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Embedding videos can infringe copyright according to the MPAA. Are your embeds safe?
The ruling in the recent copyright infringement case Flava vs Gunter has far reaching ramifications for the future of sharing - especially if the MPAA stops the reversal of the court ruling...
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Dear Congress, guess what? We already have copyright laws.
What you need to do, my dear politician friends, is to stop listening to the lobbyists and start listening to the innovators.
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European Parliament 'opposes' SOPA copyright law in new resolution
The European Parliament has added its voice to the growing weight of opposition to the U.S. SOPA, which could infringe even the most basic of web freedoms.
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First-sale doctrine lost for goods purchased overseas
The Supreme Court's 4:4 decision to uphold a Ninth Circuit court decision limiting first-sale doctrine to U.S. produced goods has huge potential implications for the technology you buy.
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RIAA can't search for copyright violators; still wants Web sites to help
The Recording industry says the Digital Millennium Copyright Act isn't working anymore. And it still want web sites to help identify copyright violators.
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Google says it would make books available to Amazon, Copyright Office says deal 'usurps' Congressional role
Register of Copyrights Marybeth Peters says Google Books deal usurps Congress's constitutional duty to set copyright law.
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POTUS to SCOTUS: Leave Cablevision decision alone
Should the Supreme Court hear networks' and movie studios' plea to consider whether Cablevision's remote DVR technology violates copyright law? The Justice Department urged no, Dow Jones reports....
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Copyright battle over iPhone jailbreaks
Nice piece from Saul Hansell in the Times around Apple's copyright claims on iPhone jailbreaking. The Electronic Frontier Foundation, in a filing (PDF) with the Copyright Office, urged an...
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Mashups changing the face of copyright laws
User-generated mashups are changing the face of copyright laws, which have to evolve to catch up with the Internet generation.
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Lessig: Five proposals for ending copyright wars
The Wall Street Journal is running an excerpt from Larry Lessig's upcoming book, Remix (book party in SF, Oct. 29.) In this excerpt, Lessig tells the story of Stephanie Lenz, who taped her...
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Canadian Conservatives vow to implement new copyright law
Candians who vote to re-elect the Conservative government next week will also be voting for an archly pro-copyright agenda. According to the party's official platform released yesterday: A...
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Is Canada's new copyright law a northern DMCA?
Canada has a new copyright law that limits consumers' liability for copyright infringement but exposes them to thousands of dollars in penalties for circumventing anti-copying technology, the...
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Proposed NAFTA-like agreement would turn border guards into copyright cops
This is so unbelievable, so repugnant to basic principles of privacy and prohibitions against illegal search and seizure that I can only let the news speak for itself. But to put it in context,...
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Does open source mandate change in copyright law?
It's not money that's the problem, in other words, it's monopoly. Giving distributors a monopoly on ideas when distribution is free no longer makes sense.
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Expert praises, criticizes Atlantic v. Howell decision
It's becoming clear that the Atlantic v. Howell decision is a major big deal in the RIAA lawsuit landscape, as the heavy hitters are starting to comment. William Patry just published a...
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If Elvis were a digital entrepreneur today
Internet attorney Nancy Prager explains how an EU push to create a common digital copyright policy may serve as the de facto legal framework for the Internet.
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'Tis the season for common sense copyright
Maura Corbett says it's time for partisans in this long-running soap opera to reach a compromise agreement.
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What does fair-use really mean?
Since the passage of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), the confusion over "fair-use" of copyrighted materials in schools has hindered some educators, driven others underground in their...
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Verdict in filesharing suit: $220,000
Standing up to RIAA blackmail isn't looking like such a great idea for Jammie Thomas today. After refusing to settle and taking the matter to trial, Thomas was socked with a $220,000 judgment...
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Pirates and other nonsense
Digging through the "blog ideas" pile on my desktop, I found this article from earlier this week discussing Sweden's "Pirate Party." A US branch does exist, and so I decided to take at tour of its...
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