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Dutch Judges Plagiarize, Potentially Infringe, Blog Post In Decision About Copyright
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| What makes it even worse, of course, is
| that the quoted/plagiarized/infringing bit
| might not even be accurate. As we
| discussed in our own post on the subject,
| there appears to be significant
| disagreement over whether or not embedding
| authorized content could be seen as
| infringing -- and apparently, there is a
| widespread debate about it in Dutch legal
| circles as well, saying that it is far
| from readily agreed upon in the legal
| literature.
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http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100128/0044267959.shtml
Labels: Lower Music Prices And Increase Your Profits, Study Says
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| Anyone who still remembers the basic
| principle of Economics 101 understands, on
| a gut level, one big problem with recorded
| music: It costs too much.
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http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/01/labels-lower-music-prices-and-increase-your-profits-study-says
News.com Prevents Falsely Accused Grandmother Of Getting Kicked Off The Internet By The MPAA
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| Greg Sandoval, over at News.com recently
| came across a grandmother who was falsely
| accused multiple times of file sharing,
| and her ISP, Qwest, was threatening to
| kick her off the internet. We had not
| heard that Qwest had signed on with a
| "three strikes" program, so it's a bit of
| news that it's one of the companies who
| will accept bogus accusations. Not only
| that, but Qwest even told her that no
| other provider would grant her service
| because Qwest would let those other
| service providers "know her name and what
| she did." Thanks, Qwest!
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http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100201/1014577990.shtml
David Fincher on copyright clearances
http://blog.ryjones.org/2010/01/28/david-fincher-on-copyright-clearances/
Authors: Don't Make the Buddy Holly Mistake
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| Listening to Holly pleading with the
| masters he has alienated his rights to is
| heartbreaking. Decca had dropped him,
| apparently, but had the rights to sit on
| his recordings for 5 years. Although they
| had no intention of releasing the songs,
| they also would not give Holly permission
| to do so--the cigar-chomping executive
| kept saying "well, we got a lot of money
| tied up in them, Buddy!" But Holly offered
| to reimburse those costs; no dice.
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http://www.againstmonopoly.org/index.php?perm=593056000000002475
Copyright, companies, individuals and news: the rules of the road
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| On 5 January, the Independent's website
| ran a photo uploaded to the Flickr image-
| sharing site by user Peter Zabulis.
| Zabulis flagged his photo of a snowed-over
| field as "all rights reserved," and he
| took exception to the Independent's use of
| the image without permission, and he wrote
| to them to tell them so.
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| Exception turned to outrage as a terse
| note from the Independent claimed that by
| posting the photo to Flickr, Zabulis had
| not asserted his copyright (whatever that
| means) and thus copyright had not been
| breached.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/jan/26/copyright-cory-doctorow
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