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New York Supreme Court Rejects EMI's Bid to Enjoin Expelled
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| Two months ago, a Manhattan federal court rejected Yoko Ono Lennon's attempt
| to enjoin the further showing and distribution of Expelled: No Intelligence
| allowed on the ground that film used fifteen seconds of the John Lennon song
| Imagine.
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http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/node/5833
UK ISP Music Deal Only Sounds Reasonable
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| This is a fundamental crisis. When the government ignores the law designed to
| protect the citizens from the government and teams up with behemoth
| corporations who have no obligation or incentive to follow it either, the
| citizen is left with nothing and becomes a victim of two exponentially larger
| abusers; the citizen becomes a pawn in a game of power and greed.
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http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2008/08/13/uk-isp-music-deal-only-sounds-reasonable
Who owns the Internet?
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| The most important threat comes from infrastructure owners — mainly the phone
| and cable duopoly. It started with the throttling of BitTorrent, a service
| many open source projects depend on for distribution, to protect their video
| monopolies.
|
| Now, in a response to the FCC ruling that throttling is illegal, they’re
| talking about metered pricing, which is bound to limit usage.
|
| None of this would be possible if consumers had choices in the market, but
| over the last decade the U.S. government has helped create, and then endorsed
| this duopoly.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=2778
The usual corruption <
http://lessig.org/blog/2008/07/netroots_nation_keynote.html >.
Recent:
Recording Industry Decries AM-FM Broadcasting as 'A Form of Piracy'
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| But now the debate is getting meaner; there's more at stake as the recording
| industry seeks new income avenues in the wake of wanton peer-to-peer piracy
| and declining CD sales in part due to the iPod and satellite radio. A U.S.
| House subcommittee could vote as early as Thursday on a royalty measure.
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http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/06/recording-indus.html
Lessig: Don't fall into the four-year trap
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| On a massive display screen, he loaded up a portrait of legendary New England
| statesman and eventual Secretary of State Daniel Webster, whose professional
| conflicts of interest would have been enough to make even the most lukewarm
| of political bloggers cringe.
|
| "Bribery wasn't even a crime in our Congress until 1853. The 19th century was
| a cesspool of this kind of corruption," Lessig explained. "Up to 25 percent
| of the voters literally sold their votes. I'm not talking about a golden
| past."
|
| [...]
|
| And then there's the big one: global warming, and the "junk science" research
| put forth at the behest of the oil industry.
|
| "Just putting money on the table removes the conditions of trust," Lessig
| said. "Money destroys the opportunity for trust. Eighty-eight percent of the
| people in my district believe they have their votes bought."
|
| [...]
|
| He left his role as founder and CEO of copyright reform advocacy group
| Creative Commons in April to focus on Change Congress.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-9975958-36.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Global Warming Twenty Years Later: Tipping Points Near
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| My presentation today is exactly 20 years after my June 23, 1988, testimony
| to Congress, which alerted the public that global warming was underway. There
| are striking similarities between then and now, but one big difference.
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http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/008149.html
Related:
RIAA, MPAA urge pro-copyright vows from presidential candidates
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| One question, for instance, asks: "How would you promote the progress of
| science and creativity, as enumerated in the U.S. Constitution, by upholding
| and strengthening copyright law and preventing its diminishment?"
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http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9821141-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
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