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Open source proponents are for strong copyright protection
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| Open source proponents get a bad rap when it comes to copyright. Often, they
| are called anti-copyright or copyleft. On some level, it makes sense. Open
| source software is advertised as being free as in freedom, and free as in
| free beer. Yet, when thinking about copyright law and restrictions, the last
| word that comes to mind is free. However, open source proponents are not
| actually anti-copyright. Think about it… They can't be. Copyleft or open
| source could not exist without copyright. Open source is actually a world
| away from what would truly be free in the world of IP, and that's the public
| domain.
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http://ipswhatsup.blogspot.com/2008/11/open-source-proponents-are-for-strong.html
Recent:
MGM to Post Full Films on YouTube
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| YouTube has also developed a system called VideoID. It allows media companies
| to spot unauthorized clips of their material on the site, and then either
| remove the clips or leave them up and sell ads on them.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/10/business/media/10mgm.html?hp
Cory Doctorow: Why I Copyfight
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| Why does all this copyright reform stuff matter, anyway? What's at stake?
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| Everything.
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| Until a very short time ago, copyright was an industrial regulation. If you
| fell under copyright's domain, it meant that you were using a piece of
| extraordinary industrial apparatus — a printing press, a motion-picture
| camera, a record press. The cost of this apparatus was significant, so adding
| a couple hundred bucks for the services of a skilled copyright attorney to
| the deal wasn't much of a hardship. It merely tacked a couple percentage
| points of overhead onto the cost of doing business.
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http://www.locusmag.com/Features/2008/11/cory-doctorow-why-i-copyfight.html
Presidential Election Voting Machines Violate Copyrights, Suit Claims
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| Artifex Software, of San Rafael, Calif., claims that PES systems infringe on
| its copyrighted Ghostscript PFD interpretation and printing software. Artifex
| claims PES is using Ghostscript in its electronic election systems even
| though Diebold and PES "have not been granted a license to modify, copy, or
| distribute any of Artifex's copyrighted works," Artifex claims in court
| papers filed late last month in U.S. District Court for Northern California.
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http://www.informationweek.com/news/management/legal/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=212000374
Music stars unite to seek control
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| UK pop and rock stars are taking action to try to gain ownership and control
| of their work from record labels.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7652053.stm
British Government Violates Copyright
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| As much as I utterly despise the entire premise of Intellectual Monopoly,
| this is about violating the principles of a Free License, and if it's good
| enough for the British government to violate our civil rights in the name of
| Intellectual Monopoly, then it's good enough for the Free World to protect
| its "property" (in fact Freedom) too…
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http://slated.org/british_government_violates_copyright
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