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Google and MS sued over links to file-sharing site
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| Mini music label Blue Destiny Records has
| sued both Google and Microsoft for allegedly
| "facilitating and enabling" the illegal
| distribution of copyrighted songs.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/12/09/blue_destiny_suit_against_google_and_microsoft/
EA CEO: "I Think Of Pirates As A Marketplace"
By selling people who grab games digitally â without paying for them â post-release downloadable content.
http://kotaku.com/5421466/ea-ceo-i-think-of-pirates-as-a-marketplace
Nesson Asking For Retrial In Tenenbaum Case, Claims It Was The Judge Who Screwed Up, Not Him
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| From the rest of the article, it sounds like
| he wants a do over. He says that he wants to
| have a new trial where he'll make a brand
| new argument: that Tenenbaum's use was fair
| use because when he did the file sharing,
| there was no legal way to purchase that
| music digitally. As far as I can tell,
| that's a misreading of what Gertner said
| might possibly work as a limited fair use
| claim, but there's no indication that this
| is actually true in Tenenbaum's case, and
| none of that addresses the basic procedural
| mistakes that Nesson made.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20091209/0357087263.shtml
âMissed Opportunityâ In File Sharing Case? Donât Believe It
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| Tenenbaum was only the second person in the
| nation to be sued by the RIAA for file
| sharing and to take the case all the way to
| jury trial, making it a closely watched
| case. Itâs not surprising he lost, given
| that he admitted to sharing 30 songs on
| Kazaa and Limewire. But a few commentators
| have decided that Tenenbaumâs lawyer,
| Harvardâs Charles Nesson, is to blame for
| failing to offer the nuanced âfair useâ
| defense invited by the judge.
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http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/12/nesson-2/
Getting Past The 'But Artists Should Just Be Artists' Myth
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| All in all, it really helped solidify the
| idea that the claim that "artists just need
| to be artists" and shouldn't be concerned
| about business models or talking to fans is
| really just a line used by record labels to
| try to gain more control over artists, at
| their own expense. That doesn't mean that
| artists shouldn't try to find that "5th
| Beatle," to help them when it becomes
| necessary, but that they should make sure
| that whoever that 5th Beatle is, he or she
| is really aligned with their thinking in
| where they want to go with their career.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20091208/1116027253.shtml
US Lobbyist: If Canada Just Implemented US-Style Copyright Law, US Would Drop 'Buy American' Provisions
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| We've seen the ridiculous pressure that
| lobbyists and diplomats have been putting on
| Canada to put in place significantly more
| draconian copyright law, without any
| evidence that it's needed and even though
| it's opposed by the vast majority of
| Canadian citizens.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20091209/0039047258.shtml
VideoSong Pioneers Pomplamoose Take on Beyonceâs âSingle Ladies,â Michael Jacksonâs âBeat Itâ
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| Indie rockers Nataly Dawn and Jack Conte are
| pioneers in the new VideoSong movement, soon
| to hit a computer near you. The Stanford
| University graduates formed the band
| Pomplamoose in the summer of 2008, recording
| high-energy video covers of popular tunes
| like Beyonceâs âSingle Ladiesâ (which was
| just nominated for a Song of the Year Grammy
| Award) and Michael Jacksonâs âBeat It.â
| Filmed and recorded out of Conteâs childhood
| bedroom (his old blankets double as sound
| dampeners on the wall), the videos make use
| of clever editing and split screens to show
| off Dawn on vocals and Conte playing one of
| the two-dozen instruments lying around the
| room.
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http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2009/12/03/pomplamoose-inspired-by-avant-garde-film-and-michael-jackson-a-hit-on-youtube/
Recent:
Artists To National Gallery Of Canada: 'Pay Us Again And Again And Again!'
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| Rose M. Welch writes in to point to the
| latest example of entitlement culture gone
| wrong. Apparently, two groups representing
| artists in Canada, The Canadian Artists'
| Representation, known as CARFAC, and the
| Regroupement des artistes en arts visuels
| du Quebec (RAAV), have filed a complaint
| against the National Gallery in Canada. The
| National Gallery already pays artists an
| exhibition fee to display their art. But,
| CARFAC and RAAV think that the National
| Gallery needs to pay them multiple times
| for the same artworks, because the Gallery
| also uses some of the artwork it displays
| in brochures, catalogs and other offerings.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20091204/0021227195.shtml
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