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Interview With William Patry: Understanding How The Copyright Debate Got
Twisted
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| I think that is no more valid a response than those who offered by
| filesharers who argue that its OK for them to do what they are doing because
| the labels screw the artists. Not only does iTunes refute the idea that
| people just want free stuff, but look at what happened in January of this
| year when Monty Python started a YouTube channel and gave away free streams
| of their stuff: their DVD sales on Amazon.com went up 23,000% (not a typo).
| Here's another example. My wife owns a cafe. She makes espresso there and the
| guy who makes it used to work at Starbucks. I obviously can get espresso for
| free there. But I don't, I drive two miles away to a Starbucks store and pay
| $2.01 for it because I like the way it tastes.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090823/1538545965.shtml
Tall Pay Walls May Limit Community Access to Information
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| A number of commentators, led by blogger Alan Mutter, have noted lately that
| the paid online content bandwagon seems to be stalling into a lot of talk and
| not much action. But what if newspapers rally and act in unison to make much
| of what they offer online available only to those who pay?
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http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=123&aid=168842
Recent:
Federal Courts Sound The Alarm Against RECAP; Worried About PACER Profits
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| We've been excited to see what would happen with the RECAP Firefox extension,
| which is being used to help free up public domain court documents that have
| been locked up behind the PACER paywall. However, there were also questions
| about how the folks who run and/or benefit from PACER would react.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090824/0452165974.shtml
Federal court using scare tactics to block sharing of public records
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| It appears that the US Courts, concerned about competition from software that
| offers the possibility of widespread free access to documents filed on
| federal judicial dockets, for which the public would otherwise have to pay
| the courts at the rate of 8 cents a page, are ready to resort to scare
| tactics to discourage lawyers from using that software.
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http://pubcit.typepad.com/clpblog/2009/08/federal-court-using-scare-tactics-to-block-sharing-of-public-records.html
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