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Copyright lobby targets "Pirate Bay for textbooks"
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| Finnish book rental service Bookabooka is being threatened by national
| copyright lobby organization TTVK for running a service the lobby group
| calls "Pirate Bay for textbooks".
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http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/17696.cfm
Judge Rejects Internet Archive Motion to Intervene in Google Settlement
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| A federal judge overseeing the approval process for the Google Book Search
| settlement has rejected an attempt by the Internet Archive (IA) to intervene
| in the action. In a short ruling released today, Judge Dennis Chin wrote that
| he construed the IA’s letter to the court, filed last week, as “a motion to
| intervene,” and denied it. “The proposed interveners are, however, free to
| file objections to the proposed settlement.” Objections and comments must be
| filed by May 5.
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http://www.publishersweekly.com/index.asp?layout=talkbackCommentsFull&talk_back_header_id=6597400&articleid=CA6654190
http://tinyurl.com/coa6gn
The More Things Change... The More They Stay The Same, Music Piracy Edition
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| Via Boing Boing comes this link to a NY Times article from 1897 (yes, you
| read that right, not 1987) about the struggle of the music industry
| against "pirates" (you can see the original via the NY Times site here).
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090426/1837134647.shtml
Recent:
Caving into bullies (aka, here we go again)
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| So here we go again -- How long till we can buy Alice's Adventures in
| Wonderland and be told that this book "cannot be read aloud"?
|
| But the bigger trend here is much more troubling: Innovative technology
| company (Amazon (Kindle 2), Google (Google Books)) releases new innovative
| way to access or use content; so-called "representatives" of rights owners,
| Corleone-like, baselessly insist on a cut; innovative technology company
| settles with baseless demanders, and we're all arguably worse off.
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http://www.lessig.org/blog/2009/02/caving_into_bullies_aka_here_w.html
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