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Threatening Internet freedom in the UK
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| All too often, the public policy world
| focuses on subtle legislative distinctions
| and on regulatory details. But once in a
| while, an issue comes along that strikes
| to the heart of the big principles. Such
| an issue erupted last week in the UK - an
| issue that incorporates two of the most
| important subjects on these pages: privacy
| and innovation.
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http://googlepolicyeurope.blogspot.com/2009/12/threatening-internet-freedom-in-uk.html
SOCAN Tries To Keep Its Copyright Consultation Submission
Offline And Secret, But Fails
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| We were just talking about how SOCAN, the
| Canadian copyright collection society, was
| going after gymnastics clubs for kids
| using music in their practice routines.
| Now they're getting some well-deserved
| attention for other antics. Michael Geist
| explains how SOCAN tried to keep its
| submission to the government copyright
| consultation secret. The organization
| apparently requested that its submission
| not be posted online, even though that was
| part of the consultation process. The
| government made it available anyways, but
| only by email upon request. Of course,
| it's now available online elsewhere [PDF].
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20091204/1324077210.shtml
Disney CEO: I Can't Figure Out Ways To Adapt My Business, So I Need Government Protection
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| If you want to use Iger's logic, you could
| just as easily claim that copyright laws
| allow them to charge monopoly rents on
| products, thus depriving many other
| industries of money and jobs. Thus --
| again, using Iger's own logic -- copyright
| contributes to unemployment and the
| harming of our economy. Not sure he really
| wants to go there.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20091206/2325097225.shtml
Study: people who buy counterfeit bags likely to buy real ones later
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| MIT business professor Renee Richardson
| Gosline has conducted research suggesting
| that people who buy counterfeit bags are
| highly likely to purchase non-counterfeit
| versions of their treasures at a later
| date (even though the two bags can't be
| distinguished from one another by casual
| observers). Gresham's Law repealed for
| status goods?
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http://www.boingboing.net/2009/12/06/study-people-who-buy.html
Dec. 7, 1999: RIAA Sues Napster
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| 1999: The Recording Industry Association
| of America sues Napster, the online, peer-
| to-peer file sharing service thatâs
| allowing millions of computer users to
| score free, copyright music. The rules are
| about to change.
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http://www.wired.com/thisdayintech/2009/12/1207riaa-sues-napster/
Has the world gone crazy?
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| Peter Mandelson, in his infinite
| stupidity, goes for lunch on a yacht in
| Corfu with the entertainment industry
| lobby and the next thing we know he has
| declared war on every single person in the
| UK who uses the Internet â whether they be
| guilty of undesirable behaviour or not.
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https://nodpi.org/2009/12/08/has-the-world-gone-crazy/
Lib Dems to oppose Mandelson copyright powers
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| The Liberal Democrats are to oppose a
| clause in the Digital Economy Bill that
| would let the business secretary amend
| copyright law without parliamentary
| debate.
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http://news.zdnet.co.uk/communications/0,1000000085,39927706,00.htm?s_cid=260
Debate on Mandelson's job
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| The Conservatives have accused Business
| Secretary Lord Mandelson of "empire
| building", calling for his department to
| have a cabinet minister in the Commons.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/democracylive/hi/house_of_lords/newsid_8394000/8394205.stm
What does Detica detect?
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| I met with Detica last Friday, at their
| suggestion, to discuss what their system
| actually did (theyâve read some of my work
| on Phormâs system, so meeting me was
| probably not entirely random).
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http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2009/12/07/what-does-detica-detect/
âNo Infringement Intendedâ
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| I have noticed recently while playing
| around on YouTube and Google Video seeking
| exam question fodder that many fans of
| popular movies and TV shows who make mash-
| up videos of material from the shows post
| a notice at the beginning or end of their
| video saying âno copyright infringement
| intendedâ. It strikes me that this is
| actually a really good example of the
| disjoin between what the law says and what
| people think the law says. If copyright
| is basically a strict liability statute,
| then the intention to infringe is
| irrelevant. However, the everyday
| potential infringer doesnât know this.
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http://madisonian.net/2009/12/08/no-infringement-intended/
Getting The Music Business Over The 'But We Must Sell Music' Hump
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| This isn't to downplay the importance of
| music, or say that the quality of music
| doesn't matter. It absolutely does. But
| the music is not the scarcity, and you
| don't make money off of selling something
| that's abundant. You use the abundance to
| figure out what other scarce goods it
| makes more valuable and you sell those.
| So, people can complain and shout all they
| want, but it doesn't change the basic fact
| that until you recognize that selling
| music directly just isn't a very good
| business model, you're limiting your
| market tremendously.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20091208/1052477252.shtml
Streaming will never stop downloading
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| Far from being a cure for the industry's
| woes, substituting streams for downloads
| wastes bandwidth, reduces privacy and
| slows innovation
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/dec/08/music-streaming-cory-doctorow
Record Company Piracy = $6bn Losses
http://brendanscott.wordpress.com/2009/12/08/record-company-piracy-6bn-losses/
Recent:
Pure Mint boss resigns BPI committee over Digital Economy Bill
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| Hall believes the proposed legislation has
| been rushed in a bid to get it through
| parliament before the next General
| Election, that it is in danger of
| disregarding some sacred legal principles
| (regarding process, presumption of
| innocence and burden of proof) and that it
| won't solve the record industry's piracy
| problems anyway.
|
| In his resignation letter to the BPI, Hall
| writes: "I have enjoyed contributing to
| both [the BPI's] Rights [Committee] and
| the [IFPI's] ILC, but increasingly feel
| that my contributions are falling on deaf
| ears as an agenda has already been reached
| that I now consider is unmovable. As you
| know, I do not think the Digital Economy
| Bill is a sensible or well thought out
| piece of legislation. In my view it is
| being rushed through the last months of a
| parliament of an unpopular government and
| it is not legislation that I support".
|
| Referencing clause 17 - the one that gives
| senior ministers the right to change
| copyright laws on whim - he continued: "I
| am particularly surprised that the record
| industry has chosen to endorse s.17 of the
| DEB, which I consider is wholly
| undemocratic and contrary to centuries of
| good practice regarding the forming of our
| copyright legislation. I also believe it
| may set a dangerous precedent going
| forwards (and could come back to haunt the
| industry)".
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http://newsblog.thecmuwebsite.com/post/Pure-Mint-boss-resigns-BPI-committee-over-Digital-Economy-Bill.aspx
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