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Speak now, Mr. Conyers, or withdraw this embarrassment of a bill
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| On the Huffington Post, Mike Eisen and I have asked Mr. Conyers to respond to
| the calls that he withdraw the embarrassing, anti-open access HR 801 (aka,
| the Fair Copyright in Research Works Act).
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http://www.lessig.org/blog/2009/03/speak_now_mr_conyers_or_withdr.html
A Reply to Larry Lessig
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-conyers/a-reply-to-larry-lessig_b_172642.html
Recent:
John Conyers and Open Access
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| The "open access movement" was born to create an alternative to this. Even if
| restrictive copyright was a necessary evil in the days of dead-tree-based
| publishing, it was still an evil. High costs restrict access. The business
| model of the scientist is to spread his or her knowledge as widely as
| possible. Open access journals, such as, for example, those created by the
| Public Library of Science, have adopted a different publishing model, to
| guarantee that all all research is freely accessible online (under the freest
| Creative Commons license) immediately, to anyone around the world. This
| guarantee of access, however, is not purchased by any compromise in academic
| standards. There is still a peer-review process. There is still even a
| paper-based publication.
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http://www.lessig.org/blog/2009/03/john_conyers_and_open_access.html
Crowd-sourcing a "fair use" case
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| As mentioned, the Fair Use Project at Stanford's CIS is representing Shepard
| Fairey in his suit against the AP. To that end, we'd be grateful for some
| net-based knowledge. How many photos are there "like" the beautiful
| photograph that Mannie Garcia took (the one on the left; the one on the right
| is a CC licensed photo taken by Steve Jurvetson)?
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http://www.lessig.org/blog/2009/02/crowd-sourcing_a_fair_use_case.html
activism down under
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| The anger and activism at a rule in New Zealand requiring Internet service be
| terminated upon a mere accusation of copyright infringement is growing.
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http://www.lessig.org/blog/2009/02/activism_down_under.html
AP Demands Money For Iconic Obama Poster Image
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| Just last week, we wrote about the question of whether or not the iconic
| image used on Obama posters that was created by street artist Shepard Fairey
| was copyright infringement. For a while, no one (including Fairey) could
| figure out what photo was the basis for the image. But a photojournalist
| tracked it down, and discovered it was by a photojournalist named Mannie
| Garcia, who was doing work for the Associated Press at the time. Garcia
| didn't mind at all, but as we noted in our post, the AP might take a
| different view on things, since it's so aggressive with copyright. However,
| even we thought the AP wouldn't be so stupid as to actually demand payment
| for the use of the image... but we were wrong.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090204/1747283650.shtml
Stanford Takes Up Case Against AP
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| Okay, maybe not Congress just yet. But fresh on the heels of Harvard Law
| taking it to the RIAA over the recording industry’s litigation scare tactics
| against the nation’s universities and assumed pirate students. When the best
| profs at Harvard Law come after you, you know you’re in big, big trouble.
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| The AP is facing similar intimidating opposition from the other coast, this
| time from Stanford Law and San Francisco-based Durie Tangri Lemley Roberts &
| Kent, who just filed a lawsuit against the Associated Press. The suit seeks a
| declaration from the court that Shepard Fairey’s artistic transformation of
| an AP photograph of Barack Obama is fair use. The suit also seeks an
| injunction against the AP from further action against Fairey or anyone else
| using or displaying his work—perhaps like the Smithsonian, at the moment.
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http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2009/02/09/stanford-takes-up-case-against-ap
Directors Admit They 'Steal' Ideas... But Most People Recognize That As
Inspiration
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| Jon Lawrence points us to an article in Variety where a bunch of movie
| directors admit that they often look to other movies for ideas to "steal" in
| making their own movies. Of course, they don't really mean "steal."
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090203/0304073621.shtml
AP Gets It Wrong Again: Wants To Restrict Certain Reports To 500 Words
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| It's not difficult to see what's going on here. The AP is trying to be
| more "bloggy." Shorter, more attention grabbing pieces? Apparently, it's
| decided that people online only want to read the quick hits on salacious
| stories. Of course, despite what some may
| think, that's not really true.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20081201/0315542987.shtml
Related:
What's Fair Use, Anyway? AP Has a Thought, and So Do I
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| Now that AP has purported to establish fair use guidelines that would make 5
| words licensable as not fair use, I thought I'd explain a bit about fair
| use and about why Groklaw no longer will link to or quote from any AP
| articles. I've seen reports that AP has backed off in some not quite
| clear-to-me way, but I notice their list of fees remains online.
|
| [...]
|
| And that is why Groklaw no longer will quote from or link to AP, and I'd ask
| you not to do so in your comments either. I can't pay $50 a pop, and I don't
| like being sued, even though I'm positive the 5 words guideline would fail. I
| think you've seen how horrible litigation really is, from watching the SCO
| saga, so do go along with this decision, please. Nothing AP has is worth this
| kind of hassle.
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080622144323977
The Cost of Excerpting the AP
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| It's priced by the word, and using a 5- to 25-word excerpt costs $12.50 with
| a 251-word or longer excerpt costing a ridiculous $100.
|
| This ordeal reminds me a lot of the fight against piracy. No matter how much
| the AP tries, it will never be able to curtail the entire blogosphere, just
| as the RIAA will never be able to completely eliminate piracy. The big
| question remains: Will the AP's reputation begin to resemble that of the
| RIAA?
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http://blogs.pcworld.com/staffblog/archives/007122.html
Associated Press expects you to pay to license 5-word quotations (and reserves
the right to terminate your license)
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| In the name of "defin[ing] clear standards as to how much of its articles and
| broadcasts bloggers and Web sites can excerpt" the Associated Press is now
| selling "quotation licenses" that allow bloggers, journallers, and people who
| forward quotations from articles to co-workers to quote their articles. The
| licenses start at $12.50 for quotations of 5-25 words. The licensing system
| exhorts you to snitch on people who publish without paying the blood-money,
| offering up to $1 million in reward money (they also think that "fair use" --
| the right to copy without permission -- means "Contact the owner of the work
| to be sure you are covered under fair use.").
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http://www.boingboing.net/2008/06/17/associated-press-exp.html
New Zealand Goes Black
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| The previous government in New Zealand enacted an amendment to the Copyright
| Act that required ISPs to have a policy to disconnect users after repeated
| accusations of infringement, over the objections of technologists.
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http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/02/new-zealand-goes-black.html
RIAA lies exposed
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| THE RIAA HAS BEEN OUTED as a lying toad as it claimed in a letter sent out on
| December 23rd last year that it was discontinuing lawsuits when in fact, this
| was simply not the case.
|
| Mitch Bainwol’s letter to the Congressional Committees claimed that the
| Recording Industry Association of America "discontinued initiating new
| lawsuits in August."
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http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/869/1050869/riaa-lies-exposed
RIAA and BSA's Favorite Lawyers Taking Top Department of Justice Posts
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| RIAA-fan Biden's influence in the Obama administration may be larger than
| anticipated, at least when it comes to file sharing: His good pals with RIAA
| and BSA connections keep getting Department of Justice's seats.
|
| According to CNET, "President Obama is continuing to fill the senior ranks of
| the U.S. Department of Justice with the copyright industry's favorite
| lawyers" with the selection of Donald Verrilli, from the Verrilli Family, el
| Señor Presidente's latest acquisition.
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http://i.gizmodo.com/5146966/riaa-and-bsas-favorite-lawyers-taking-top-department-of-justice-posts
Obama names Doerr, Phillips to economic board
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| Two Silicon Valley leaders have been appointed by President Obama to a
| 16-person committee that's charged with offering economic advice during what
| has become an unusually sharp and deep recession.
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| John Doerr, the billionaire venture capitalist at Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield
| & Byers, is one. Doerr was involved in funding companies including Google,
| Amazon.com, Sun Microsystems, and Cypress Semiconductor; he currently serves
| on the board of companies including Amazon and Google and has recently turned
| his attention to green tech.
|
| Charles Phillips, the president of Oracle, is another. Phillips became
| president in May 2003 and previously was with Morgan Stanley's Institutional
| Securities Division. He's a Linux aficionado and said in 2005: "On demand is
| the future of software for many years to come and we are building it on
| Linux."
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10158505-38.html
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