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Musician: Any Aspiring Musician Should Download As Much Music As He Can
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| It's also a point highlighted by musician David Hahn, writing a response to a
| mother concerned about her son file sharing. She sent in a note to The
| Working Musician, a blog by and for working musicians, saying that her son
| file shares, and she wants him to stop, saying that he would feel differently
| if it was his music being shared. Hahn replies, however, by telling her that
| he feels exactly the opposite: and that her son should download as much music
| as possible...
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090808/1102485812.shtml
No, A Jury In A Trial Is Not A Representative Sample Of Views On Copyright
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| Over the years, I've found that most people who don't pay much attention to
| these things believe that story of copyrights and patents being the "root
| cause" of American creativity and innovation. It's a fable that sounds so
| good as youngsters, and why not? Yet, when you talk to such folks one on one
| or in small groups, and start going through the real details... and when you
| explain to them how copyright is used to stifle speech and innovation, and
| when you show them the new and unique business models that don't rely on
| copyright, they recognize the issue. When you finally show them the
| evidence -- the studies upon studies about the harm done by such things, it's
| not hard for them to realize that there's a real problem with copyright laws,
| and that problem isn't the fact that some kids aren't paying for downloads.
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| The only people I've found who resist such things are those whose own income
| in some way depends on exploiting copyright for their own advantage.
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http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090807/0207275797.shtml
Project EquillibRIAA
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| For the last few years Iâve talked quietly of a project to connect artists
| with the victims of lawsuits in the name of their bands. After the verdict
| handed down by the latest case of Sony vs. Tenenbaum I think it is time to
| put this plan to action. Iâve emailed Joel and received a list of the bands
| he was sued for and what Iâd like to do is draw national attention to the
| public interfaces these bands have set up for themselves.
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http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/zeroday/2009/08/05/project-equillibria/
Team Tenenbaum to fight on for those "RIAA has screwed over"
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| Ars Technica talks to the Joel Tenenbaum defense team about their plans to
| keep fighting the case, why they refused to settle, and their hope to file a
| class-action lawsuit against the RIAA in the future.
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http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/08/charlie-nesson-still-fights-for-those-riaa-has-screwed-over.ars
Recent:
A Band That Knows Where the Money Comes From
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| Chester French isnât your typical rock band. Singer D.A. Wallach and
| multi-instrumentalist Max Drummey met as freshmen at Harvard, where lanky,
| longhaired Drummey majored in social anthropology and twee, preppy Wallach
| graduated as the top student in the schoolâs African-American Studies
| program. In the video for their best-known song, âShe Loves Everybody,â a
| pretty girl punches the stuffing out of the two helpless weaklings, leaving
| them bloody-nosed among their broken guitars and drums.
|
| [....]
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| Instead of giving interviews to reporters or dropping by radio stations,
| Wallach spends most of his time online, going through an average 100 to 200
| e-mail messages a day. âWe respond to every single e-mail we get,â he
| said. âI do an hour in the morning and an hour at night.
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http://gadgetwise.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/29/a-band-that-knows-where-the-money-comes-from/
Should You Really Need a License to Run a Video Arcade?
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| In light of these concerns, I fail to see why Amherst or any other city
| should be in the business of licensing video arcades. And even if they are
| doing so for tax purposes, they shouldnât be using that power to censor
| arcade games or shutting down businesses that offer such games.
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http://techliberation.com/2009/08/03/should-you-really-need-a-license-to-run-a-video-arcade/
What A Job: Making Sure No Brands Appear In A Movie
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| What a stupendous waste of time, money and resources. But it shows what a
| ridiculous society we've created, where intellectual property law means that
| you can't have a McDonald's appear anywhere in the background in a movie. I'm
| sure that's exactly what our founding fathers were concerned about when they
| put in place the constitutional clause about "promoting the progress."
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090731/0319025726.shtml
RIAA Brief Attacks Free Software Foundation
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| In their proposed response, the RIAA lawyers personally attacked The Free
| Software Foundation, Ray Beckerman (NewYorkCountryLawyer), and NYCL's
| blog, 'Recording Industry vs. The People'. The 9-page response (PDF) â 4
| pages longer than the document to which it was responding â termed the FSF an
| organization 'dedicated to eliminating restrictions on copying,
| redistribution, and modifying computer programs', and accused the FSF of
| having an 'open and virulent bias against copyrights' and 'blatant bias'
| against the record companies.
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http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/21/2041241&from=rss
RIAA publicly humiliates judge Nancy Gertner
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| Hired RIAA attack lawyers Timothy Reynolds (Holme Roberts & Owen) and Daniel
| Cloherty Â(Dwyer & Collora) apparently think itâs perfectly acceptable to
| tell a judge to take a hike.
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http://www.p2pnet.net/story/18787
Joe Biden promises a blank check to the entertainment cartel
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| VP Joe Biden stood up in front of a bunch of Hollywood execs and promised to
| appoint a copyright czar, and furthermore, that this would be the "right"
| person to protect their interests. I would have voted Dem in the last
| election, if I got a vote, but make no mistakes: the Dems are the party of
| stupid copyright laws.
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http://www.boingboing.net/2009/04/22/joe-biden-promises-a.html
Administration Lobbyist Ban Not Doing What It's Supposed To Do
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| We've already seen how the Justice Department is, for example, being filled
| with lawyers who regularly worked with the RIAA, MPAA and BSA -- three of the
| biggest copyright lobbying organizations, and those individuals have wasted
| no time in expressing their desire to continue pushing those industry's
| viewpoints in their new positions.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090422/0419234608.shtml
Copyright debate heats up over Obama appointments
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| The president has, in fact, filled out some high-level Justice Department
| positions with lawyers favored by the copyright industry, including attorneys
| who have represented the Recording Industry Association of America and the
| Business Software Alliance. The signatories of the April 2 letter said the
| Justice Department's intervention last month in favor of a record label in a
| file-sharing case heightens their concern.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10223549-38.html
Biden promises 'right person' as new U.S. copyright czar
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| "It's pure theft, stolen from the artists and quite frankly from the American
| people as consequence of loss of jobs and as a consequence of loss of
| income," Biden said, according to a White House pool report.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10224689-38.html
MPAA reaches out to lawmakers
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| The occasion: the second biennial summit sponsored by the industry's chief
| lobbying arm, the Motion Picture Assn. of America.
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http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118002688.html?categoryId=18&cs=1
I got you, babe
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| Obama is whistling the music industry's tune
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http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/apr/15/i-got-you-babe-obama-is-whistling-the-music-indust/
Obama Taps 5th RIAA Lawyer to Justice Dept.
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| President Barack Obama is tapping another RIAA attorney into the Justice
| Department.
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| Monday's naming of Ian Gershengorn, to become the department's deputy
| assistant attorney of the Civil Division, comes more than a week after nearly
| two-dozen public interest groups, trade pacts and library coalitions urged
| the new president to quit filling his administration with lawyers plucked
| from the Recording Industry Association of America.
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| The move makes it five RIAA lawyers Obama has appointed to the Justice
| Department.
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http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2009/04/obama-taps-fift.html
Obama administration sides with RIAA in P2P suit
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| The Obama administration has sided with the recording industry in a copyright
| lawsuit against an alleged peer-to-peer pirate, a move that echoes arguments
| previously made by the Bush administration.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10201831-38.html
Obama Sides With RIAA, Supports $150,000 Fine per Music Track
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2009/03/obama-sides-wit.html
U.S. Sides with RIAA in Filesharing Case
http://legalblogwatch.typepad.com/legal_blog_watch/2009/03/us-sides-with-riaa-in-filesharing-case.html
Obama Administration Claims Copyright Treaty Involves State Secrets?!?
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| When the Obama administration took over, there was a public stance that this
| administration was going to be more transparent -- especially with regards to
| things like Freedom of Information Act requests. The nonprofit group
| Knowledge Ecology International took that to heart and filed an FOIA request
| to get more info on ACTA. The US Trade Representative's Office responded
| denying the request, saying that the information was "classified in the
| interest of national security pursuant to Executive Order 12958." This is a
| treaty about changing copyright law, not sending missiles somewhere. To claim
| that it's a national security matter is just downright scary. As KEI points
| out, the text of the documents requested have been available to tons of
| people, including more than 30 governments around the world and lobbyists
| from the entertainment industry, pharma industry and publishing industry.
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http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090313/1456154113.shtml
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.
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| 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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