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Bogus Copyright Claim Silences Yet Another Larry Lessig YouTube Presentation
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| Nearly a year ago, we wrote about how a
| YouTube presentation done by well known law
| professor (and strong believer in fair use
| and fixing copyright law), Larry Lessig, had
| been taken down, because his video, in
| explaining copyright and fair use and other
| such things, used a snippet of a Warner
| Music song to demonstrate a point. There
| could be no clearer example of fair use --
| but the video was still taken down. There
| was some dispute at the time as to whether
| or not this was an actual DMCA takedown, or
| merely YouTube's audio/video fingerprinting
| technology (which the entertainment industry
| insists can understand fair use and not
| block it). But, in the end, does it really
| make a difference? A takedown over copyright
| is a takedown over copyright.
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http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100302/0354498358.shtml
Network Solutions Confused About The DMCA
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| Last week we wrote about how Microsoft
| abused the DMCA to force Cryptome offline
| via Network Solutions. Since then, there's
| been some interesting scrambling by all
| parties involved. Mircorosft claimed that it
| never meant to take Cryptome down entirely,
| just the one document (though, it no longer
| is asking for it to be taken down). But that
| doesn't make much sense, because Network
| Solutions only had the ability to take down
| the whole site, not pieces of content.
| Either way, what really confused us was
| Network Solutions response to the DMCA
| takedown, which was that it waited until
| Cryptome filed a counternotice to take down
| the site. That's not how the DMCA works.
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http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100226/1804368326.shtml
Private copying levies take their toll on Italian families denounces Altroconsumo (15 January 2010)
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| In the course of a year, an average family
| will spend up to â100 more thanks to a new
| government Decree fixing copyrighti levies.
| Unbeknown to them, consumers buying
| electronic goods such as blank CDs, USB
| keys, memory sticks or multimedia mobile
| phones will be forced to pay a levy for the
| right to make private copies.
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http://a2knetwork.org/private-copying-levies-take-their-toll-italian-families-denounces-altroconsumo-15-january-2010
Filesharing becomes the latest French hobby
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| Cerise Club, a French Internet company, said
| that illegal file sharing is a "national
| sport" and this is despite the fact that
| French copyright legislation is among the
| most repressive in the world.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1594045/filesharing-french-hobby
Anti-Piracy Lawyers âAn Embarrassment To Creative Rights Industryâ
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| After mountains of controversy built up in
| the wake of the âpay up or elseâ letters
| sent to thousands of alleged file-sharers,
| one would think other lawyers might be put
| off following the same track, but not so.
| Tilly Bailey & Irvine are the new kids on
| the block and have just been labeled by a
| Lord as an âembarrassment to the rest of the
| creative rights industry.â
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http://torrentfreak.com/anti-piracy-lawyers-embarrassment-to-creative-rights-industry-100302/
Filtering, Piracy Surveillance, and Disobedience
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| Abstract:
| There has always been a cyclical
| relationship between the prevention of
| piracy and the protection of civil
| liberties. While civil liberties advocates
| previously warned about the aggressive
| nature of copyright protection initiatives,
| more recently, a number of major players in
| the music industry have eventually ceded to
| less direct forms of control over consumer
| behavior. As more aggressive forms of
| consumer control, like litigation, have
| receded, we have also seen a rise in more
| passive forms of consumer surveillance.
| Moreover, even as technology has developed
| more perfect means for filtering and
| surveillance over online piracy, a number of
| major players have opted in favor of
| âtolerated use,â a term coined by Professor
| Tim Wu to denote the allowance of uses that
| may be otherwise infringing, but that are
| allowed to exist for public use and
| enjoyment. Thus, while the eventual specter
| of copyright enforcement and monitoring
| remains a pervasive digital reality, the
| market may fuel a broad degree of consumer
| freedom through the toleration or taxation
| of certain kinds of activities.
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http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1547813
Special interests have captured the copyright debate
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| Progressive politics stands for justice and
| understanding, and facing up to corporate
| special interests to defend the public good.
| Yet somehow those corporate special
| interests have captured the debate on
| copyright enforcement and the future of the
| internet.
|
| A huge lobby â Labourâs Tom Watson MP
| reports at least 100 full time employees â
| is being employed to campaign for
| disconnection of internet accounts when
| copyright infringement may have taken place.
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http://www.leftfootforward.org/2010/02/special-interests-have-captured-the-copyright-debate/
New music acts to labels: 'We won't tweet'
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| The music industry is in a major state of
| crisis and some up and coming acts are
| reluctant to dirty their hands with social
| networking.
|
| Some new artists signing at both major and
| indie labels are telling execs there that
| they'll make music, but don't expect them to
| do Facebook or Twitter. The labels are
| saying back that the days when performers--
| even mega-superstar performers--can keep
| fans at arms length are over.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-31001_3-10460660-261.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Church sues Hollywood for using Rio's Christ statue in movie
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| Brazil's Catholic Church is suing Hollywood
| for using unauthorized images of Rio's
| famous giant Christ statue in its disaster
| movie blockbuster "2012," a lawyer involved
| in the case told AFP Wednesday.
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| Rio de Janeiro's archdiocese is demanding
| unspecified damages and interest from
| Columbia Pictures for showing the iconic
| landmark being destroyed in a worldwide
| apocalypse in a film that came out last
| year, the archdiocese's attorney, Claudine
| Dutra, said.
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http://malaysia.news.yahoo.com/afp/20100225/ten-entertainment-brazil-us-film-1dc2b55.html
Recent:
Tough To Punish Those Who File Bogus DMCA Takedowns
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| Eric Goldman highlights a case where an ISP
| tried to use section (f) to go after a
| bunch of folks who issued questionable DMCA
| takedowns that were clearly designed to
| harass a couple of websites (and, at one
| point, were used to try to take down the
| entire ISP). The details are a bit
| convoluted, but basically, a group of
| people critical of what was being said on a
| website issued a series of DMCA takedowns
| to keep the site down every time it came
| back up following a counternotice. This
| seems like a perfect case where the
| takedown issuers should be hit with
| sanctions of some sort, but the case was
| dismissed on procedural grounds instead,
| which seem to be based on a
| misunderstanding of the DMCA itself.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20091231/1224117567.shtml
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