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Disney's Takedown Of Roger Ebert's Tribute To Gene Siskel
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| Notice that they think it's Disney again.
| How nice of them to repeatedly take down the
| videos of Ebert's tribute to his close
| friend. Just like copyright law intended.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20100217/0310368194.shtml
Copyright Kremlinology: understanding the secret copyright treaty
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| My latest Internet Evolution column,
| "Copyright Undercover: ACTA & the Web,"
| talks about the absurd tea-leaf-reading
| exercise that we have to engage in to figure
| out what's actually happening with
| negotiations for a far-reaching, secret
| copyright treaty that could change the face
| of the web, privacy, creativity,
| competition, and commerce.
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http://www.boingboing.net/2010/02/18/copyright-kremlinolo.html
ACTA Needs to Be Public, Even if It's Just About "Enforcement"
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| Supporters of the Anti Counterfeiting Trade
| Agreement (ACTA) are careful to say itâs all
| about âenforcement.â
|
| Ambassador Ron Kirk, the United States Trade
| Representative, describes ACTA as aimed at
| âstrengthening the framework of practices
| that contribute to effective enforcement,
| and strengthening relevant [intellectual
| propety] enforcement measures themselves.â
| The MPAA supports âa sound and comprehensive
| ACTA that codifies best practices for
| copyright enforcement.â
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http://www.publicknowledge.org/node/2898
Debunking Reasons For ACTA Secrecy: Just Enforcement Doesn't Tell The Whole Story
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| The fear here is that while ACTA might not
| technically change US law, it could easily
| change US procedures and policies on
| "enforcement" allowing the effective change
| in the law, without people even realizing
| it. He quotes Professor Thomas Main, saying:
|
| "procedural reforms can have the effect
| of denying substantive rights without
| the transparency, safeguards and
| accountability that attend public and
| legislative decision-making."
|
| And, indeed, this is what we've see in the
| leaked drafts of ACTA. While most (though,
| certainly not all) of the proposals that
| have been leaked don't necessarily include a
| direct change to US law, they often do
| subtly word things so that existing rights,
| safeguards and accountability are left out,
| just as Prof. Main warns. To make sure those
| subtle changes do not have serious impacts
| that let certain special interests (in the
| words of Rep. Dingell) "screw" the public,
| doesn't it make sense to reveal the contents
| of what's being negotiated?
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20100216/0426128181.shtml
Copyright staff get more than they give to authors and artists
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| THE body established to pay authors for the
| use of their copyright last year spent more
| on its own staff -- including more than
| $350,000 for a chief executive -- than it
| paid authors and artists directly.
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http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/arts/copyright-staff-get-more-than-they-give-to-authors-and-artists/story-e6frg8n6-1225831556653
Australian copyright society blows more than it gives to artists: lavish salaries and junkets to Barbados
http://www.boingboing.net/2010/02/18/australian-copyright.html
Camper Van Beethoven Funds Their SXSW Trip By Letting Fans Sponsor Songs At Their Performance
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| Sounds like an excellent leveraging of a few
| of the scarcities that we've mentioned here
| before, in this case, attention, exclusivity
| and patronage. With the "Santa Cruz Roller
| Derby Girl," CVB's personality definitely
| shines through in this unique offer that
| should resonate nicely with their fans (in
| fact, I learned of this promotion via a
| friend sharing it through Google Buzz).
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20100217/1707328207.shtml
Interview with David Byrne
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| I enjoyed David Byrne's presentation at
| TED2010. He spoke about the way artists
| create their music and other works to look
| and sound their best in the venue they
| appear in.
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http://www.boingboing.net/2010/02/18/interview-with-david-1.html
YouTube Joins Hulu In Letting Content Holders Block Access For TV-Connected Devices
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| After all, if it's just a browser, why
| should the content creators care -- and why
| is Google helping them out in this regard?
| The line is blurring between various devices
| anyway and setting a special toggle that
| lets users block access to videos seen in a
| perfectly legal fashion on different types
| of devices seems pretty backwards. It's too
| bad Google even makes this an option -- and
| that anyone actually pays attention to it.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20100215/0234358166.shtml
NBC's Delayed Telecasts Show A Company Living In The Last Century
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| This is just bizarre. As NBC continues its
| screwed up process of broadcasting the
| Olympics by delaying the actual telecast of
| important events until prime time,
| apparently a bunch of folks are pissed off
| that real news sources are reporting on
| what's actually happened. They're targeting
| the wrong thing, of course. If they're upset
| that the news is being reported before it's
| being shown on TV, the real problem is NBC's
| decision not to show stuff live on TV or to
| webcast it for those who would prefer to see
| it live.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20100217/1511548205.shtml
Music Journalism is the New Piracy
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| Imagine you're a music journalist who
| maintains a blog. You've just found a great,
| new, virtually-unknown artist that you want
| to tell the world about. How can you do so,
| in a way that is simple and convenient for
| your readers, but does not place you or your
| blog's host at risk of being sued?
|
| Thanks to the increasingly aggressive
| copyright-enforcement tactics of the music
| industry, this has become a startlingly
| complicated question with no good answer.
|
| In the latest signal of this conundrum, at
| least six music blogs were deleted last week
| by Blogger due to copyright complaints. It's
| uncertain who made the accusations that lead
| to the deletions, but the most likely
| culprit is the International Federation of
| the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), a
| copyright-enforcement organization which had
| previously filed copright takedown notices
| against some of the targeted blogs.
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http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/02/musicblogocide
Blocked Pirate Bay Users Flock to Other Torrent Sites
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| Last week an Italian court ruled that ISPs
| should block access to The Pirate Bay. A few
| days later this block was enforced, but it
| is doubtful that the blockade will affect
| the piracy rate at all since other torrent
| sites are experiencing a massive increase in
| Italian visitors.
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http://torrentfreak.com/blocked-pirate-bay-users-flock-to-other-torrent-sites-100216/
Music industry to musicbloggers: there's no point in obeying the law
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| Last week, several high-profile, much-loved
| music blogs disappeared from Google's
| Blogspot service, after they were targetted
| by the International Federation of the
| Phonographic Industry (IFPI -- the
| international version of the RIAA). IFPI
| defended its action by saying "Our top
| priority is to prevent the continued
| availability of the IFPI Represented
| Companies' content on the internet."
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http://www.boingboing.net/2010/02/16/music-industry-to-mu.html
Dolly, Rejection and Radiohead Journalism
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| What does an award-winning journalist do
| when she has a great story, and no one will
| publish it? If sheâs Paige Williams, she
| sets her work free and crowdsources the fee
| in an experiment she calls âRadiohead
| journalism.â Did she succeed?
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http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/02/dolly-rejection-and-radiohead-journalism/all/1
Recent:
European ACTA Document Leaks With New Details on Mexico Talks and Future Meetings
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| A brief report from the European Commission
| authored by Pedro Velasco Martins (an EU
| negotiator) on the most recent round of
| ACTA negotiations in Guadalajara, Mexico
| has leaked, providing new information on
| the substance of the talks, how countries
| are addressing the transparency concerns,
| and plans for future negotiations. The
| document (cover page, document) notes that
| the Mexico talks were a "long meeting with
| detailed technical discussions, which
| allowed progress, but parties not yet ready
| for major concessions. Due to lack of time,
| internet discussions could not be
| concluded."
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http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/4795/125/
FSF submits comment in USTR Special 301 Review
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| The Special 301 Review is a process that
| the USTR undertakes every year to review
| the enactment and enforcement of copyright,
| patent, and trademark laws throughout the
| world. The office then produces a report
| placing countries on a Watch Listâor even a
| Priority Watch Listâif the USTR feels the
| laws and enforcement aren't forceful
| enough.
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http://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/2010-02-ustr-comment
PleaseRobMe website reveals dangers of social networks
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| The Dutch developers told BBC News the site was designed to prove a point about
| the dangers of sharing precise location information on the internet.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8521598.stm
ACTA: END THE SECRECY
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| Welcome to the ACTA: END THE SECRECY
| Facebook group. This group is about getting
| the word out, getting organized and putting
| the heat on parliamentarians to stand up
| for domestic sovereignty.
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http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=288885939910&v=info
Pressure mounts on EU to come clean on ACTA
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| Members of the European Parliament are
| calling on the European Commission to stop
| keeping it in the dark, and tell citizens
| what being negotiated in the ACTA (Anti-
| counterfeiting Trade Agreement). In
| particular, they want to know about the
| measures in ACTA which threaten the
| Internet.
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http://www.iptegrity.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=464&Itemid=9
EU's Unconvincing ACTA Act
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| The EU has made an official statement
| [.pdf] on ACTA. As you might expect, it is
| as wriggly a wriggly thing as a wriggly
| thing can. Here it is, with a few
| annotations:
|
| The Commission can inform the
| Honourable Member that the Anti-
| Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA)
| will be in line with the body of EU
| legislation, which fully respects
| fundamental rights and freedoms and
| civil liberties, such as the protection
| of personal data. This includes the
| Intellectual Property Rights' relevant
| aspects of the Telecoms package.
|
| As for being in line with "EU legislation",
| this already allows ACTA-like provisions,
| so that's cold comfort.
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2010/02/eus-unconvincing-acta-act.html
Let's Face Facts: ACTA Is Called An 'Executive Agreement' To Change The Law With Less Hassle Than A Treaty
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| When concern over ACTA secrecy started
| picking up a few months ago, one of the
| industry lobbyist talking points that
| floated out was "don't worry about ACTA,
| because it's not a 'treaty' but an
| 'executive agreement' and thus, it can't
| impact US law." An IP lawyer in our
| comments keeps making this point over and
| over again, and arguing that anyone who
| argues otherwise doesn't understand the
| Constitution. Of course, that's silly.
|
| [...]
|
| And... the next time your friendly industry
| lobbyist insists that ACTA is "not a
| treaty" so you have nothing to worry about,
| go ahead and explain why that's incorrect.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20100209/1505538101.shtml
Quick: Time to Stop the SWIFT Agreement
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| The so-called SWIFT Agreement, where SWIFT
| refers to the âSociety for Worldwide
| Interbank Financial Telecommunicationâ, has
| close parallels with ACTA, about which I
| have written several times - not least the
| way it has gradually emerged from the
| shadows to be met by growing outrage from
| people who were kept in the dark about it.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?blogid=14&entryid=2783
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