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Redbox Caves To Warner Bros., Will Delay New Movie Releases From Kiosks
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| The whole thing makes no sense at all.
| Warner Bros. mistakenly thinks that if
| people can't rent a particular DVD in the
| first four weeks of release, they're more
| likely to shell out money to actually buy
| the DVD. This is Warner Bros. pretending
| that it can influence customer behavior by
| denying them what they want.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20100216/1449188186.shtml
Viacom CEO: We Need To Pay Less For Music In Videogames
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| Lower licensing fees and more selective
| video game companies could be bad news for
| some music companies. Video games have
| provided a boost to licensing revenues and
| overall awareness for many artists. But
| sales are down sharply. An analyst with
| Wedbush Securities estimated, that two-
| thirds of Decemberâs 12% year-over-year
| decline in video game sales came from the
| music category.
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http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/content_display/industry/e3ib5173b54f64bf8d208b13bce1a54d2cf
Public Knowledge Proposes New Copyright Reform Act
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| The general topics for copyright change are
| to:
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| 1) strengthen fair use, including reforming
| outrageously high statutory damages, which
| deter innovation and creativity; 2) reform
| the DMCA to permit circumvention of digital
| locks for lawful purposes; 3) update the
| limitations and exceptions to copyright
| protection to better conform with how
| digital technologies work; 4) provide
| recourse for people and companies who are
| recklessly accused of copyright
| infringement and who are recklessly sent
| improper DMCA take-down notices; and 5)
| streamline arcane music licensing laws to
| encourage new and better business models
| for selling music.
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http://www.publicknowledge.org/node/2906
New Anti-Piracy Task Force Set To Pressure File-Sharers
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| In order to step up the pressure on illicit
| file-sharers and others that violate
| intellectual property laws, Swedish police
| and prosecutors are heading up a new
| specialist team of investigators to deal
| with infringements. Team members will be
| designated their own areas but will also be
| able to operate nationally.
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http://torrentfreak.com/new-anti-piracy-task-force-set-to-pressure-file-sharers-100213/
Project Postcard: design chosen!
http://www.pirateparty.org.uk/blog/2010/feb/14/project-postcard-design-chosen/
US citizens: Let the USTR know today that you oppose draconian copyright
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| There's only a few hours left to submit
| your comments to the US Trade
| Representative opposing export of draconian
| copyright restrictions to other countries.
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http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/ustr-301-comments
My Comments To The USTR On Special 301 Report On Foreign Copyright Issues
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| A lot of people have been incorrectly
| claiming that these comments are about
| ACTA, but they're not. The Special 301
| report basically just tries to determine
| which countries the US should put more
| pressure on to "get with the program,"
| diplomatically speaking, when it comes to
| copyright issues. In the past, it's been
| used to bully countries like Canada and
| Israel -- both of which have strong
| copyright that is very much in compliance
| with international obligations.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20100216/0234308176.shtml
Recent:
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
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