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No, Copyright Has Never Been About Protecting Labor
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| Ugh. So, we recently wrote about Matthew
| Yglesias' quite accurate economic
| explanation for why the price of music was
| going to get pushed to zero, no matter what
| the industry said or what happened with
| copyright law.
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http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100204/1601318056.shtml
Appeals Court Says Internet Content Should Be Held To Standards Of Strictest Jurisdiction
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| Of course, the court did say that
| punishment had to be limited to just
| looking at how many people in that smaller
| community accessed the content -- which
| could limit the punishment given by the
| court, but it still seems problematic.
| Other courts, including one in California,
| have found differently on similar
| questions, so it seems likely that, at some
| point, this issue will finally go back to
| the Supreme Court. Unfortunately, it seems
| likely that the Supreme Court will focus on
| what counts as "community standards" rather
| than whether or not laws against obscenity
| even make legal sense under the First
| Amendment.
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http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100205/1309128066.shtml
The Pirate Bay To Be Censored in Italy, Again
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| Following a lengthy legal procedure the
| Court of Bergamo has once again ruled that
| Italian ISPs have to censor their networks
| and prevent customer access to The Pirate
| Bay. Millions of Italian Internet users
| will be denied access to the popular
| torrent site in an attempt to prevent
| copyright infringement.
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http://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-to-be-censored-in-italy-again-100207/
Authors Guild: âTo RIAA or Not to RIAAâ
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| Thereâs equal reason to support or object
| to the proposed Google Books settlement.
|
| Creating a digital catalog of the worldsâ
| words might be the Holy Grail of
| intellectual empowerment.
|
| Yet building that library in the clouds
| would be allowed without the rights-
| holdersâ consent â which the Justice
| Department and others contend is a complete
| and fundamental alteration of copyright
| law.
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http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/02/authors-guild-to-riaa-or-not-to-riaa/
Oink.CD â Oinkâs Pink Palace Part Two
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| This is the second, of a long series of
| posts about OINK.CD, the music file sharing
| site run by Alan Ellis, and Alanâs
| acquittal on charges of Conspiracy to
| Defraud. My apologies for the delay â I
| have been trying to obtain information on
| the case, and while I have obtained some of
| what I need, Iâm still working on getting
| more.
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http://madhatter.ca/?p=160
IP is not a joke
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| After another comedian, the taping ended.
| We were informed that the crowd had to stay
| put because Bob Kelly had to come out and
| re-film a joke. It was the joke I just
| mentioned. They said it had to be re-taped
| because Comedy Central didnât have the
| rights to the song âWe Are The Worldâ. (My
| guess is it probably wasnât worth it to
| them to obtain the rights, for 1 or 2
| seconds of a joke). How ridiculous is
| this? FOUR WORDS! We then had to hear the
| same joke, slightly modified, again, and
| pretend and cheer for it like we never
| heard it before. I am interested in seeing
| the final edited product, whenever it
| eventually airs.
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http://www.stephankinsella.com/2010/02/07/ip-is-not-a-joke/
Members of European Parliaments ask when they will receive the ACTA documents
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| Some Member of the European Parliament have
| asked when they will receive the ACTA
| documents, mentioning the Lisbon Treaty
| article 218 which says that the Parliament
| have to be "fully informed" of the
| negotiations. The new trade commissioner
| Karel DeGucht said previously that the
| Lisbon Treaty do not apply to ACTA, because
| the confidentiality of the talks were
| negotiated before.
|
| Some Member of the European Parliament are
| asking the Commission and the Council when
| they plan to respect the Lisbon Treaty on
| ACTA, where the next Trade Commissioner
| Karel DeGucht said in a hearing that the
| Lisbon Treaty does not apply to the ACTA
| negotiations, because the confidentiality
| rules were negotiated before the entry into
| force of the Treaty.
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http://www.digitalmajority.org/forum/t-217750/members-of-european-parliaments-ask-when-they-will-receive-the-acta-documents
Commissioner Ferrero-Waldner answers ACTA internet chapter question
http://arebentisch.wordpress.com/2010/02/07/commissioner-ferrero-waldner-answers-acta-internet-chapter-question/
Copyfighter Cory Doctorow.
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| Thanks in no small part to Mr. Doctorow you
| can now get your ACTA news from a number of
| sources, including a weekly podcast that I
| help out with. To read his latest you can
| bookmark his blog, follow him on Twitter
| and keep an eye out for his posts on Boing
| Boing.
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http://openattitude.com/2010/02/08/copyfighter-cory-doctorow/
Dear Helena Bonham Carter, How Do You Pay Your BT Bill Online?
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| Even though you don't know me, we do in
| fact share at least two things in common.
| Like you, I also have a double-barrelled
| surname, and as you live in the UK, there's
| a good chance you're also a British Telecom
| customer, and probably have an Internet
| subscription (although not necessarily with
| BT).
|
| The reason I'm writing you this open
| letter, is to enquire whether you pay your
| BT bill online, and if so then how? You
| see, I've discovered a rather annoying
| feature of BT: They seem to be biased
| against us double-barrellers.
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http://slated.org/Dear_Helena_Bonham_Carter
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