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JASRAC wants to charge YOU for tweeting song lyrics!
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| In a completely boneheaded move, the
| Japanese Society for Rights of Authors,
| Composers and Publishers (JASRAC)
| announced that they want to set up a
| system to charge people who tweet any part
| of song lyric.
|
| As reported (in the Japanese language) on
| J-cast news, they haven't decided on the
| details yet, but JASRAC insists it's the
| law and everyone has to obey with their
| decree.
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http://www.webinknow.com/2010/03/jasrac-wants-to-charge-you-for-tweeting-song-lyrics-.html
Movie rental kiosks hit with legal threats
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| A Southern Indiana prosecutor has
| threatened criminal charges unless stores
| with DVD rental kiosks remove R-rated
| movies and other material considered
| harmful to children.
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http://www.indystar.com/article/20100303/ENTERTAINMENT/3030336/Movie-rental-kiosk-firms-could-face-criminal-charges
Dear Macmillan, You Don't Embrace The New By Trying To Protect The Old
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| One of the reasons why economic forces
| work the way that they do, and the reason
| why infinite goods with zero marginal cost
| get pushed in price towards zero, is that
| buyers implicitly understand the
| difference between scarce goods and
| abundant goods. They implicitly recognize
| the marginal cost of making another good,
| and they mentally price products
| accordingly. Pretending that consumers
| don't do that is assuming that consumers
| are stupid. And that's an even bigger
| mistake than looking backwards instead of
| forward.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20100303/0146178383.shtml
RealNetworks Agrees To Pay $4.5 Million In Legal Fees To Hollywood Over RealDVD; Gives Up
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| So what did Hollywood accomplish here? It
| shut down a software product that allows
| people to backup the DVDs they legally own
| -- not to distribute them. In the
| meantime, of course, there are a bunch of
| DVD ripping programs out there that have
| no such restrictions. In other words,
| Hollywood's brilliant legal strategists
| just pushed anyone who wants to back up
| their movies to use solutions that make it
| easier for them to share those movies with
| others.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20100303/1638438400.shtml
Recent:
Not wrong, just illegal
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| From a practical point of view, trying to
| regulate the distribution of these materials
| over the Internet is an unachievable goal. No
| matter what laws are put in place,
| technological advances by ingenious young
| computer geeks mean that youth will always be
| one step ahead of the authorities. The
| industry may successfully prosecute and punish
| a few people but their success will be short
| lived. Almost no one will be deterred by legal
| prosecutions because the chances of being
| caught are minimal.
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http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/westview/not-wrong-just-illegal-84292007.html
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