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Do as we say, not as we do
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| If you haven't been following the story,
| the Labour party took a photo of actor
| Philip Glenister as Gene Hunt from Ashes to
| Ashes, photoshopped in David Cameron's face
| and put it on a poster with a tagline about
| going back to the 80s. The Conservatives
| took Labour's image, and changed the words
| to something more positive, and put it on
| their own posters. The problem is that it
| appears neither of them bothered with the
| trivial matter of getting approval from the
| copyright holders.
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http://www.pirateparty.org.uk/blog/2010/apr/4/do-we-say-not-we-do/
â Copying Is Not Theft; Saying It Is IS Spin
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| Just in case you were in any way confused
| (which it seems a whole lot of people are),
| copying is not stealing, as this charming
| little jingle illustrates.
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http://webmink.com/2010/04/05/copying/
Aspiro taking WiMP to Denmark
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| WiMP, which is already available to Telenor
| customers in Norway, allows subscribers to
| stream unlimited music to PCs, Macs, Linux
| and mobile handsets powered by the Android
| OS for 99 kroner a month.
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http://www.mobile-ent.biz/news/36664/Aspiro-taking-WiMP-to-Denmark
The Story Behind Facebook Threatening To Sue Developer Into Oblivion For Highlighting Useful Facebook Data
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| Facebook's lawyers have been getting pretty
| nasty lately. We recently covered the
| company's threats against the creator of a
| useful Greasemonkey script, and now a
| developer named Pete Warden has shared the
| sordid details of his legal run-in with
| Facebook -- where they threatened to sue
| him for his activity aggregating publicly
| available data found on Facebook.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20100407/0338488909.shtml
Rupert Murdoch Doesn't Recognize That There's Competition Online
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| Recent profiles of Murdoch have suggested
| he doesn't use the web, so perhaps he
| doesn't realize it, but there's always
| somewhere else to go, and if News Corp. is
| so short-sighted to lock itself away from
| the open web, well that just opens up a
| much greater opportunity for his
| competitors to make sure they're the place
| to go.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20100407/0245048908.shtml
How âDirtyâ MP3 Files Are A Back Door Into Cloud DRM
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| All the big music sellers may have moved to
| non-DRM MP3 files long ago, but the
| watermarking of files with your personal
| information continues. Most users who buy
| music donât know about the marking of
| files, or donât care. Unless those files
| are uploaded to BitTorrent or other P2P
| networks, there isnât much to worry about.
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http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/06/how-dirty-mp3-files-are-a-back-door-into-cloud-drm/
Copyright industry: Copyrights trump human rights?
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| The International Intellectual Property
| Alliance (IIPA) is heavily involved in the
| Special 301 process, filing submissions
| every year on behalf of its member
| organizations, the Association of American
| Publishers (AAP), the Business Software
| Alliance (BSA), the Entertainment Software
| Association (ESA), the Independent Film &
| Television Alliance (IFTA), the Motion
| Picture Association of America (MPAA), the
| National Music Publishersâ Association
| (NMPA) and the Recording Industry
| Association of America (RIAA). Itâs only
| natural that these trade associations would
| be concerned with intellectual property
| laws and their enforcement around the
| globe, since copyright is where their
| members make their livings. Itâs less
| understandable, though, when they seem to
| argue that their exclusive economic rights
| should have priority over othersâ basic
| human rights.
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http://www.publicknowledge.org/node/2985
Newspapers Pushing For Hot News Doctrine May Find It Comes Back To Bite Them
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| [A] really troubling aspect of all of this
| is that some newspaper industry lawyers
| have been pushing for massive changes to
| copyright law on the false belief that
| stricter copyright law for newspapers will
| somehow magically save them. One (but
| certainly not the only) aspect of this is
| an attempt to bring back the "hot news"
| doctrine, a concept that had been mostly
| considered dead. However, with some recent
| lawsuits, "hot news" is suddenly making a
| troubling comeback, much to the delight of
| some very short-sighted newspaper industry
| lawyers.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20100404/1649588866.shtml
Hot news: The next bad thing
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| Sadly, the âhot newsâ right is not as racy
| as it sounds. It does not offer legal
| protection for scantily clad celebrities.
| This is a legal right that extends far
| beyond copyright law to cover the facts of
| the news themselves; if I break the story,
| the hot news right allows me to stop
| competitors from repeating the facts â at
| least for as long as the story has
| immediate currency.
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http://www.thepublicdomain.org/2010/04/02/the-next-bad-thing/
James Gannon Presentation â Copyright Viewed By A Lawyer â Correct Legally But Wrong â Part 1
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| James Gannon is a lawyer who works with
| Barry Sookman at McCarthy TÃtrault LLP. He
| also has a blog called âIP, Innovation and
| Cultureâ which is hosted at WordPress.com,
| where he expounds on âIntellectual
| Propertyâ issues.
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http://madhatter.ca/2010/04/06/james-gannon-presentation-copyright-viewed-by-a-lawyer-correct-legally-but-wrong-part-1/
James Gannon Presentation â Copyright Viewed By A Lawyer â Correct Legally But Wrong â Part 2
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| Let me see â Wal-Mart shut down their DRM
| servers in 2009, and his presentation was
| in 2010. Does anyone see the disconnect
| here? RealNetworks is has been struggling,
| Sonyâs music sales arenât work breaking out
| in their year end reports (at least I
| couldnât find them), and Microsoft doesnât
| break out music sales on their year end
| reports (probably too embarrassed to do
| so). As I stated above, the two giants of
| digital music sales donât use TPM/DRM on
| their music. From that you can guess how
| essential it is to running a successful
| Digital Music Store.
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http://madhatter.ca/2010/04/07/james-gannon-presentation-copyright-viewed-by-a-lawyer-correct-legally-but-wrong-part-2/
James Gannon Presentation â Copyright Viewed By A Lawyer â Correct Legally But Wrong â Part 3
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| So which is it? Do you want Canada to adopt
| the WIPO Copyright Treaties? If so, why are
| you not criticizing those who are not in
| compliance, like the United States (with
| the DMCA) and the United Kingdom (with the
| Digital Economy Bill). For that matter,
| where is Doctor Mihaly Ficsor, the supposed
| copyright expert? Why isnât he criticizing
| the United States and the United Kingdom
| for passing legislation which is not
| compliant with the WIPO Copyright Treaties?
|
| Logic people. Use some logic.
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http://madhatter.ca/2010/04/08/james-gannon-presentation-%e2%80%93-copyright-viewed-by-a-lawyer-%e2%80%93-correct-legally-but-wrong-%e2%80%93-part-3/
Why Copyright Criminals Filmmakers Won't Get Sued? Because They'd Win
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| Last year we had a post, based on a post by
| Peter Friedman, suggesting a big reason why
| Girl Talk hadn't been sued for creating
| entirely sample-based music was because
| there was a good chance that Girl
| Talk/Gregg Gillis would win that lawsuit,
| and establish a clear fair use right in
| sampling. Now, with the more recent
| discussion about the legality of the
| documentary Copyright Criminals, Friedman
| is making the same point again: suggesting
| that the filmmakers won't get sued, because
| they would likely win, and redraw the
| boundaries of the law on music sampling and
| fair use:
|
| But if McLeod is willing to fight a
| lawsuit -- and I think he is -- the
| recording industry won't sue him. The
| existing precedents requiring licensing
| of every single recorded sample would
| be overturned, and the record industry
| would [have] lost the appearance
| created by these precedents, an
| appearance that makes the vast, vast
| majority of samplers pay license fees
| for their samples. It's better business
| for the industry to let the occasional
| brave and creative soul feel as if he's
| getting away with something than to
| have the industry's precious -- and
| ill-founded -- legal precedents put at
| genuine risk.
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http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100405/1420038886.shtml
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