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The 21st-Century Orchestra: Now Hear It This Way
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| Orchestras are moving into these areas
| largely out of necessity. The commercial
| classical recording industry, as it was
| configured in its late-20th-century
| heyday, is vastly diminished, and there is
| little money to be made in the business.
| The New York Philharmonic, for instance, a
| giant of the recording industry in the
| Leonard Bernstein years, has not had a
| long-term contract with a commercial label
| for a decade.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/04/arts/music/04download.html?ref=technology
China's National People's Congress Amends the Copyright Law
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| On February 26, 2010, the National
| People's Congress passed the second
| amendment to the Copyright Law. Only two
| articles of the Copyright Law have been
| amended, and the changes will take effect
| on April 1, 2010.
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http://www.martindale.com/international-law/article_Sheppard-Mullin-Richter-Hampton-LLP_964964.htm
Hot news: The next bad thing
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| Yes, there are legal aggregation sites â
| such as Google news â which contain short
| snippets of news stories. If newspapers
| want their content removed from these
| sites they can do so easily by simply
| changing the data contained in something
| called the robots.txt file. Google or
| Yahoo will no longer index their pages.
|
| But the newspapers do not want to do this,
| because legal aggregators drive a great
| deal of traffic to them. And in any event,
| they do not need a new right to stop the
| practice. There are also sites that do
| illegally copy the entire contents, or the
| entire article. Their behaviour is already
| illegal under copyright law. (And in any
| event has a small effect on revenues. Do
| you read the FT stories at some shady site
| or at the FT?)
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http://www.thepublicdomain.org/2010/04/02/the-next-bad-thing/
The Flower of Free Culture
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| There cannot be a free culture license
| because a license is an intrinsic
| impediment to cultural freedom (being a
| submission to copyright, let alone fraught
| with incompatibility and re-licensing
| issues), so it would be counter-productive
| and, despite the best of intentions,
| hypocritical to promote licenses as a
| means of achieving cultural emancipation.
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http://www.digitalproductions.co.uk/index.php?id=240
Launching Public Discussion of CC Patent Tools
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| Weâre happy to announce that weâre
| launching the public comment and
| discussion period for our new patent
| tools: the Research Non-Assertion Pledge
| and the Public Patent License. We invite
| you to join the discussion at our public
| wiki. There you can read about these
| tools, catch up on hot topics of interest
| to the community, or join our public
| discussion list to contribute your
| thoughts and suggestions.
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http://sciencecommons.org/weblog/archives/2010/04/02/launching-public-discussion-of-cc-patent-tools/
Anti-Piracy Lawyers Vandalize Wikipedia Page
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| As mass file-sharing litigation lawsuits
| go inter-continental, not everyone is
| proud to be associated with this type of
| work. Lawyers Tilly Bailey & Irvine in the
| UK have been hard at work this month,
| editing large chunks of their own
| Wikipedia page in an attempt to hide their
| involvement and also earning themselves a
| copyright infringement warning.
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http://torrentfreak.com/anti-piracy-lawyers-vandalize-wikipedia-page-100402/
Is music the unacceptable face of capitalism?
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| Lord Mandelson today accused the bankers
| of being the "unacceptable face of
| capitalism". Isn't this somewhat
| hypocritical, given that he wants the
| Internet industry to spend Â500 million on
| an electronic fence to protect the rich in
| the music industry (ie, the Digital
| Economy Bill)? Is this acceptable when
| the country is virtually bankrupt?
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http://www.iptegrity.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=503&Itemid=9
Code To Track BitTorrent Users Bought For $750 (Max)
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| As the practice of hunting down alleged
| file-sharers and then issuing legal
| threats in order to force money out of
| them gathers pace, questions are
| continually raised over the quality of the
| technical systems used to gather the
| evidence. According to information on a
| rent-a-coder site, such a system was
| bought in 2008 for between $250 and $750.
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http://torrentfreak.com/code-to-track-bittorrent-users-bought-for-750-max-100404/
"Ashes to Ashes" election campaign posters probably breach copyright. The proof? A mouse mat
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| 1. Does the Labour Party have a Licence to
| Use this image for this purpose? This is a
| publicity (PR) picture - a PR Licence does
| not normally permit use for party
| political advertising. We won't know
| unless and until someone produces a
| Licence to Use, and whether that Licence
| includes advertising. If not, they are in
| breach of copyright.
|
| 2. If they do have such a Licence, from
| whom did they obtain it? Monastic
| Productions, Kudos Film & Television or
| BBC Worldwide?
|
| 3. Why was it granted? On the evidence of
| this picture, the BBC almost certainly
| holds rights in all publicity images from
| the series. The BBC is prohibited by its
| charter from engaging in partisan
| political activity.
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http://www.stop43.org.uk/pages/news_files/98aa59b8c75d6c08092552c235838afb-51.php
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