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Protesting the Authors Guild
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| On Tuesday, April 7, the National Federation of the Blind will protest in
| front of the Authors Guild headquarters, at 31 East 32nd Street, New York
| City. The protest criticizes the Authors Guild's bullying of Amazon to get
| them to shut of the Text-to-Speech functionality on the Kindle 2. The Authors
| Guild demands that blind people wanting this added and enabling technology
| must either submit to a burdensome special registration system and prove
| their disabilities or pay extra for the text-to-speech version.
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http://www.lessig.org/blog/2009/04/protesting_the_authors_guild.html
AP Says It's Going To Sue Aggregators
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| Given some of the Associated Press's recent actions, this won't come as a
| surprise, but the AP has now announced that it will start suing any news
| aggregator that doesn't share its profits with the AP:
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| "We can no longer stand by and watch others walk off with our work under
| misguided legal theories."
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| I'm a bit curious what those "misguided theories" are... because copyright
| law and rules concerning fair use seem pretty clear, and search engines
| aggregating info and sending people to your site has been ruled fair use
| before.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090406/1515164406.shtml
Recent:
AP dumps Microsoft
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| Until now AP used Microsoft's MSN media player to distribute videos. Vole
| flogged ads alongside the material, sharing the revenue with AP.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/09/24/ap-dumps-microsoft
Hey, Warner, Leave those Kids Alone
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| Last month we reported that Warner Music Group was using YouTube’s Content
| I.D. (aka Video I.D.) tool to effectively censor myriad fair uses. We asked
| people to contact us if they needed legal help and put up a YouTube removal
| primer to give folks information about their options. As a result we’ve seen
| beautiful film montages set to music, videos to assist the hearing impaired,
| and many other examples of amazing artistic talent that have been censored by
| Warner Music.
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http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/02/hey-warner-leave-those-kids-alone
Is Anything In Shepard Fairey's Image Actually Copyrightable By The AP?
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| of copyright infringement over his iconic Barack Obama poster (Fairey
| initiated the actual lawsuit, asking for a declaratory judgment that his
| image did not infringe, but that was after the AP publicly stated they were
| going to go after him for infringement), many are looking over the legal
| issues, and examining whether or not Fairey's use is fair use. In our initial
| post on the subject, it seemed pretty obvious that it was fair use, in large
| part because the AP didn't even realize it was an AP photo until someone else
| pointed it out -- suggesting that it was a transformative work, which
| represents a big part of the "test" for fair use.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090301/1246443934.shtml
UK.gov 'to create anti-net piracy agency'
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| Following its failure to foster voluntary solution between ISPs and rights
| holders, the government will create a new agency and regulations to clamp
| down on copyright infringement via peer-to-peer networks, it's reported
| today.
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| A proposal for a body called the Rights Agency will be at the centre of
| anti-internet piracy measures, according to the Financial Times, which cited
| sources who had read a draft of Lord Carter's report on Digital Britain. The
| Rights Agency will be introduced alongside a new code of practice for ISPs
| and rights holders, to be overseen by Ofcom, according to the leaked draft.
| The final report is due out by the end of this month.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/01/16/carter_anti_piracy_agency/
Jono Bacon announces CC-licensed book project
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| Bacon says that the book, which is called Art of Community, will cover a wide
| range community-related topics, including governance, promotion, and conflict
| resolution. It will also provide real-world anecdotes to provide greater
| insight into the subject area. He aims to have the book on shelves this
| Summer and will also make it broadly available on the Internet. He plans to
| document the process and provide ongoing updates at a new web site that he
| created for the project.
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| "This book is much more than merely a textbook on building a compelling
| community. I believe that we learn how to build strong community through the
| exchange of stories and experiences," he wrote in a blog entry. "The Art Of
| Community is a compendium of stories, anecdotes and experiences inside and
| outside the Open Source world."
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http://arstechnica.com/journals/linux.ars/2009/01/15/jono-bacon-announces-cc-licensed-book-project
Taxing ISPs To Fund Newspapers?
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| In trying to explain why a music tax is a bad idea, I pointed out that if you
| start with music, you quickly have to start adding pretty much every industry
| disrupted by the internet. The obvious one is movies, but what about
| newspapers? They're struggling due to the internet, so why can't they demand
| an ISP tax to support newspapers? The idea, of course, is that this was a
| ludicrous suggestion... but apparently some people have thought seriously
| about it.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090105/0129403284.shtml
Internet Filtering Appearing On Various Wishlists For Obama
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| It's tough to get that worked up about the various "wishlists" being sent by
| different interest groups to President-elect Obama. After all, you'd expect
| the groups to basically push for their entire agenda, and there's no
| indication that an Obama administration will agree to any of these -- but
| it's still worth watching. For example, the MPAA's wishlist includes plenty
| of forced filtering and a "three strikes" policy that Europe recently
| rejected as taking away basic human rights (there's that MPAA spirit!).
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20081210/1826113082.shtml
Internet Censors Must Be Accountable For The Things They Break
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| Censorship technologies are purveyed as a way to protect us from the evils of
| child abuse. But they're costly systems that are unlikely to actually protect
| anyone or prevent any child abuse — they're more likely to interfere with the
| way the Internet works and hamper innovation by online communities.
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http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/12/internet-censors-must-be-accountable-things-they-b
Labor plan to censor internet in shreds
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| The Government's plan to censor the internet is in tatters, with Australia's
| largest ISP saying it will not take part in live trials of the system and the
| second largest committing only to a scaled-back trial.
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| And the Communications Minister, Stephen Conroy, has written to critics
| saying that the so-called "live" trials would be "a closed network test and
| will not involve actual customers". Greens Senator Scott Ludlam said this was
| a sign the Government was slowly backing away from the heavily criticised
| policy.
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http://www.theage.com.au/news/home/technology/labor-plan-to-censor-internet-in-shreds/2008/12/09/1228584820006.html
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