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Perfect Pitch Accused Of DMCA Abuse To Censor Criticism
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| Michael Scott points us to yet another
| (yes, another) case of copyfraud, where
| someone sends a DMCA takedown notice to
| stop criticism, rather than actual
| infringement. In this case, the party
| accused of misusing the DMCA in this manner
| (which is illegal) is whoever is behind the
| website PerfectPitch.com, who offers a fee-
| based training program that is supposed to
| help people learn to have (surprise,
| surprise) perfect pitch.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20091103/1839446788.shtml
Auditor General Wields Crown Copyright To Demand Takedown
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| Crown copyright concerns were raised
| repeatedly during this summer's copyright
| consultation as many groups expressed the
| view that government works should be
| treated as public domain. The issue
| generated some surprise from Industry
| Minister Tony Clement, who asked for
| examples about why crown copyright was a
| problem.
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http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/4514/125/
Warner Brothers to FCC: When We Say SOC Is Necessary, We Mean Not Necessary
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| As the Selectable Output Control (SOC)
| battle continues here in Washington, Public
| Knowledge just sent a letter to the FCC
| pointing out that movie studios are doing
| some of the best work to show why SOC just
| doesnât make sense.
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http://www.publicknowledge.org/node/2750
FCC Poised To Let Hollywood Break Your TV And DVR
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| Want to know why the MPAA got 60 Minutes to
| run its propaganda piece on movie piracy
| this week? Because it knew this fight was
| close to a deciding point, and a little
| moral panic might help tip it over the edge
| into Hollywood's favor.
|
| For a while, the FCC has pushed back and
| refused to grant the movie studios an
| exemption in order to break your TV, but
| word is coming down that, despite promises
| to make decisions based on "evidence," the
| FCC is ready to give in and let the MPAA
| break your TV and DVR in order to stop you
| from recording the movies it releases. Why?
| There's no good reason at all, other than
| the administration's cozy relationship with
| Hollywood these days. The industry's own
| actions show that this will do nothing to
| make it easier for it to release movies
| earlier. The industry's own claims show
| that it will do nothing to decrease piracy.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20091105/1051206806.shtml
EU Breaks Deadlock in Debate Over Right to Internet Access
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| After months of often bitter debate,
| European Union lawmakers reached agreement
| on how to preserve citizen's rights to
| Internet access in a meeting that ended in
| the early hours of Thursday morning.
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http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/181472/eu_breaks_deadlock_in_debate_over_right_to_internet_access.html
Recent:
EFF Warns Texas Instruments to Stop Harassing Calculator Hobbyists
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| The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) warned
| Texas Instruments (TI) today not to pursue its
| baseless legal threats against calculator
| hobbyists who blogged about potential
| modifications to the company's programmable
| graphing calculators.
|
| TI's calculators perform a "signature check"
| that allows only approved operating systems to
| be loaded onto the hardware. But researchers
| were able to reverse-engineer signing keys,
| allowing tinkers to install custom operating
| systems and unlock new functionality in the
| calculators' hardware. In response to this
| discovery, TI unleashed a torrent of demand
| letters claiming that the anti-circumvention
| provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright
| Act (DMCA) required the hobbyists to take down
| commentary about and links to the keys. EFF
| represents three men who received such letters.
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http://www.eff.org/press/archives/2009/10/13
Ralph Lauren And Its Lawyers Discover The Streisand Effect On Bogus DMCA Takedown
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| Boing Boing put up a post about it, along with the tag
| line "Dude, her head's bigger than her pelvis." While
| some have questioned whether the ad is even real, one
| thing is clear: Ralph Lauren was not pleased. The
| company's lawyers at Greenberg Traurig sent DMCA takedown
| notices concerning both posts. Despite Blogger's new DMCA
| policy, Google still quickly took down the post at
| Photoshop Disasters, causing the site to ask whether or
| not Ralph Lauren or its lawyers have ever heard of the
| Streisand Effect (yay). BoingBoing's host, however,
| doesn't automatically take content down and passed along
| the info to BoingBoing, who quickly pointed out that this
| was clearly fair use (commentary, criticism, etc.) and
| the DMCA takedown wasn't being used to stop infringing
| content, but to stifle speech.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20091006/2245076436.shtml
EFF: Chamber of Commerce Takes Aim at Yes Men
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| Attorneys for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce
| have issued a takedown notice in an attempt
| to silence a parody website that was posted
| in support of the Yes Men's embarrassing
| prank poking fun at the Chamber's stance on
| climate change legislation.
|
| In a letter sent to the Chamber's attorneys
| today, the Electronic Frontier Foundation
| (EFF) demands that the baseless claims be
| withdrawn immediately.
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http://www.eff.org/press/archives/2009/10/22
Chamber Of Commerce Sues Yes Men; Someone Just Gave Protestors A Lot More Attention
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| While we weren't sure that the EFF was
| correct in suggesting the Yes Men's fake
| U.S. Chamber of Commerce website was a
| parody, we did think that it was rather
| short-sighted of the CoC to try to takedown
| the site, since it would only serve to give
| the Yes Men and their anti-CoC campaign more
| attention.
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http://vannevar.blogspot.com/2009/10/windows-7-trust-me.html
Latest Bogus DMCA Takedown Sent By NPR?
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| This is quite similar to when CBS tried to
| stop the McCain campaign from using a
| snippet of a broadcast in an ad. In both
| cases it seems that the use is a clear
| situation of fair use, with the content not
| being used for commercial reasons (yes, we'd
| like to believe that politics still isn't
| commercial) and only a snippet was being
| used.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20091026/0353226673.shtml
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