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Copyfraud: Poisoning the public domain
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| The public domain is the greatest resource in human history: eventually all
| knowledge will become part of it. Its riches serve all mankind, but it faces
| a new threat. Vast libraries of public domain works are being plundered by
| claims of "copyright". It's called copyfraud - and we'll discover how large
| corporations like Google, Yahoo, and Amazon have structured their businesses
| to assist it and profit from it.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/06/26/copyfraud/
How the Canadian copyright lobby uses fakes, fronts, and circular references to
subvert the debate on copyright
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| After closely watching the way that the Canadian copyright debate has
| proceeded (from a new copyright bill drafted in secret and off-limits to
| input by Canadian artists, librarians, ISPs and scholars; to a
| plagiarized "independent" report that used faked-up research and US
| lobby-group talking-points to "prove" Canada's copyright pariah statement),
| Michael Geist has created this handy chart showing how the copyright lobby in
| Canada uses a variety of fronts to subvert the legislative process.
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http://www.boingboing.net/2009/06/24/how-the-canadian-cop.html
Recent:
Harvard Study Finds Weaker Copyright Protection Has Benefited Society
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| Economists Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Koleman Strumpf have just released a new
| Harvard Business School working paper called File Sharing and Copyright that
| raises some important points about file sharing, copyright, and the net
| benefits to society.
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http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/4062/125/
US Copyright Law, King Lear, and Jammie Thomas-Rasset
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| If the current US Copyright Law had been in effect over Shakespeare, I think
| he could have been sued by many authors for copyright infringement for
| writing that masterpiece.
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20090621124054133
Yet Another Study Shows That Weaker Copyright Benefits Everyone
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| Economists Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Koleman Strumpf have written some
| previous papers on this subject, but they've just come out with a new working
| paper on how weaker copyright protection benefits society (pdf file). Michael
| Geist has an excellent overview and summary of the paper. To understand the
| key points made by the paper, you need to understand the purpose of
| copyright -- something that many people are confused about. It's always been
| about creating incentives to create new works.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090617/1138185267.shtml
750,000 lost jobs? The dodgy digits behind the war on piracy
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| First, the estimate of 750,000 jobs lost. (Is that supposed to be per year? A
| cumulative total over some undefined span? Those who cite the figure seldom
| say.) Customs is most often given as the source for this, and indeed, you can
| find press releases from as recently as 2002 giving that figure as a U.S.
| Customs and Border Patrol estimate. Eureka! But when we contacted CBP to
| determine how they had arrived at that imposing figure, we were informed that
| it was, in essence, a goof. The figure, Customs assured us, came from
| somewhere else, and was mistakenly described as the agency's own. This should
| come as no great surprise: CBP is an enforcement agency, whereas calculating
| the total loss of jobs from IP infringement would require some terrifyingly
| complex counterfactual modeling by trained economists. Similar claims have
| appeared in Customs releases dating back at least to 1993, but a CBP
| spokesperson assured us that the agency has never been in the business of
| developing such estimates in-house.
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http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture/dodgy-digits-behind-the-war-on-piracy.ars
Harvard professor challenges RIAA anti-piracy campaign
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| A Harvard law professor has opened a new front in the battle between the
| Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and alleged music pirates by
| challenging the constitutionality of a statute being used by the industry
| group to bring lawsuits against alleged copyright violators.
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=537633690&rid=-50
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