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Imprisoned Terrorist, Carlos The Jackal, Claims Intellectual Property Over Documentary About His Life
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| In the past, we've seen various attempts by
| people to claim they had some sort of
| intellectual property right over a TV show
| or movie about them, but those claims rarely
| get very far. We've also seen people in
| prison with too much time on their hands
| suddenly claim IP rights over their name or
| likeness.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20100128/0201587960.shtml
Classical artists such as Hilary Hahn chart big on Billboard with little sales
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| On Jan. 14, the violinist Hilary Hahn scored
| a rare gig for a classical music performer:
| She appeared on "The Tonight Show." And not
| just any "Tonight Show," but the "Tonight
| Show" during the final days of Conan
| O'Brien's brief tenure as host. Everybody
| was watching. So it came as no surprise that
| Hahn's new album, "Bach: Violin and Voice,"
| debuted that week at No. 1 on the Billboard
| classical charts.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/29/AR2010012904193.html
Has The Recording Industry Reached The Bargaining Stage Of Grief?
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| This is the second year that I was
| privileged to attend (and speak) at Midem,
| the big music industry conference that takes
| place each January.
|
| [...]
|
| Instead, the word that I kept hearing was
| "quiet." Almost everyone you spoke to
| mentioned how "quiet" Midem was this year.
| Attendance was down (apparently about 10%
| from last year, when I remember them saying
| that attendance had also been down about
| 10%), but that's not too surprising given
| the state of the economy and the general
| turmoil of the industry.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20100201/0126377984.shtml
Telecoms package to end uncontested
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| The EU is reportedly on the cusp of
| undermining Internet users' fundamental
| freedoms for good as the European Council is
| putting pressure on MEPs to agree to a
| watered-down version of the telecoms package
| tomorrow (4 November), making it possible to
| cut off the Web connections of suspected
| illegal downloaders without a fair trial.
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http://www.euractiv.com/en/infosociety/telecoms-package-uncontested/article-187001
p2pnet â last post
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| Iâm closing down. And so is Wikileaks.
|
| âTo concentrate on raising the funds
| necessary to keep us alive into 2010, we
| have reluctantly suspended all other
| operations, but will be back soon,â it says.
| âWe protect the world â but will you protect
| us?â
|
| I canât claim p2pnet has been protecting the
| world, but Iâve done my best to unspin some
| of the vested interest corporate spin, and
| expose a few of the lies and corruption.
|
| I launched p2pnet close to 10 years ago and
| in that time Iâve published thousands of
| pages on topics ranging from Big Musicâs
| black-hearted persecution of its own
| customers, through the CBCâs amazing new US
| licensing plan to Is Michael Bublà a pot
| head? and The Wonder that is iPad!, to quote
| from some of todayâs posts.
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http://www.p2pnet.net/story/34986
Update â FT article full text
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| Unfortunately, in the copyright realm, the
| Obama administration had devoted itself,
| like its predecessors, largely to a content
| industry agenda which has given us mind-
| numbingly long copyright terms, intrusive
| legally backed digital rights management,
| and even a new proposal to cut individuals
| off from the internet simply for being
| accused, three times, of illicit
| downloading.
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http://www.thepublicdomain.org/2010/02/02/update-ft-article-full-text/
Abundance Creates Utility But Destroys Exchange Value
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| The cognitive capitalism and New Growth
| Theory models are an updated version of
| Daniel Bellâs âpost-industrialâ thesis. The
| problem is, post-industrialism is self-
| liquidating. Technological progress destroys
| the technical prerequisites for capturing
| value from technological progress.
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http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/abundance-creates-utility-but-destroys-exchange-value/2010/02/02
Craigslist Et Al Take $13.6 Billion Out Of Classified Ads Sector
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| Rick Edmonds, over on Poynter Online, notes
| that the classified ads sector dropped to $6
| billion in 2009. This compares with $10
| billion in 2008, and $19.6 billion in 2000.
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http://www.siliconvalleywatcher.com/mt/archives/2010/02/wow_craigslist.php
âInkâ â The Movie That Blew Up On BitTorrent
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| In November 2009, an indie movie received
| unprecedented worldwide attention after
| becoming a massive hit on BitTorrent
| networks. âInkâ, which was downloaded well
| in excess of 400,000 times, shot into the
| top 20 movies on iMDb. In a new interview,
| the creators talk about their experience and
| the future of movie distribution.
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http://torrentfreak.com/ink-the-movie-that-blew-up-on-bittorrent-100205/
Landmark ISP liability case decided in Australia
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| This is a lengthy and complex ruling, but it
| is remarkable that it has fallen upon a
| judge that seems to get the importance of
| the ruling in the wider context, and also
| who got the technical complexities involved.
| Cowdroy J has managed to wade through the
| technical issues with exceptional clarity,
| and has produced a ruling that should become
| an instant classic. The judge accurately
| identifies that the case hinges on two
| simple questions. Have the iiNet customers
| infringed copyright directly? The answer is
| yes.
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http://www.technollama.co.uk/landmark-isp-liability-case-decided-in-australia
UCLA professors banned from posting videos online
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| As of winter quarter 2010, teachers are no
| longer permitted to post videos on their
| course Web sites.
|
| The Association for Information Media and
| Equipment, a trade organization, has accused
| UCLA of infringing on copyright laws.
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http://www.dailybruin.com/articles/2010/1/25/ucla-professors-banned-posting-videos-online/
Recent:
Music Industry Set For Civil Action Against OiNK
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| Alan Ellis, the ex-admin of the OiNK
| BitTorrent tracker, was cleared of Conspiracy
| to Defraud by jury of his peers last week.
| But now it seems that as one battle ends,
| another begins. IFPI says it is considering
| civil action, and is committed to reclaiming
| the money donated to the site in order to
| give it back to the artists.
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http://torrentfreak.com/music-industry-set-for-civil-action-against-oink-100121/
Pigopolists wants another stab at OiNK
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| John Kennedy, chief executive of the
| International Federation of the
| Phonographic Industry (IFPI), said the
| industry is considering civil proceedings
| against Ellis in a second bid to collect
| the Â180,000 it claims he made from running
| the invite-only file sharing website.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/01/21/ifpi_oink_action_annual_report/
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