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Anti-Pirates Scare Kids with Propagandistic Comic Book
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| The Motion Picture Association has sent
| one of its big shot lobbyists to New
| Zealand to advocate tougher anti-piracy
| legislation, and to promote a
| propagandistic comic book set be handed
| out to thousands of local kids.
| Interestingly, the comic doesnât touch the
| subject of copyright. Instead it uses
| false threats to scare children and
| parents about the dangers of file-sharing.
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http://torrentfreak.com/anti-pirates-scare-kids-with-propagandistic-comic-book-091012/
Pirate Bay co-founders deny ownership of site
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| Lawyers representing The Pirate Bay co-
| founders, Frederik Neij and Gottfrid Warg,
| denied in a Dutch civil court yesterday
| that the Swedish men currently own the
| notorious BitTorrent tracker site.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/10/09/pirate_bay_brein_ownership_reservella/
Big Entertainment's century-long technophobic binge
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| Nice work from Ars Technica's Nate
| Anderson on the ways that entertainment
| companies have spent the past century
| decrying new technology, claiming that it
| would destroy copyright, from the record
| player to the xerox machine to the VCR to
| DTV to Napster.
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http://www.boingboing.net/2009/10/11/big-entertainments-c.html
BCCLA Files Lawsuit Against City For Violation of Charter Rights, VO Blogger Chris Shaw Key Plaintiff
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| Two citizens stood up today against the
| Vancouver Olympics Committee and the City
| of Vancouver to oppose a bylaw they say
| will infringe on free speech and erode
| Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
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http://www.vancouverobserver.com/politics/news/2009/10/07/bccla-files-lawsuit-against-city-violation-charter-rights-vo-blogger-chris
ASCAP and BMI - Another Royalty Battle for Broadcasters?
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| While we have written much about the
| battle over the broadcast performance
| royalty (or the "performance tax" as
| broadcasters call is) - whether
| broadcasters will have to pay artists and
| record labels for the right to play their
| music on the air - we have not written
| much about another looming issue with the
| royalties that broadcasters must pay to
| play music on their stations. While
| broadcasters are very familiar with the
| ASCAP and BMI royalties, they may not be
| fully aware that there is a looming
| dispute over the amount that broadcasters
| will pay to these organizations in the
| near future. At a panel that I moderated
| at the NAB Radio Show, Bill Valez, the
| head of the Radio Music Licensing
| Committee, talked about the current
| negotiations for the renewal of the
| royalty agreements between radio stations
| and these two Performing Rights
| Organizations ("PROs").
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http://www.broadcastlawblog.com/2009/10/articles/broadcast-performance-royalty/ascap-and-bmi-another-royalty-battle-for-broadcasters/
Recent:
children as young as five
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| The record industry was under fire last
| night after launching a scheme to teach
| primary schoolchildren â possibly as
| young as five â not to illegally download
| music from the internet.
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1217929/Anger-music-chiefs-school-anti-piracy-lessons-children-young-five.html
High court overturns guilty ruling against developer of
file-sharing software Winny
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| The Osaka High Court on Thursday
| overturned a lower court ruling that had
| convicted the developer of controversial
| file-sharing software Winny of assisting
| violations of the Copyright Law.
|
| Isamu Kaneko, 39, a former research
| assistant at the University of Tokyo, was
| declared not guilty, and will not be
| required to pay a 1.5 million yen fine
| levied by a December 2006 Kyoto District
| Court ruling.
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http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20091008p2a00m0na016000c.html
Music Publishers, Songwriters To Congress: Our Royalties
Should Be Guaranteed, No Matter What The Market Says
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| No wonder they're lashing out and doing
| all sorts of ridiculous stuff like trying
| to get extra royalties on embedded
| videos, ringtones and 30 second previews.
| These are the same groups that have
| publicly decided they need to try to
| start a PR campaign against people who
| are trying to protect user rights and
| fair use. Since that time, we've noticed
| various people associated with ASCAP and
| the Songwriters Guild putting up various
| blogs attacking copyright skeptics in the
| most ridiculous ways. There's one, which
| isn't worth pointing out, where a lawyer
| who works with these groups regularly
| mocks Larry Lessig, William Patry,
| Michael Geist and myself -- using
| nicknames and making up fanciful stories
| about us. It's the sort of activity you'd
| expect from a 12-year-old.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-31001_3-10370513-261.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
MI Tries To Hide Kids Education Anti-Piracy Objective
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| A music industry consultant has changed her Linkedin
| profile when it was revealed that the music lessons sheâs
| giving in schools arenât quite as they seem. Ruth Katz, who
| worked in anti-piracy enforcement for EMI and still works
| for the company as a consultant, is lecturing kids as young
| as five on anti-piracy issues.
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http://torrentfreak.com/emi-tries-to-hide-kids-education-anti-piracy-objective-091004/
EMI To Mom & Pops: Eat Cake Bitch
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| So let me get this straight. EMI intends to save money by not selling their
| CDâs to independent retailers. Instead they want these retailers to go to one
| stops for their product.
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http://www.waynerosso.com/2009/06/30/emi-to-mom-pops-eat-cake/
Back to school with RIAA-funded copyright curriculum
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| School kids in American could certainly stand to learn
| about copyright in the classroomâit's a fascinating
| topic that increasingly impacts the life of every
| "digital native" and intersects with law, history, art,
| and technology. But should they be exposed to industry-
| funded materials meant to teach kids:
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| That taking music without paying for it ("songlifting")
| is illegal and unfair to others (RIAA)
| Why illegally downloading music hurts more people than
| they think (ASCAP)
| How the DVD-sniffing dogs, Lucky and Flo, help uncover
| film piracy (MPAA)
| To use problem-solving approaches to investigate and
| understand film piracy (The Film Foundation)
| The importance of using legal software as well as the
| meaning of copyright laws and why it's essential to
| protect copyrighted works such as software (Business
| Software Alliance)
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http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/09/back-to-school-with-riaa-funded-curriculum.ars
Michael Robertson Wants To Crowdsource Proof Of EMI's Lies: You Lie EMI Bookmarklet Available
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| EMI has been involved in a lawsuit with MP3Tunes for a
| while now. The whole lawsuit seems weird, since
| MP3Tunes is about creating a storage locker for the
| songs you already have. But one of the points that
| MP3Tunes made in response to EMI's claims is that EMI
| was lying in saying that it has never authorized MP3s
| to be available online.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090916/1907106215.shtml
Canadian Copyright Levy Group Wants New iPod Tax... But It's Not Really For The Artists
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| But they're back at it again. And it's really no wonder.
| Already the cost of a blank CD in Canada has an astounding
| 90% of the price go to this levy. But what happens to all
| that money? Well, the CPCC claims that it needs this levy to
| sustain the livelihood of artists. That's also its reasoning
| for extending it to iPods. But, Howard Knopf dug into the
| numbers a bit and notes how laughable that claim is. First,
| CPCC claims that its brought in over $150 million from the
| blank CD levy, and handed it out to 97,000 rights holders
| "most of whom would not be able to continue their careers
| without this revenue."
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090914/1830116188.shtml
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