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U.S. FCC examining broadcasters in music fee row
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| U.S. regulators have launched an inquiry into whether certain broadcasters
| are refusing to air the music of artists who demand to be paid when their
| songs are played on the radio.
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| The Federal Communications Commission reviewed a June petition by a music
| coalition that accuses radio stations of skipping songs of artists who
| support legislation aimed at paying royalties to artists.
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| According to an official notice dated on Friday, the agency is seeking public
| comment on the petition until Sept. 23. The FCC customarily seeks comment on
| proposals for new or amended rules, but petitions received on a wide variety
| of subjects are also published for public comment.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/rbssConsumerGoodsAndRetailNews/idUSN1046130820090810
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.
|
| [....]
|
| 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.
|
| 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.
|
| 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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