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US Senators are concerned about secret treaty
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| POLITICIANS in the former British colony
| of Virginia are starting to wake up to the
| fact that its government is about to sign
| a secret treaty called the Anti-
| Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) that
| will give sweeping powers to the movie and
| music businesses to lock up filesharers.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1563269/us-senators-concerned-secret-treaty
Industry FAIL: Four Musical Mistakes Of The Decade
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| The practice of record companies paying
| radio DJs to play specific records is an
| old one -- and an illegal one since 1960.
| So major record-label interests simply
| employed "independent promoters," complete
| with scare-quotes, to bribe stations and
| their employees with vacations, new
| clothes, illegal drugs -- the usual. A
| pre-punchline Eliot Spitzer, then New
| York's attorney general, launched a
| massive investigation into the issue,
| eventually winning settlements totaling
| more than $25 million from three of the
| four major recording companies. Not only
| was this a terrible financial and
| publicity burden, but in today's
| commercial radio climate, the labels'
| songs -- especially those from major
| artists -- likely would have been played
| anyway.
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http://www.npr.org/blogs/monitormix/2009/11/industry_fail_4_musical_mistak.html
Rin Tin Tin court win
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| Nu Image and First Look Studios have won a
| legal dogfight over using the name Rin Tin
| Tin in the kidpic "Finding Rin Tin Tin:
| the Adventure Continues."
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http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118011581.html?categoryId=13&cs=1
Recent:
Viacom's top lawyer: suing P2P users "felt like terrorism"
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| Michael Fricklas, Viacom's general
| counsel, tells a group of Yale Law
| students that he's a huge fan of fair use,
| doesn't want to take down your YouTube
| mashup, and has no plans to start suing
| P2P users in federal courtsâbut he still
| loves DRM and "three strikes" laws.
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http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/11/viacoms-top-lawyer-suing-p2p-users-felt-like-terrorism.ars
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