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Judge lowers Jammie Thomas' piracy penalty
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| Last June, a federal jury in Minnesota found
| Jammie Thomas-Rasset liable for willful
| copyright infringement and ordered her to
| pay nearly $2 million. Michael Davis, chief
| judge for the U.S. District Court for the
| District of Minnesota, chopped the amount to
| $54,000, or $2,250 per song.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-31001_3-10439636-261.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Digital Economy Bill: Rightsholders Will Shoulder Most Three-Strikes Costs
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| The original bill had proposed ISPs and
| rightsholders split policing costs 50-50.
| But Timms, in a speech at the Oxford Media
| Convention on Thursday, said the government
| is issuing a âdraft statutory instrumentâ
| that requires the likes of labels and
| studios to pay more. They will be the
| âprimary beneficiariesâ of the proposed
| graduated-response scheme, Timms said: âThe
| benefits of what we are doing will go to the
| rightsholders. So I have not been convinced
| by the arguments of rights holders that the
| Internet companies should bear much of the
| costs.â
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http://paidcontent.co.uk/article/419-digital-economy-bill-rightsholders-will-shoulder-most-three-strikes-cos/
Music biz: piracy our "climate change," governments must act!
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| The global music industry trade group IFPI
| has released its Digital Music Report 2010,
| a 30-page document that makes a single
| argument: copyright infringement is a form
| of "climate change" for creative industries,
| and "we look to governments for action."
|
| According to this view of the world, the
| music business has now tried its hand at
| being "innovative" and "customer focused."
| It disaggregated albums, it allowed music to
| go up on everything from Amazon to iTunes to
| Spotify to Last.fm. It sued users, it
| launched education campaigns. Nothing
| worked. It's now time for governments to
| step up.
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http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/01/music-biz-piracy-our-climate-change-governments-must-act.ars
Pirate Bayâs Ipredator VPN Opens To The Public
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| After months of waiting, the Ipredator
| anonymity service from the founders of The
| Pirate Bay has finally opened its doors to
| the public. For 5 euros a month users can
| now hide all their Internet traffic,
| including torrent downloads, from third
| party outfits who might want to spy on their
| downloading habits.
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http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bays-ipredator-vpn-opens-to-the-public-090120/
Promise of a post-illegal copy world. Part I: History of Intellectual Property
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| Along with the discussions, a lot of
| inaccuracies and lacks in the image of
| reality presented to humanity by RIAA, MPAA,
| MAFIAA and other corporate lobbyists
| appeared. Because I hate lies and injustice,
| I decided not to tolerate the false
| propaganda and to write this article which
| is a finial of few years of thinking,
| mentioned discussions and arguments used by
| both sides of the barricade.
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http://polishlinux.org/gnu/promise-of-a-post-illegal-copy-world-part-i-history-of-intellectual-property/
Submissions on Canada-EU Trade Deal: Canadian Publishers' Council Seek Term Extension, Database Rt
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| Concluding the review of submissions to
| DFAIT regarding the Canada-EU Trade
| Agreement, the submission of the Canadian
| Publishers' Council is important because it
| highlights the hopes of those lobbying for
| extensive new copyright reforms. The
| submission makes clear that those groups
| hope that CETA could force Canada into
| reforms such as copyright term extension and
| the creation of new database protection...
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http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/4718/125/
Recent:
Secret copyright treaty debated in DC: must-see video
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| Two recurring points that Metalitz raised
| were that the secrecy in the treaty was a
| requirement of foreign negotiating
| partners, and the US's hands were tied; and
| that the treaty wouldn't require any of the
| "advanced" nations to change their law (he
| repeated the oft-heard unfounded slur that
| Canada is a rogue nation when it comes to
| copyright law).
|
| Both of these points are simply wrong. The
| country demanding that ACTA be kept secret
| is the good old US of A, whose strategy for
| this is being driven by former
| entertainment industry lawyers who have
| found new homes as senior officials in the
| Obama government (the Democrats are
| terrible on copyright, sadly -- we can
| thank Bill Clinton for the Digital
| Millennium Copyright Act). These lawyers
| are Metalitz's old pals, his colleagues in
| the decades he's spent winning special
| privileges and public subsidy for his rich
| clients.
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http://www.boingboing.net/2010/01/15/secret-copyright-tre-2.html
Oh, a new ACTA document
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| How do you request it? Very simple, fill out
| the form and enter the document number
| 17779/09 as the document you request. Then
| the Council secretariat has 15 days to
| respond, either it would grant you access
| and submit the reasons for refusal.
|
| Here is stops for most persons. You have
| against 15 days for a confirmatory
| application. When the confirmatory
| application is denied you can complain to
| the EU-Ombudsman or sue the Commission.
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http://arebentisch.wordpress.com/2010/01/10/oh-a-new-acta-document/
Google DC Talk on ACTA
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| Why does DG Trade want criminal sanctions
| from third nations when these instruments
| are not adopted in the âacquis
| communautaireâ yet? Unfortunately we cannot
| find out in their negotiation mandate from
| the Council because it is not disclosed.
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http://arebentisch.wordpress.com/2010/01/10/oh-a-new-acta-document/
Personal Luggage Will be Subject to ACTA
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| One of the fairy tales being told about the
| oppressive ACTA is that it's only going to
| apply to large-scale criminal offenders, and
| that the Little People like you and me don't
| need to worry our pretty heads. But that's a
| lie, as this fascinating blog post has
| discovered:
|
| It was very interesting to talk to Mr.
| Velasco. He said the negotiations could
| be understood, in a very very simplified
| way, as you basically could get cheap
| cars in exchange for IPR enforecement
| laws.
|
| Interestingly enough, his materials
| published on the interenet also provided
| some kind of explanation to why people
| are afraid of having their iPods
| searched. Under "What is new" in a
| presentation about Enforcement of IPR
| Mr. Velasco says:
|
| [it] "No longer excludes from the scope
| of the regulation counterfeit or pirated
| goods in a traveler's personal baggage
| where such goods are suspected to be
| part of a larger-scale traffic."
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2010/01/personal-luggage-will-be-subject-to.html
Union des Consommateurs ACTA protest
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| Quebec consumer protection group the Union
| des Consommateurs has joined the mounting
| storm of outrage levelled at the
| entertaiment industryâs ACTA plan.
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http://www.p2pnet.net/story/33691
Explaining The Copyright Bubble... And Why Big Corporations Want To Keep ACTA Secret
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| But, still, they will try, and the way they
| try to do it is in backrooms and convincing
| governments that they must be right, and
| increased protectionism really is better for
| everyone -- even though it's really only
| better for a select group of middlemen.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20100110/2302157699.shtml
Reading Between The Still Secret Lines Of The ACTA Negotiations
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| Yesterday I attended a fascinating panel
| discussion about ACTA, hosted by Google at
| its Washington DC offices, as a lead-in to
| today's World Fair Use Day event. The four
| participants each brought a different
| perspective to the panel, though only one,
| Steve Metalitz, a lawyer who represents a
| coalition of entertainment industry
| interests, was there to defend ACTA. Jamie
| Love of KEI was his main sparring partner,
| though Jonathan Band (a lawyer representing
| various tech and library organizations) made
| plenty of insightful points as well. The
| final participant was a legislative staffer
| from Rep. Zoe Lofgren's office, Ryan Clough,
| who tiptoed the line of expressing some
| concern about ACTA, without fully coming out
| against it.
|
| [...]
|
| On top of that, Band pointed out, within
| TRIPS and WIPO there are numerous developing
| countries who are recognizing -- correctly --
| that strict IP enforcement is designed solely
| to benefit a small group of companies in
| developed nations at the expense of the
| people in developing nations. Thus, they're
| starting to push back on IP expansion.
| Combine all that, and you get ACTA -- an
| entirely new forum to take on these issues,
| which (conveniently) only includes developed
| nations and leaves out the developing nations
| who had become so pesky. Metalitz pulled out
| the "but this won't really change US law"
| gambit, to which Band pointed out that the
| real goal here was never to make huge changes
| to US law, but to eventually force all those
| developing nations to go along. Basically,
| you get the developed nations to agree to
| ACTA, written by the big copyright players,
| and then you start putting pressure on
| developing nations about how they need to
| conform to ACTA as well to join the club.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20100111/2149377710.shtml
Karel de Gucht grilled
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| The Trade Commissioner-designate De Gucht will
| be grilled before the European Parliament INTA
| committee, Tuesday 12 January 9-12h. While the
| Council told me that ACTA was not about
| legislation the new.
|
| [...]
|
| The Korean FTA is a good example. What else
| than legislation is included in the IP
| chapter? De Gucht seems to be unaware of the
| problem that the trade portfolio is abused for
| âpolicy laundryâ, and an international
| legislative process.
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http://arebentisch.wordpress.com/2010/01/08/karel-de-gucht-grilled/
Vanessa Hudgens Claims Copyright in DÃcolletÃe Images of Herself
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| Generally speaking, the subject of a
| photograph does not have copyrights
| therein. These accrue to the photographer,
| unless there is a contract to the
| contrary.
|
| Actress Vanessa Hudgens has apparently
| been shocked to find full frontal, nude
| images of herself on the Internet,
| specifically on the site of
| moejackson.com, but as tends to happen
| with such things, the images are already
| available more widely.
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http://blog.ipfactor.co.il/2009/12/28/vanessa-hudgens-claims-copyright-in-decolletee-images-of-herself/
Senator Demands IP Treaty Details
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| That a U.S. senator must ask a federal
| agency to share information regarding a
| proposed and âclassifiedâ international
| anti-counterfeiting accord the government
| has already disclosed is alarming.
| Especially when the info has been given to
| Hollywood, the recording industry,
| software makers and even some digital-
| rights groups.
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http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/01/senator-demands-details/
TransLink's new copyright deal means fee hike for buskers
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| Buskers at SkyTrain stations in Vancouver
| are about to get an Olympic-sized price
| hike as TransLink negotiates a deal with
| the Society of Composers, Music Publishers
| and Authors of Canada - the Canadian body
| that collects licensing fees on
| copyrighted music.
|
| The arrangement, set to be finalized by
| Feb. 1, will cost the transit service $880
| per station per year and the hefty price
| hike will almost certainly result in
| higher licensing fees for buskers. Right
| now, TransLink buskers pay an annual
| licence fee of $75.
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http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/translinks-new-copyright-deal-means-fee-hike-for-buskers/article1421773/
First 2010 Google D.C. Talk on ACTA: the global treaty that could reshape the Internet
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| The panel will tackle important questions
| like: Will ACTA preserve the existing
| balance in intellectual property laws,
| providing not just enforcement for
| copyright holders but also appropriate
| exceptions for technology creators and
| users? Will it undermine the legal safe
| harbors that have allowed virtually every
| Internet service to come into existence?
| And will it encourage governments to
| endorse "three strikes" penalties that
| would take away a user's access to the
| Internet?
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http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/2010/01/first-2010-google-dc-talk-on-acta.html
UK Gov't On ACTA: Lack of Transparency Not In the Public Interest
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| The UK Government discusses the lack of
| transparency in an EU access to
| information request:
|
| "More broadly with respect to ACTA the UK
| considers that transparency is crucial to
| ensure the legitimacy of the agreement and
| to stop the spread of rumours. We believe
| the lack of transparency is unhelpful and
| do not believe that it is in the public
| interest."
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http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/4657/196/
Marshall interview on ACTA with the Commission
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| An unnamed official from the Commission
| responds to good and deep ACTA questions
| from journalist Rosalie Marshall.
|
| They say the secrecy of the mandate of the
| EU-Commission is crucial:
|
| We canât make the mandate public
| because it defines the limits of where
| the EU is prepared to go with the
| agreement. If it is made public and
| other countries gained access to it
| they would know how far we will go or
| not go with the negotiations. This
| could make their tasks a lot easier.
| Itâs like if you are buying a used car
| and you already know how low the
| seller will go with the price.
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http://arebentisch.wordpress.com/2010/01/05/marshall-interview-on-acta-with-the-commission/
DOJ Recommends FCC Quickly Free up More Spectrum
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| Supporting existing and new wireless
| broadband providers is key to encouraging
| broadband competition, the U.S. Department
| of Justice advised the U.S. Federal
| Communications Commission on Monday.
|
| In a filing submitted in response to an
| FCC request for comments on its national
| broadband plan, the DOJ said that it's
| unrealistic to try to promote "textbook
| markets of perfect competition" since the
| provision of broadband services is so
| costly. "Rather, promoting competition is
| likely to take the form of enabling
| additional entry and expansion by wireless
| broadband providers," among other
| activities, the DOJ wrote.
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/185815/doj_recommends_fcc_quickly_free_up_more_spectrum.html?tk=rss_news
And the draft of the ACTA reply to me in English
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| So here is a Council draft document in
| English to the reply to my secondary
| request for document access related to an
| ACTA criminal provisions document.
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http://arebentisch.wordpress.com/2010/01/01/and-the-draft-of-the-acta-reply-to-me-in-english/
ACTA secondary application answered
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| Formally, I could go to Court now or
| invoke the ombudsman.
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http://arebentisch.wordpress.com/2010/01/01/acta-secondary-application-answered/
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