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[News] America Uses Political Extortion for Copyrights, RMS Advocates Free Content

  • Subject: [News] America Uses Political Extortion for Copyrights, RMS Advocates Free Content
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 13:41:32 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
U.S. to Russia: Allofmp3.com closes door on your WTO chances

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| Meanwhile, Russia's hopes of entering the WTO by the end of the year are 
| evaporating. Think of the WTO as an exclusive club, one that Russia 
| desperately wants to join.  
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http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9768658-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20

More recent examples of extortion at the bottom.

RMS on the ethics of non-free art

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| Within that context we can characterize the Free Culture movement not so much 
| as a movement for restoring a certain state of ethics (in the same sense as a 
| Free Software movement), but a state of balance that can benefit culture more 
| than restrictions. However, perhaps more than anything else it is a movement 
| against the copyright extremes supported by the big entertainment industry.    
| 
| Elsewhere Richard has mentioned that the minimal freedom everyone should have 
| with digital works is non-commercial sharing. Current default draconian 
| copyrights don't allow even that much.  
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http://www.libervis.com/article/rms_on_the_ethics_of_non_free_art


Related:

Music industry attacks Sunday newspaper's free Prince CD

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| The eagerly awaited new album by Prince is being launched as a free
| CD with a national Sunday newspaper in a move that has drawn
| widespread criticism from music retailers.
|
| The Mail on Sunday revealed yesterday that the 10-track Planet
| Earth CD will be available with an "imminent" edition, making it
| the first place in the world to get the album. Planet Earth will go
| on sale on July 24.
|
| "It's all about giving music for the masses and he believes in
| spreading the music he produces to as many people as possible,"
| said Mail on Sunday managing director Stephen Miron. "This is the
| biggest innovation in newspaper promotions in recent times."
|
| The paper, which sells more than 2m copies a week, will be ramping
| up its print run in anticipation of a huge spike in circulation but
| would not reveal how much the deal with Prince would cost.
|
| One music store executive described the plan as "madness" while
| others said it was a huge insult to an industry battling fierce
| competition from supermarkets and online stores. Prince's label has
| cut its ties with the album in the UK to try to appease music
| stores.
|
| The Entertainment Retailers Association said the giveaway "beggars
| belief". "It would be an insult to all those record stores who have
| supported Prince throughout his career," ERA co-chairman Paul Quirk
| told a music conference. "It would be yet another example of the
| damaging covermount culture which is destroying any perception of
| value around recorded music.
|
| "The Artist Formerly Known as Prince should know that with
| behaviour like this he will soon be the Artist Formerly Available
| in Record Stores. And I say that to all the other artists who may
| be tempted to dally with the Mail on Sunday."
|
| High street music giant HMV was similarly scathing about the plans.
| Speaking before rumours of a giveaway were confirmed, HMV chief
| executive Simon Fox said: "I think it would be absolutely nuts. I
| can't believe the music industry would do it to itself. I simply
| can't believe it would happen; it would be absolute madness."
|
| Prince, whose Purple Rain sold more than 11m copies, also plans to
| give away a free copy of his latest album with tickets for his
| forthcoming concerts in London. The singer had signed a global deal
| for the promotion and distribution of Planet Earth in partnership
| with Columbia Records, a division of music company Sony BMG. A
| spokesman for the group said last night that the UK arm of Sony BMG
| had withdrawn from Prince's global deal and would not distribute
| the album to UK stores.
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http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,2114557,00.html


Net radio "compromise" hinged on DRM adoption

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| As we reported Friday, the looming royalty crunch on Internet radio that 
| would have begun today (July 15) was narrowly averted last week by a 
| temporary reprieve from SoundExchange. Now it appears that a lasting 
| compromise is indeed possible, but such a compromise will likely mean 
| mandatory DRM (Digital Rights Management) for Internet radio.    
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070715-net-radio-compromise-hinged-on-drm-adoption.html


Mom Sues Universal Music for DMCA Abuse

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| The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed suit today against Universal 
| Music Publishing Group (UMPG), asking a federal court to protect the fair use 
| and free speech rights of a mother who posted a short video of her toddler 
| son dancing to a Prince song on the Internet.   
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http://www.linuxelectrons.com/news/general/10869/mom-sues-universal-music-dmca-abuse


An Oregon Woman's Lawsuit against the RIAA, Alleging Racketeering and Malicious
Prosecution

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| however, that the RIAA is, at a minimum, very foolish to press suits 
| for purported file-sharing against unlikely defendants like Andersen - 
| who alleges that she came forward with solid proof of her innocence.
`----

http://writ.news.findlaw.com/ramasastry/20070628.html


Grandmother targets RIAA ‘investigators’

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| Taking a page out of Tanya Andersen’s book, Hurricane Rita survivor 
| Rhonda Crain is also targeting the RIAA practice of using
| unlicensed ‘investigators’ in its bizarre sue ‘em all marketing 
| campaign.
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http://www.p2pnet.net/story/12674


Class Action Initiated Against RIAA

,----[ Quote ]
| The amended complaint seeking class action status (PDF) sues for negligence, 
| fraud, negligent misrepresentation, federal and state RICO, abuse of process, 
| malicious prosecution, intentional infliction of emotional distress, 
| violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, trespass, invasion of privacy, 
| libel and slander, deceptive business practices, misuse of copyright law, and 
| civil conspiracy.     
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http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/17/1728225&from=rss

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