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Digital decay and the archival cloud
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| Up to now, there has been one
| characteristic of digital recordings that
| has provided an important counterweight to
| the fragility of digital media - it's what
| Bollacker refers to as "data promiscuity."
| Because it's easy to make copies of digital
| files, we've tended to make a lot of them.
| The proliferation of perfect digital copies
| has provided an important safeguard against
| the loss of data. An MP3 of even a
| moderately popular song will, for instance,
| exist on many thousands of computer hard
| drives as well as on many thousands of
| iPods, CDs, and other media. The more
| copies that are made of a recording, and
| the more widely the copies are dispersed,
| the more durable that recording becomes.
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http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2010/04/digital_decay_a.php
Copyright 1710-2010 âFor the encouragement of learningâ
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| The worldâs first copyright law was passed
| by the English Parliament on 10 April 1710
| as âAn Act for the Encouragement of
| Learningâ. Its 300th anniversary provides
| a unique opportunity to review copyrightâs
| purposes and principles. If today we were
| starting from scratch, but with the same
| aim of encouraging learningâ what kind of
| copyright would we want?
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http://www.counterpoint-online.org/copyright-1710-2010/
Misguided Outrage At NY Times' Ethicist Over Ethics Of Downloading A Book
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| First of all, the situation he was
| discussing was one where the ebooks were
| not even available -- so it wasn't even a
| question of the author losing any money.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20100406/1146048898.shtml
Juliet vs. Juliet: Did Someone Forget To Tell Hollywood You Can't Copyright An Idea?
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| That's the only explanation I can come up
| with for the ongoing lawsuit between two
| movie studios over who can make and/or
| release a movie about people seeking advice
| in love by leaving letters at the supposed
| gravestone of Juliet Capulet (of "Romeo &"
| fame). Apparently, two separate studios
| made movies on the topic, and one is suing
| to stop the other from releasing the movie.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20100408/0242248934.shtml
More about the Encouragement of Learning
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| And for each book printed, "nine copies
| upon the best paper," were to be reserved
| for "the Royal Library, the Libraries of
| the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge,
| the Libraries of the Four Universities in
| Scotland, the Library of Sion College in
| London, and the Library commonly called the
| Library belonging to the Faculty of
| Advocates at Edinburgh." If delivery of
| books did not take place within ten days
| after receiving a demand from a library,
| the offender was fined five pounds (per
| book).
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http://www.againstmonopoly.org/index.php?perm=593056000000002833
More Movies Trying Out Tiered CwF+RtB Support Models
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| The first, pointed out by rosspruden is
| about a Spanish film called The Cosmonaut
| which has a few unique features surrounding
| it. Ross listed them out:
|
| 1. the filmmakers are releasing their
| work under a CC license to let others
| mix and reuse their film.
| 2. the film is fully funded from fan
| donations (so the film never needs to
| turn a profit)
| 3. profits are generated from sales of
| scarce goods
| 4. fans are allowed to invest in the
| project for real financial profit (not
| virtual profit), which isn't allowed
| according to SEC regulations (yet)
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20100114/0518557751.shtml
First Amendment Based Copyright Misuse
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| We are at a crossroads with respect to the
| under-developed equitable defense of
| copyright misuse. The defense may go the
| way of its sibling, antitrust-based patent
| misuse, which seems to be in a state of
| inevitable decline. Or - if judges accept
| the proposal of this Article â courts could
| reinvigorate the copyright misuse defense
| to better protect First Amendment speech
| that is guaranteed by statute, but that is
| often chilled by copyright holders misusing
| their copyrights to control otherâs speech.
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http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1574385
Recent:
Copyright and wrong
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| The moral case, although easy to sympathise
| with, is a way of trying to have oneâs cake
| and eat it. Copyright was originally the
| grant of a temporary government-supported
| monopoly on copying a work, not a property
| right. From 1710 onwards, it has involved a
| deal in which the creator or publisher
| gives up any natural and perpetual claim in
| order to have the state protect an
| artificial and limited one. So it remains.
|
| The question is how such a deal can be made
| equitably. At the moment, the terms of
| trade favour publishers too much. A return
| to the 28-year copyrights of the Statute of
| Anne would be in many ways arbitrary, but
| not unreasonable. If there is a case for
| longer terms, they should be on a renewal
| basis, so that content is not locked up
| automatically. The value society places on
| creativity means that fair use needs to be
| expanded and inadvertent infringement
| should be minimally penalised. None of this
| should get in the way of the enforcement of
| copyright, which remains a vital tool in
| the encouragement of learning. But tools
| are not ends in themselves.
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http://www.economist.com/opinion/displaystory.cfm?story_id=15868004
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