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[News] Business Model Based on Intellectual Monopolies Challenged

  • Subject: [News] Business Model Based on Intellectual Monopolies Challenged
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 01 Nov 2009 13:50:26 +0000
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Musician Making A Living With Forty Committed True Fans

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| Ariel Hyatt has been blogging about the 
| concept of 1,000 True Fans and has an 
| interview with musician Matthew Ebel, an 
| up-and-coming musician who makes a living 
| from his music, and breaks down the 
| details -- including pointing out that he 
| makes 26.3% of his net income from just 40 
| hard-core fans.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20091030/0121566726.shtml

It's Official: Obama 'Hope' Poster Artist's Lawyers Want off Case

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| In a motion filed in federal district 
| court on Thursday, lawyers representing 
| artist Shepard Fairey in the copyright 
| fight with The Associated Press over his 
| Obama "Hope" poster asked that they be 
| allowed to withdraw from the case and that 
| a Jones Day attorney and a pair of law 
| professors be allowed to replace them.
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http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202435096826&Its_Official_Obama_Hope_Poster_Artists_Lawyers_Want_off_Case


Recent:

Federal Courts Sound The Alarm Against RECAP; Worried About PACER Profits

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| We've been excited to see what would happen with the RECAP Firefox extension,
| which is being used to help free up public domain court documents that have
| been locked up behind the PACER paywall. However, there were also questions
| about how the folks who run and/or benefit from PACER would react.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090824/0452165974.shtml


Federal court using scare tactics to block sharing of public records

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| It appears that the US Courts, concerned about competition from software that
| offers the possibility of widespread free access to documents filed on
| federal judicial dockets, for which the public would otherwise have to pay
| the courts at the rate of 8 cents a page, are ready to resort to scare
| tactics to discourage lawyers from using that software.
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http://pubcit.typepad.com/clpblog/2009/08/federal-court-using-scare-tactics-to-block-sharing-of-public-records.html
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