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Copyright collective: free format and time-shifting never OK
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| A Canadian copyright licensing group doesn't care
| how many people do itâformat and time shifting
| should not be made legal unless rightsholders are
| paid for those copies being made for iPods and
| DVRs across Canada.
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http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/10/copyright-collective-free-format-time-shifting-never-ok.ars
Special Interests See âClassifiedâ Copyright Treaty; You Canât
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| Itâs classified. And, according to the Obama
| administration, it carries national security
| implications. According to leaked documents on
| WikiLeaks, the proposed treaty would require ISPs
| to terminate repeat copyright scofflaws,
| criminalize peer-to-peer file sharing, subject
| iPods to border searches and even interfere with
| the legitimate sale of brand-name pharmaceutical
| products.
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http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/10/specialinterests-peek-at-copyrighttreaty/
Access Copyright tells Canadian gov't: no home TV recording, no
ripping music, no moving old ebooks to new readers
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| Access Copyright, the Canadian organisation that
| collects library royalties for writers, filed a
| jaw-droppingly dumb set of comments in the
| Canadian Copyright consultation. Access Copyright
| came out as opposing the right to record TV shows
| at home, and the right to "format shift" your
| media (e.g., load a CD on your MP3 player, or put
| an old ebook on a new reader or phone). They also
| say that almost all commercial use, no matter how
| trivial, should require a license and not fall
| under fair dealing. They come out against the
| interlibrary loan system, because it is digital.
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http://www.boingboing.net/2009/10/14/access-copyright-tel.html
Universal Music Prevents Popular Play From Showing In Stockholm,
Despite Not Having The Legal Rights
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| As the major record labels and their lawyers and
| lobbyists run around the globe demonizing anyone
| for any sort of copyright infringement, we keep
| hearing stories of how they falsely claim rights
| over music for which they do not hold them. We
| recently covered the story of Edwyn Collins and
| his inability to offer free downloads of a
| popular hit song -- because Warner Music Group
| put in a copyright claim on the song. Reader
| Marius points us to a similar situation, over in
| Sweden. Despite theaters in Sweden being covered
| by a license agreement on musical performances by
| STIM, the Swedish performing rights collection
| society, apparently some music publishers claim
| that theaters still owe more money.
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http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20091013/0230276507.shtml
Recent:
Why Creativity Needs Shorter Copyright Terms
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| In response to a tweet of mine about shortening
| copyright to stimulate creativity, someone
| questioned the logic. It's an important point, so
| it seems useful to do some thinking out loud on the
| subject.
|
| [...]
|
| If we don't, one of two things will happen. Either
| we will fail to realise the full creative potential
| of computing, or else the younger generation of
| artists will simply ignore the law. Either is
| clearly unsatisfactory. What is needed is a
| copyright regime that is balanced. That is far from
| being the case today. As the media industry (sic)
| ratchets up copyright terms again and again,
| creation has become subservient to the corporation,
| and the creators are cut off from their past - and
| hence future.
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2009/10/why-creativity-needs-shorter-copyright.html
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