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Guns Nâ Roses sued for copyright violation
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| The RIAA, FBI and GunsânâRoses wanted him jailed
| for uploading nine unreleased tracks from the
| bandâs Chinese Democracy album to his blog, said
| p2pnet in July.
|
| [...]
|
| In an ironic twist, Guns Nâ Roses is being
| accused of, you guessed it, copyright
| infringement.
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http://www.p2pnet.net/story/29576
Shorter copyright would free creativity
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| The film It's a Wonderful Life is now very
| popular but originally lost money. It was only
| after 1970 when copyright lapsed and it was taken
| up by others that it became successful. Ditto The
| Secret Garden, a children's classic, and numerous
| others. This is worth noting because governments
| everywhere are caving in to corporate lobbies by
| extending the life of copyright, â ludicrous in a
| digital age â to life plus 70 years. Length of
| copyright is at the heart of the current debate
| about whether Google should be allowed to scan
| books including "orphan works" where copyright is
| unknown. These account for 40% of all books,
| according to the British Library, which has
| scanned less than 5% of its treasures because of
| the uncertainty of copyright laws. Some suggest
| that only 2% of all works protected by copyright
| are commercially available, an absurd misuse of
| knowledge.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/oct/07/shorter-copyright-term
Recent:
A Song For Lily Allen... And A Little Conversation
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| And, despite her deleting her blog, some actually
| saved many of the comments on her blog. And, again,
| they don't show "abuse," but thoughtful, reasoned
| argument along these lines -- none of which Ms.
| Allen has responded to as of yet. That post, by the
| way, also highlights numerous factual errors in Ms.
| Allen's earlier responses.
|
| So, yes, I'm going to post this video, because I
| think it's great (and catchy) and because I think it
| does further the conversation, just not in the
| direction that Ms. Allen intended. It's from a fan
| of Ms. Allen's work, and is endearing, not
| attacking. It's entertaining. It's free... and it
| got me to go and buy Dan Bull's first album, even
| though he's offering it up for free, too.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090927/1825076330.shtml
Blow for music industry as Lily Allen says Peter Mandelson's plans too draconian
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| The music industryâs battle to have persistent internet
| pirates disconnected was dealt a huge blow last night
| after leading musicians including Lily Allen settled
| their differences and agreed that plans to suspend
| internet access were too draconian.
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http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article6848502.ece
Squeeze file-sharers, stars say
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| Instead, they released a statement saying persistent
| offenders should have their bandwidths "squeezed".
|
| Artists including Allen, George Michael, Annie Lennox,
| Radiohead guitarist Ed O'Brien and Pink Floyd drummer
| Nick Mason signed the statement.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8274072.stm
Lily Allen Distributing Tons Of Copyrighted Music; Blows Way Past Three Strikes
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| It appears that she actually qualifies. Quite directly.
| She's offering music from, among others, Jay-Z, Jefferson
| Airplane, The Specials and The Kinks. Admittedly, it's
| just a quick look around, but it appears many of the
| artists whose works she's distributing for free have no
| connection with EMI. Even if they did, remember EMI was
| recently claiming that it's never authorized MP3s for
| distribution for publicity purposes. Uh oh.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090923/1409046297.shtml
Some Questions For Lily Allen
http://techdirt.com/articles/20090923/1138026294.shtml
A Teaching Moment For Lily Allen [Update: And Poof Goes Her Blog]
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| Update: Wow. In the half an hour or so that I took to
| write this post, Lily erased the blog post where she
| responded (I've got a screenshot if anyone wants to see
| it), and just added a note to Twitter, saying that she's
| shut down the entire blog due to too much abuse. Lily,
| it's not abuse if we're just asking you to rethink your
| positions that appear to not be particularly well thought
| out.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090924/0241556300.shtml
Lily Allen, Don't Apologize To Me, Apologize To Everyone Else
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| If anyone deserves an apology, it's all the people you've been
| blasting with this complaint that it's "piracy" that's somehow
| harming artists, when the actual evidence shows no such thing.
| Plenty of artists have learned to embrace file sharing and
| used it to their advantage, suggesting it's not piracy that's
| the problem -- it's artists unwillingness to adapt and put in
| place smarter business models.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090922/0310156273.shtml
Lily Allen: Copying Isn't Alright... Unless It's Done By Lily Allen
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| But what's quite odd is that Ms. Allen, while complaining
| about such unfair copying, seemed to have absolutely no
| problem with copying my entire Techdirt post -- without
| credit or a link.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090921/0527456270.shtml
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