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Radio "pay to play" law ready for vote in House, Senate
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| Webcasters and satellite radio pay the music
| labels for the songs they play, but not
| radio. The Performance Rights Act could
| change that, and it's now ready for a vote
| in both chambers of Congress.
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http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/10/radio-pay-to-play-law-ready-for-vote-in-house-senate.ars
Congress escalates battle over radio royalties
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| Members of Congress, already bruised by the
| struggles over the health care overhaul, had
| better get ready for another bitter fight,
| this time over the future of the music
| business.
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| Record companies and radio stations are
| battling over a legislative proposal, called
| the Performance Rights Act, that would
| require broadcasters to pay royalties to air
| recorded music.
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http://www.usatoday.com/money/media/2009-10-20-radio-music-royalties-congress_N.htm
World Of Goo Tries A Donation Model, Publishes Results
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| This is another good point that highlights
| the separation between price and value --
| which too many falsely assume are the same
| thing. There were also a significant number
| of people who said they paid because they
| liked the "pay what you want model, and
| wanted to support it." So they were paying
| to support the model, rather than the game
| itself, which is interesting. I wonder if
| that component would fade over time as these
| sorts of models become more popular.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20091021/0130456617.shtml
Culture Secretary Says Suspected Pirates Will Get Right Of Appeal
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| Hereâs something of a climbdown to warm the
| hearts of pirated content fans everywhere:
| the government has signaled it is to add
| safeguard measures to Lord Mandelsonâs
| controversial P2P disconnection plans and
| will give accused illegal file-sharers the
| right to appeal against disconnection.
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http://paidcontent.co.uk/article/419-culture-secretary-says-suspected-pirates-will-get-right-of-appeal/
Pirate Bay appeal pushed back to 2010
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| The appeals in the Pirate Bay copyright
| trial have been pushed back from November to
| next summer amid controversy surrounding
| some of the judges involved in the case.
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http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/world/news/e3ic512b22ee5b6e490dda0313ac6336432
Brit copyright group says, "No laptops allowed in cinemas"
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| Jeremy Nicholas, a British TV reporter, was
| told that he wasn't allowed to bring his
| laptop into a Cineworld movie theater
| because the chain had taken the advice of
| FACT (The Federation Against Copyright
| Theft) and banned computers from cinemas "to
| prevent piracy." The cinema had no facility
| for securely storing laptops -- which are
| worth thousands in and of themselves and
| often contain crucial and invaluable private
| and commercial information -- and suggested
| that he leave the laptop in his car in the
| unguarded parking lot.
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http://www.boingboing.net/2009/10/15/brit-copyright-group.html
Access Copyright: Reduce Fair Dealing, No Taping TV Shows or Format Shifting
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| The Government continues to post copyright
| consultation submissions (still lots to go
| one month after the consultation concluded)
| with many making for interesting reading.
| Access Copyright's submission is worth
| noting for two reasons. First, rather than
| simply arguing against flexible fair
| dealing, it argues that the current fair
| dealing provision as interpreted by the
| Supreme Court of Canada is actually too
| broad.
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http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/4454/125/
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