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Archers Daniel Midland abuses copyright law to censor criticism â corporations have the right to free speech, but not the people who criticize them?
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| ADM has, top it mildly, been the subject of
| considerable ire, criticism, and even
| criminal prosecution for price fixing (the
| subject of Matt Damonâs recent film The
| Informant and Fair Fight in the
| Marketplace, an excerpt of which appears
| belowâs Woertzâs blathering), political
| corruption, destruction of the rainforests,
| and the forced labor of children.
|
| [...]
|
| This is outright copyright abuse. Criticism
| is fair use. When anyone asks whether in
| fact fair use is grounded in the
| Constitutionâs guarantee of free speech,
| all you need is to think of a situation
| like this â one can appropriate copyrighted
| works to criticize and parody the copyright
| holder. And to use the copyright laws to
| silence that critique has nothing to do with protecting intellectual property and the rights of a creator to profit from his, her, or its creation: itâs unconstitutional censorship! (Peter Bouchard wrote a good summary yesterday on â The Battle against Bogus
Takedowns, a topic Iâve touched on in the past.â
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http://blogs.geniocity.com/friedman/2010/02/archers-daniel-midland-abuses-copyright-law-to-censor-criticism/
Pete Bouchard and the Battle Against Bogus Takedowns
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| Either way, this lack of concern for fair
| use is common: A music publisher tried to
| silence a critical podcast. A blogger
| sought to block an advocacy ad. Opponents
| of same-sex marriage looked to remove an
| unflattering YouTube clip. These and other
| "Takedown Hall of Shame" inductees likely
| think that it is difficult to punish a
| copyright holder for failing to consider
| fair use (it's hard to prove), and probably
| take comfort in the fact that many ordinary
| Internet users lack the knowledge, time, or
| resources necessary to challenge the
| takedown.
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http://www.citmedialaw.org/blog/2010/pete-bouchard-and-battle-against-bogus-takedowns
South Butt Responds To North Face As Only It Could
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| You gotta love snarky legal filings. We've
| already covered the ongoing saga between
| the clothing company behind The North Face
| and a teenager who started a parody line of
| clothing called The South Butt (short
| version, TNF got mad and despite lots of
| public outcry in favor of TSB, TNF's parent
| company sued). You already knew that the
| folks behind The South Butt wouldn't
| necessarily respond in a conventional
| manner. They had already set up a Facebook
| app to see if people could tell the
| difference between a face and a butt.
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http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100202/0325398008.shtml
Writers Of 'Back Pockets On The Floor' Claim 'Pants On The Ground' Ripped Them Off...
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| Just start shaking your head now, because
| your level of disbelief should only
| increase as this post goes on. We recently
| wrote about how "General" Larry Platt, the
| latest YouTube viral sensation for his
| American Idol appearance with the song
| "Pants On The Ground" was lawyering up, as
| he felt that he wasn't getting money he
| deserved from everyone talking about and
| "covering" his song. Of course, he failed
| to register the copyright, so his remedies
| were pretty limited. We suggested that he
| focus on actually releasing the song
| himself and looking to capitalize on it in
| other ways... and it looks like he's doing
| just that. But even that is mired in claims
| of copyright infringement. And... then
| there's an argument making the rounds that
| Platt himself "ripped off" the song that
| made him famous from someone else, but
| we'll get to that at the end.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20100204/0248138051.shtml
CBC: When We Said Blogs Would Need Permission To Quote Us, We Didn't Really Mean It
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| The real issue here is that, once again,
| you have people making rules who think they
| understand what copyright is for, and they
| don't recognize what it really means at
| all.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20100202/1848558018.shtml
WHDH weatherman inches into some trouble
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| âIn Princeton, we picked up 9 inches of
| snow, Billerica had 7,â the weatherman
| said.
|
| âThe biggest amount that I could find â
| almost as big as me,â Bouchard said as he
| stepped closer to the camera, shifted his
| eyes sideways and added, âAbout nine 9
| inches.â
|
| The video quickly became an Internet
| sensation, leading many to believe Bouchard
| was making an off-color joke.
|
| [...]
|
| Channel 7 yanked the clip off YouTube
| citing a copyright claim, and the station
| doesnât intend to address the blooper on
| air.
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http://www.bostonherald.com/blogs/news/mediaBiz/index.php/2010/01/21/whdh-weatherman-inches-into-some-trouble/
Recent:
Oz gov suggests world's worst copyright protection scheme
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| In their submission, Electronic Frontiers Australia (EFA) have expressed
| concern that "the proposed legislation provides a very broad exception to the
| prohibition on interception of network communications for the purposes of
| ensuring that a network is "appropriately used"".
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/08/14/australia_copyright_scheme/
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