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Hollywood's Favorite Lawmakers Preparing Next Level Of Draconian Copyright Laws
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| Because (of course) last year's ProIP bill that (once again) strengthened
| copyright laws wasn't enough, Hollywood's favorite lawmakers all got together
| outside of LA and complained about how copyright laws needed to be even more
| draconian. They once again quoted the same mythical stats about the damage
| done by infringement, and didn't hear from a single defender of the public or
| someone who could explain the basic fact that strengthening copyright law
| doesn't solve anything. Instead, they just complained, blamed pretty much
| every foreign country (other than France) and insisted "something must be
| done!"
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http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090406/2130244412.shtml
Copyright laws put movie night on hold
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| But the debut of Movie Night, originally set for April 18, is on hold
| indefinitely after officials learned the city must purchase a license from
| the motion picture industry before it can screen films for the public.
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http://www.news-journalonline.com/NewsJournalOnline/News/Local/newWEST05040409.htm
Rep "Hollywood" Berman calls for new IP law—using dodgy data
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| Rep. Howard Berman took his committee on the road yesterday, hearing (again)
| from directors and rightsholders about how stronger intellectual property
| laws are needed to fight piracy. But didn't they get such a bill just last
| year? And why are the numbers Berman uses either dodgy or flat-out wrong?
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http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/04/rep-howard-berman-calls-for-new-ip-law-using-dodgy-data.ars
Talk about long term copyright
http://www.againstmonopoly.org/index.php?perm=593056000000000816
Why “Three Strikes” Will Fail
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| Today you can buy a 1 Terabyte external hard disc for less than £100 – that's
| big enough to store well over a quarter of a million songs, and thousands of
| films. Bringing along such a hard disc to a party and swapping files is
| already taking place, and the “three strikes” laws will simply ensure that
| sales of high capacity discs will increase dramatically.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?blogid=14&entryid=2073
Recent:
PRS Threatens Woman For Playing Radio To Her Horses Without Paying A Licensing
Fee
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| The latest (sent in by a few folks) is that PRS has now threatened a woman
| who plays classical music to her horses in her stable to keep them calm. She
| had been turning on the local classical music station, saying that it helped
| keep the horse calm -- but PRS is demanding £99 if she wants to keep
| providing such a "public performance." And it's not just a one-off.
| Apparently a bunch of stables have been receiving such calls.
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| Obviously, this is not a case of random excessive attempts by PRS to squeeze
| more money out of people. It's become systematic. The group seems to believe
| that playing music in almost any situation now constitutes a public
| performance and requires a licensing fee. You just know they're salivating
| over the opportunity to go after people playing music in their cars with the
windows down.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090327/1113014276.shtml
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