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[News] Latest Distortion of Copyright; MAFIAA Comes Under Antitrust Investigation

  • Subject: [News] Latest Distortion of Copyright; MAFIAA Comes Under Antitrust Investigation
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 22:04:29 +0000
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No end in sight for 50-year copyright levies war

,----[ Quote ]
| It is another change of tactics in a war 
| that has been going on for 50 years. This 
| week, consumer electronics companies led by 
| Apple, HP, Sony, Panasonic and Research In 
| Motion, broke off the latest round of talks 
| to reform the Europeâs convoluted system of 
| private copy levies.
`----

http://blogs.ft.com/techblog/2010/01/no-end-in-sight-for-50-year-copyright-levies-war/

USTR Will Listen To The Public On Creating Its 'IP Axis Of Evil' List?

,----[ Quote ]
| Historically, what it's been is the 
| entertainment industry putting together a 
| list of countries that don't have draconian 
| enough copyright laws, and it gets the USTR 
| to complain about them and put them on a 
| "watch list" of sorts. Pretty much everyone 
| who understands these issues knows it's a 
| complete joke, but unfortunately there are 
| lots of people who don't understand these 
| issues, and it lets diplomats and 
| politicians make laughable claims like 
| saying that Canada is a hub for piracy -- 
| and the press almost never questions where 
| that information came from because it sounds 
| all official. 
`----

http://techdirt.com/articles/20100112/2339157722.shtml

French 3 Strikes Group Unveils Copyright Infringing Logo

,----[ Quote ]
| Hadopi, the French agency charged with 
| handling file-sharersâ copyright 
| digressions, has just made a huge 
| infringement faux pas of its own. Last week 
| the group unveiled the logo which is set to 
| represent this bastion of copyright 
| righteousness, but embarrassingly it was 
| designed with unlicensed fonts.
`----

http://torrentfreak.com/french-3-strikes-group-unveils-copyright-infringing-logo-100112/

School District Considers 'Anti-Piracy' Education Campaign Based On Anti-Drug Education Campaigns

,----[ Quote ]
| The problem, of course, is that if you are 
| at all familiar with the subject, you would 
| realize that unauthorized file sharing is 
| not a societal problem like "drug use," but 
| is a business model issue.
`----

http://techdirt.com/articles/20100107/0307597649.shtml

Record Labels Demand Cash From Pirate Bay Founders

,----[ Quote ]
| The two were granted an appeal little over a 
| month later, but the record labels do not 
| intend to wait and are going after their 
| money. They have sent the District Court a 
| letter where they ask the authorities to 
| collect the fines.
`----

http://torrentfreak.com/record-labels-demand-cash-from-pirate-bay-founders-100111/

WMG's Bronfmen & Cohen Paid $14 Million In 2009

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| According to a new SEC filing, Warner Music 
| Group's two top executives, Edgar Bronfman 
| Jr. and Lyor Cohen, earned a combined $14 
| million in salary, bonuses, stock and stock 
| options in 2009. That's down $2 million from 
| their combined 2008 compensation, but twice 
| what they earned in 2007.  This chart via 
| paidContent details for WMG's four top 
| execs...
`----

http://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2010/01/highlights-of-new-warner-music-sec-filing.html

As Warner Music Collapses, Its Two Top Execs Got Paid $14 Million

,----[ Quote ]
| It's beginning to appear that some of the 
| major labels' strategy for dealing with the 
| changing structure of the music business -- 
| in which overall money is up, but has 
| shifted away from the record labels' bank 
| accounts -- is to simply bleed the old 
| market dry.
`----

http://techdirt.com/articles/20100112/0610087715.shtml

U.S. court revives antitrust suit on music downloads

,----[ Quote ]
| A federal appeals court reinstated on 
| Wednesday an antitrust lawsuit accusing 
| major record labels of conspiring to fix 
| prices for potentially millions of people 
| who download their music over the Internet.
`----

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE60C3Y020100113

Record labels face US antitrust hearing 

,----[ Quote ]
| A group of leading record companies face 
| court proceedings in the US over accusations 
| they conspired to fix the prices and terms 
| under which their music would be sold over 
| the Internet. 
`----

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnologyandtelecoms/media/6983774/Record-labels-face-US-antitrust-hearing.html

Live Blogging from World's Fair Use Day

,----[ Quote ]
| The first speaker is Pat Aufderheide, 
| director of social media at American 
| Universityâs School of Communications. The 
| purpose of copyright is to promote culture, 
| with âlimitedâ monopoly and provide balance 
| with exemptions to make new culture. 
| Copyright holders created imbalance in 
| copyright. At this point, fair use which was 
| âdinky backwaterâ is now escape hatch from 
| copyright holders. Itâs the most flexible 
| copyright exemption in the world. Best 
| Practices movement is about education. AU 
| has published best practices guides, with 
| filmmakers as first one. Eight weeks after 
| guide, three films went to Sundance and got 
| picked up. Biggest evidence that Best 
| Practices guide, eight pages long, is that 
| every insurer of errors and omissions 
| (required for broadcast and cablecast) 
| accepts guide.
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http://www.publicknowledge.org/node/2842

UK Ministers 'Concede' Some Ridiculous Points in Digital Economy Bill In Attempt To Get Other Ridiculous Measures

,----[ Quote ]
| Of course, the concessions appear to be 
| rather minor, and my more cynical view is 
| that they knew they were going to do this 
| all along. The idea is simple. Introduce one 
| section that's even more ridiculous and 
| outrageous than the sections you really want 
| passed, and then let all the complaints and 
| press coverage focus on that more ridiculous 
| section. Then, after people get all worked 
| up about it, "concede" just a little bit, 
| and notice that most people no longer have 
| the energy to fight about the other 
| provisions.
`----

http://techdirt.com/articles/20100113/0726527726.shtml

The real problem with clause 17

,----[ Quote ]
| There has been much speculation around 
| clause 17 of the Digital Economy Bill, the 
| part that would give the unelected Lord 
| Mandelson powers to rewrite copyright law 
| whenever he chooses, grant powers to others 
| at a whim, or impose duties or fines on 
| anyone who offends him.
`----

http://www.pirateparty.org.uk/blog/2010/jan/14/real-problem-clause-17/

Congressman Vows to Fight for Fair Use

,----[ Quote ]
| A U.S. lawmaker today warned of attempts to 
| roll back a provision in copyright law that 
| has become a cornerstone of posting and 
| sharing content on the Internet, pledging to 
| fight to preserve the doctrine of fair use 
| in the face of an array of challenges.
`----

http://www.internetnews.com/government/article.php/3858026/


Recent:

Constitutionality of RIAA Damages Challenged

,----[ Quote ]
| In SONY BMG Music Entertainment v.
| Tenenbaum, defendant has filed a motion
| for new trial, attacking, among other
| things, the constitutionality of the
| jury's $675,000 award as being violative
| of due process.
`----

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/01/04/195208/Constitutionality-of-RIAA-Damages-Challenged


Did File-Sharing Make Wolverine a Hit?

,----[ Quote ]
| Accept No Substitutes: The Pirated Version
| of "Woverine" is Not Nearly as Good There
| is a mind-blowing cover story by Jonah
| Lehrer in the January 2010 issue  of Wired
| that suggests that scientists, instead of
| being neutral observers searching  for
| objective âtruth,â actually begin do
| experiments to prove that their
| preconceptions are right.  When they find
| contrary evidence, they either ignore it,
| or figure their equipment or methodology
| is faulty.  To paraphrase Paul Simon in
| âThe Boxer,â they see what they want to
| see and disregard the rest.
`----

http://speedcine.com/blog/post/2010/01/03/Did-File-Sharing-Make-Wolverine-a-Hit.aspx


Biden Convenes 'Piracy Summit' That Appears To Be Entirely One-Sided

,----[ Quote ]
| Notice that there aren't any consumer rights
| representatives. No one from technology
| companies. No one representing a viewpoint
| from outside of these industries of how they
| might be abusing claims of "piracy" to prop
| up obsolete business models. Instead, it's
| just the echo chamber. The same folks who
| have been misleading politicians for ages.
| And, of course, whenever you get a summit
| like this, expect some sort of misguided
| "action" to follow. Update: Public Knowledge
| has put out a statement, noting how one-
| sided this gathering is, and questioning why
| politicians are attending what appears to be
| an industry gathering on how to prop up a
| business model. Update 2: In the press
| release (pdf) about this, Biden's office has
| the gall to claim this "will bring together
| all of the stakeholders." Ha! It's 100%
| entertainment industry interests. No tech.
| No consumer advocates. No ISPs. This is a
| complete joke. Update 3: This just gets more
| and more ridiculous. Reporter Ryan Reilly
| was covering the "summit," posting the
| seating chart and quoting Biden as saying
| that "piracy" is "flat unadulterated theft"
| but it looks like Reilly has now been kicked
| out of the summit. Openness and transparency
| apparently doesn't apply when it involves
| propping up one small industry's obsolete
| business model.
`----

http://techdirt.com/articles/20091215/0200387354.shtml
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