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Copyright and Morals
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| Morality is used in the Copyright Wars as a way to
| cover up the inability to justify expansion of
| rights on economic grounds.
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http://volokh.com/2009/10/05/copyright-and-morals/
What Kind Of Industry Sets Up A Group To Purposely Limit What Consumers Want? Apparently Hollywood
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| We've been hearing from more and more movie makers
| who are recognizing how treating their fans right,
| while giving them a reason to buy is a much more
| effective means of reaching an audience than
| starting off on the assumption that everyone is a
| criminal. The movie business has always been based
| on selling ancillary products.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20091016/1627446570.shtml
California County Hoarding Map Data Ordered to Pay $500,000
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| A California countyâs three-year battle to prevent a
| nonprofit group from obtaining public mapping data
| has ended disastrously for the county after it was
| ordered by a court to pay the group $500,000 in
| legal costs.
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http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/10/gis_data/
MPAA: Antipiracy is now 'content protection'
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| Among the three who were quietly ushered out of
| their posts at the Motion Picture Association of
| America three weeks ago was Greg Goeckner, the
| MPAA's general counsel. The others were the MPAA's
| director of worldwide antipiracy operations and its
| deputy director of Internet antipiracy. Goeckner
| will remain with the MPAA until the end of the year.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-31001_3-10376839-261.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Verizon Not Liable for Ringtone Performance Fee
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| When your co-worker's ringtone constantly fills the
| air with the latest auto-tune hit, it is most
| definitely annoying, but is it also a violation of
| copyright?
|
| The American Society of Composers, Authors and
| Publishers (ASCAP) claims that when someone's cell
| phone rings and one of its members' songs plays as a
| ringtone, the wireless provider should pay
| performance fees for the right to use that song.
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http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2354354,00.asp
Judge: ringtones aren't performances, so no royalties
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| Songwriters and publishers won't be able to collect
| royalties each time a cellphone plays an annoying
| musical ringtone in public, thanks to a federal
| judge's ruling that ringtones aren't public
| performances.
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http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/10/judge-ringtones-arent-performances-so-no-royalties.ars
The Pirate Bay and Youtube
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| Like many other people, it used to bother me that
| The Pirate Bay was being sued for distributing
| hashes of copyright-restricted material whereas
| Youtube could distribute the material itself without
| fear of punishment.
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http://robertmh.wordpress.com/2009/10/16/the-pirate-bay-and-youtube/
Implementing a sensible copyright: "FLOW-IT"
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| The other reason I picked the nickname âFLOW-ITâ for
| this idea, though, is that works licensed in this
| way âflowâ will flow in a fairly reasonable time
| from the traditional copyright zone into the free
| culture zone. Itâs a way to merge more
| traditionally-funded artist works into the free-
| culture âCommons.â This is something that half-way
| solutions like the Creative Commons âNonCommercialâ
| licenses just canât do on their own (because they
| never really make it into the Commons).
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http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/columns/implementing_sensible_copyright_flow_it
Recent:
Breaking the bargain: copyright extensions violate "moral rights"
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| When the copyright industry lobbies for extensions to already-long copyright
| terms, they always present it as a way of giving the artists of the past
| their due â as a further protection of the "moral rights" that artists have
| in their creations.
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http://www.questioncopyright.org/breaking_the_bargain
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