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Tintin copyrights go to war against Tintin fans
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| The British lawyer who married the widow of Tintin creator HergÃ
| has successfully sued Bob Garcia ("a detective novelist, jazz
| musician and Tintin aficionado") for Â35,000 for printing five
| short essays in appreciation of Tintin, two of which were
| illustrated with brief clips from the comic. The
| essays were distributed for free, and the two
| pamphlets with Tintin illustrations were printed
| about 500 times each.
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http://www.boingboing.net/2010/01/11/tintin-copyrights-go.html
Cory Doctorow: Close Enough for Rock 'n' Roll
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| If the Internet has a motif, it is rock 'n' roll's
| Protestant Reformation thrashing against the orchestral
| One Church. Rock 'n' roll gets lots of wee kirks
| built in every hill and dale in which parishioners can
| find religion in their own ways; choral music erects
| majestic cathedrals that humble and amaze, but take three
| generations of laborers to build.
|
| [...]
|
| But what does it cost to publish something half
| as good as Newsweek, say, the Huffington Post? Sure,
| HuffPo has brought in about $20MM in venture capital,
| but ignore that sum â that's how much they can sweet
| talk out of the world of finance. I'm talking about how
| much capital it cost to build and operate HuffPo. A tiny,
| unmeasurable fraction of what it cost to build and run Newsweek.
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http://www.locusmag.com/Perspectives/2010/01/cory-doctorow-close-enough-for-rock-n.html
Music companies want Pirate Bay founders to pay fine
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| The Stockholm District Court should decide that two of
| The Pirate Bay's founders have to pay a fine since the
| file-sharing site is still open and they are still
| involved, according to a recent filing from the music
| industry.
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http://www.techworld.com.au/article/332054/music_companies_want_pirate_bay_founders_pay_fine?fp=2&fpid=1&rid=1
Fahrenheit 451â Book burning as done by lawyers
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| But the legal changes introduced in the years
| after Fahrenheit 451 did more than just extend terms.
| Congress eliminated the benign practice of the renewal
| requirement (which had guaranteed that 85% of
| works and 93% of books entered the public domain
| after 28 years because the authors and publishers
| simply didnât want or need a second copyright term.)
| And copyright, which had been an opt-in system
| (you had to comply with some very minor formalities
| to get a copyright) became an opt out system (you
| got a copyright automatically when you âfixedâ the
| work in material form, whether you wanted it or not.)
| Suddenly the entire world of informal and non commercial
| culture â from home movies that provide a wonderful
| lens into the private life of an era, to essays,
| posters, locally produced teaching materials â was
| swept into copyright. And kept there for the life
| of the author plus 70 years. The effects were
| culturally catastrophic.
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http://www.thepublicdomain.org/2009/12/31/fahrenheit-451-book-burning-as-done-by-lawyers/
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