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No end in sight for 50-year copyright levies war
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| 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.
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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?
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| 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.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20100112/2339157722.shtml
French 3 Strikes Group Unveils Copyright Infringing Logo
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| 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.
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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
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| 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.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20100107/0307597649.shtml
Record Labels Demand Cash From Pirate Bay Founders
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| 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.
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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...
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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
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| 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.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20100112/0610087715.shtml
U.S. court revives antitrust suit on music downloads
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| 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.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE60C3Y020100113
Record labels face US antitrust hearing
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| 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.
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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
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| 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
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| 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.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20100113/0726527726.shtml
The real problem with clause 17
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| 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.
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http://www.pirateparty.org.uk/blog/2010/jan/14/real-problem-clause-17/
Congressman Vows to Fight for Fair Use
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| 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.
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http://www.internetnews.com/government/article.php/3858026/
Recent:
Constitutionality of RIAA Damages Challenged
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| 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.
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http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/01/04/195208/Constitutionality-of-RIAA-Damages-Challenged
Did File-Sharing Make Wolverine a Hit?
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| 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.
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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
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| 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.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20091215/0200387354.shtml
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