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IFPI Loses âDeep-Linkingâ Case Against Baidu
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| In 2008, Baidu was sued for around $9
| million by Sony BMG, Universal Music and
| Warner Music for providing so-called âdeep-
| linksâ to copyright music tracks. A court
| has now ruled that providing search results
| does not breach copyright law, clearing
| Chinaâs biggest search engine of wrong-
| doing.
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http://torrentfreak.com/ifpi-loses-deep-linking-case-against-baidu-100126/
Piracy letter campaign 'nets innocents'
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| More than 150 people have approached
| consumer publication Which? Computing
| claiming to have been wrongly targeted in
| crackdowns on illegal file-sharing.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8481790.stm
Copyright, companies, individuals and news: the rules of the road
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| This is just a partial list, and it may
| strike you as radical. But before you
| dismiss it, consider this: most copyright
| systems are supposed to work this way in
| theory. But between corporate bullies who
| like to assert that "all rights reserved"
| means that no one is allowed to do anything
| without permission, and personal theories
| of what copyright means based on half-
| remembered lectures from the company
| lawyer, we treat copyright as absolute. And
| when we do, we turn a system with a real
| purpose (providing a framework for
| participants in creative businesses) into a
| caricature of itself, one that no one can
| respect.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/jan/26/copyright-cory-doctorow
Recent:
Is IP another bubble about to burst? A view from another civilization.
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| As a child growing up in India, one of the
| first things I learned is a hymn to
| Saraswati, the Goddess of Knowledge, which
| says that:
|
| Wonderful is your gift of knowledge
| the more we share, the more it grows
| the more we hoard it, the more it diminishes
|
| As a grown-up living in a globalized world,
| I am constantly bombarded by the the term,
| âintellectual property.â Policy makers keep
| saying that India should create more IP.
| Countless seminars extol the virtues of IP
| even as patents are granted for âMethod for
| swinging on a swing,â "Method for Concealing
| Partial Baldness." In the computer industry,
| patents are routinely granted for things
| that are obvious and have been known for
| years. Things have come to such a pass that
| even an industry veteran like Andy Grove was
| forced to say that, âThe true value of an
| invention is its usefulness to the public.
| Patents themselves have become products.
| They're instruments of investment traded on
| a separate market, often by speculators
| motivated by the highest financial return on
| their investment....
|
| [...]
|
| When we look back on our times, we may find
| that the term, "Intellectual Property" has
| taken its place along side another archaic
| term, "Horseless Carriage." Both were
| attempts to impose metaphors of the past on
| the future. And the folly of our times is
| that we treat inexhaustible resources like
| knowledge as finite resource and treat
| finite resources like oil and forests as
| infinite resources. The sooner we turn these
| attitudes around, the better it will be for
| the future of mankind.
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http://opensource.com/law/09/12/ip-another-bubble-about-burst-view-another-civilization
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