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Everyone Assumes Copyright Only Applies When They Like It
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| While some claim it's just hypocrisy, I think it actually represents one of
| the fundamental flaws of copyright itself (or, really, any monopoly system).
| Monopolies aren't being used to create incentives to create. They're used to
| stifle others and to "protect." These days, almost everyone uses them and
| views them as tools of protection rather than an incentive to create. When
| you get so far away from the entire purpose of copyright law, you have a
| system ripe for widespread abuse.
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http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090508/1921274794.shtml
Big Content's "theater of the absurd" at DMCA hearings
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| Fireworks exploded last week as the government's four days of hearings on
| possible DMCA exemptions wrapped up. Rightsholders "insult us by treating us
| as potential infringers who can't be trusted to use a technology any 12-year
| old can download from the Internet," said one lawyer.
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http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/05/big-contents-theater-of-the-absurd-at-dmca-hearing.ars
Recent:
update on Warner Music (UPDATED) (AGAIN)
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| Received a notice that Warner Music had objected to its being posted on
| copyright grounds. Apparently, YouTube's content-ID algorithm had found music
| in the video that they claimed ownership to. The organization is apparently
| responding by disputing the claim. I'll report back when I hear more.
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http://www.lessig.org/blog/2009/04/update_on_warner_music.html
YouTube Restores A Fair Use
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| Here's what's different about this takedown: NOM's lawyer asked YouTube to
| restore the video immediately, rather than keeping it off-line for the
| standard 10-14 business day counternotice period. And YouTube, after doing
| its own fair use analysis, agreed and obliged.
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http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/05/youtube-restores
No Musicians Have Ever Been Guaranteed To Make Money Selling Music
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| Every musician has numerous business models at his or her disposal to get
| fair compensation for their work. There's no need for Congress to get
| involved. What Ratner seems to be saying is that her musicians don't want
| fair compensation -- they want guaranteed, gov't-backed compensation. In
| other words, she seems to think the government should be providing welfare
| for musicians. If that's what you believe, then fine, defend why musicians
| deserve welfare. But don't claim that musicians have ever been "guaranteed"
| compensation.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090505/0148394749.shtml
CNN makes copyright claim on video critical of reporter's 'Tea Party'
interviews; a clear case of fair use?
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| CNN has sent YouTube a DMCA takedown notice on a video critical of a CNN
| reporter for her coverage of a "Tea Party" protest -- a video that appears to
| be a clear case of a non-infringing fair use.
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http://copyrightsandcampaigns.blogspot.com/2009/04/cnn-makes-copyright-claim-on-video.html
CNN Follows Fox News In Using DMCA To Take Down Fair Use Videos
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| The "liberal" CNN has filed a DMCA notice to have video taken down that was
| being used by a conservative blog for commentary purposes -- again, almost
| certainly fair use. Also, it sounds like some of the video footage that CNN
| demanded be taken down wasn't even filmed by CNN, suggesting they don't hold
| the copyright on it.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090418/1702514549.shtml
Shepard Fairey Challenges AP Copyright by Jonathan Hunter
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| By all accounts, President Barack Obama’s road to the Oval Office was one
| replete with firsts. For example, the 2008 presidential campaign marked the
| first time many had heard of Los Angeles street artist Shepard Fairey.
| Fairey’s stylized poster of Obama—which bears the Obama campaign
| watchword, "hope"— became a symbol of Obama’s candidacy among many
| supporters. Now that image has landed Fairey in a legal battle with the
| Associated Press, which claims that Fairey’s poster infringes on its
| copyright to a 2006 photograph. On Feb. 9th of this year, Fairey fired back,
| seeking a declaratory judgment that his poster of Obama does not infringe on
| any AP copyrights.
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http://htmltimes.com/shepard-fairey-challenges-ap-copyright.php
Using The DMCA To Stop Patients From Rating Their Doctors
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| Of course, it does bring up a few interesting points of discussion. First, is
| that the main purpose of using copyright here is so that the doctors can make
| use of the DMCA's notice-and-takedown safe harbor provisions, rather than be
| stymied by the similar (but not quite the same) CDA section 230 safe harbors
| for things like defamation.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090328/1445494290.shtml
AP Attempts to Shut Bloggers Out
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| For a while now, the AP has had been fighting this insane war against
| bloggers who quote and use snippets of their articles in blog posts. About a
| year or so ago the AP decided they would try to charge bloggers and other
| sites $2.50 cents per word and threatened to sue anyone who did not comply
| with their dumb “copyright” scheme. The latest bright idea down at
| Dinosaurs ‘R Us is to try to create a copyrighted search engine like system
| for copyrighted works in order to some how track what is out there.
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http://www.rightpundits.com/?p=3674
Court: Congress can't put public domain back into copyright
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| A federal court ruled on Friday that Congress overstepped its authority back
| in 1994 when it put some public domain foreign works back under copyright
| protection. Such a move changes the "traditional contours of copyright" in
| the US, even if done to bring the country in line with its treaty
| obligations.
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http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/04/court-congress-cant-put-public-domain-back-into-copyright.ars
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
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.
|
| [...]
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| 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
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