RIAA CEO Tries To Connect China Google Hack With Google's Attitude Towards Copyright
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| The RIAA has made some bizarre and totally
| nonsensical arguments in its time, but it
| may have just set a new low. castilho
| points us to an opinion piece written by
| RIAA boss Mitch Bainwol that tries to pin
| the blame for the Chinese hack of Google
| on Google's opinion towards copyright.
| Seriously. Of course, the logical leaps
| and bounds you have to go through to make
| this sort of statement is a bit crazier
| than your average roller coaster, and in
| the process Bainwol seems to be implying
| both that those who give away anything for
| free are against content creation and that
| getting hacked actually has something to
| do with copyright law.
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http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100225/0425588308.shtml
Home Cooking Is Killing The Restaurant Industry!
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| For many years, whenever people insisted
| that the ability to download movies would
| kill the movie business -- including the
| box office revenues -- we've made the
| analogy that just because people can
| prepare food at home (for much lower
| cost!) it hasn't changed the fact that
| sometimes people still go out to dinner.
| It's an apt analogy.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20100223/0032548261.shtml
YouTube gives up on original 'Rickroll'
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| In what's either the saddest or most
| fantastic news of the week, the YouTube
| video for Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give
| You Up" has been deemed a copyright
| violation.
|
| Yes, that means the cheesy '80s pop video
| with tens of millions of views--the center
| of the "Rickrolling" Internet phenomenon--
| is no more.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10458847-36.html
The Korean War Memorial Postage Stamp Photo Case: I was way wrong! But I still think I was right, and I think the case is bad for art.
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| Consider me dumbfounded, or just plain
| dumb. I thought the copyright infringement
| case brought by the sculptor of the Korean
| War War Veterans Memorial (above, left)
| against the U.S. Postal Service for the
| use of the memorialâs image in a postage
| stamp (above, right) was an âeasy caseâ â
| that the stamp constituted fair use of the
| image of the memorial because, among other
| things, I thought the image was
| sufficiently âtransformativeâ of the
| memorial itself to constitute a creative
| work in its own right.
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http://blogs.geniocity.com/friedman/2010/02/the-korean-war-memorial-postage-stamp-photo-case-i-was-way-wrong/
Stretching The FCC's Mandate: FCC Should Not Be Involved In Copyright Enforcement
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| We were a bit concerned last year when the
| FCC held hearings which were technically
| about the national broadband policy, but
| instead focused on copyright, something
| that is clearly well outside the FCC's
| mandate -- something the FCC already got
| in trouble for a few years back with its
| attempt to mandate a "broadcast flag."
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20100225/0258078301.shtml
Former Teen Cheerleader Dinged $27,750 for File Sharing 37 Songs
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| A federal appeals court is ordering a
| university student to pay the Recording
| Industry Association of America $27,750 â
| $750 a track â for file sharing 37 songs
| when she was a high school cheerleader.
|
| The decision Thursday by the 5th U.S.
| Circuit Court of Appeals reverses a Texas
| federal judge who had ordered defendant
| Whitney Harper to pay $7,400, or $200 per
| song. The lower court had granted her an
| âinnocent infringerâsâ exemption to the
| Copyright Actâs minimum of $750 per track
| because she said she didnât know she was
| violating copyrights and thought file
| sharing was akin to internet radio
| streaming.
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http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/02/former-teen-cheerleader-dinged-27750-for-infringing-37-songs/
$15,000 penalty for web downloads
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| Anyone caught breaching copyright by
| downloading films and music from the
| internet will face large penalties and
| could even be disconnected by their
| internet service under new legislation.
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http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10628593
Universal May Have to Pay the Piper Over Takedown of Dancing Baby
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| U.S. District Judge Jeremy Fogel ruled
| late Thursday that Stephanie Lenz can get
| some limited recompense from the music
| label for ordering YouTube to drop a 29-
| second video of her son dancing to the
| music of Universal artist Prince.
|
| Lenz still must prove her case before
| collecting anything. But it appears to be
| the first answer to the question of how an
| apparently ill-brought takedown notice
| should be punished under the Digital
| Millennium Copyright Act.
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http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202444734702&Universal_May_Have_to_Pay_the_Piper_Over_Takedown_of_Dancing_Baby
isoHunt to Appeal in MPAA Lawsuit, Sees The Lite
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| Last year the BitTorrent search engine
| isoHunt lost in court against the MPAA. A
| Californian court ruled that isoHunt was
| guilty of inducing copyright infringement
| and granted summary judgment. IsoHunt,
| however, does not intend to crack so
| easily as it sets course towards an appeal
| and launches a âLiteâ version of the site.
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http://torrentfreak.com/isohunt-to-appeal-in-mpaa-lawsuit-sees-the-lite-100223/
RapidShare Ordered To Proactively Filter Book Titles
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| Six book publishers have gained an
| injunction against file-hosting company,
| RapidShare. The Swiss-based âcyberlockerâ
| service must monitor user uploads to
| ensure that around 148 titles, many of
| them textbooks, are never made available
| to its users. Failure to do so could
| result in $339,000 fines, or even jail
| time for company bosses.
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http://torrentfreak.com/rapidshare-ordered-to-proactively-filter-book-titles-100224/
âBribedâ Pirate Bay Cop Now Heads Anti-Piracy Unit
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| Jim Keyzer, a police IT forensics
| specialist who was leading the Pirate Bay
| investigation while he was also working
| for Warner Bros. is back in action.
| Despite all the controversy he is now
| leading the IT Crime Unit which is tasked
| with various anti-piracy efforts.
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http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-cop-now-heads-anti-piracy-unit-100226/
The Hunt For The Big Dope
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| Ah, but are they making it, do you ask?
| Wellâ given the fact that the costs of
| creation cannot be denied and that they
| believe that the audience and the users
| shouldnât be paying for content, I do not
| see any other possibility. Someone has to
| pay, if I choose not to. A personal
| example, for perspective: I am a fan of a
| number of musical artists and as such I
| would like them to make more recordings.
| Simple enough? Most music fans could say
| the same, I should think. I know (all too
| well) that recordings cost the artists
| time, effort and money to produce.
| However, let us say â for the sake of
| argument â that I do not wish to pay for
| the recordings. I want them and I want
| them free. The artistsâ costs wonât
| diminish by virtue of my unwillingness to
| pay, so someone else has to come up with
| the money.
|
| Letâs look at some of the potential Dopes
| that have been âvolunteeredâ to take the
| burden of supporting the creative sector
| from our shoulders:
|
| 1. Advertisers
| 2. Other users of the net â through
| collective licensing schemes rolled
| into ISP subscription plans
| 3. Tax payers â through
| ânationalizationâ of the creative
| sector
| 4. Charitable organizations
| 5. Other fans of the artist â the ones
| whoâll spend the hundreds or thousands
| of dollars on premium items,
| merchandise, concerts, physical sales,
| theatre screenings etc.
| 6. The creators themselves â when we
| convince them that they should view
| their creativity as a gift that they
| should indiscriminately share with the
| world, without a thought to being
| compensated for the enrichement of the
| audienceâs lives
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http://thecynicalmusician.com/2010/02/the-hunt-for-the-big-dope/
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