Tag Archives: Copyright
On pirates and piracy
[O'Reilly Radar - Mike Loukides] [...] Even more fundamentally, there is no such thing as creativity that doesn’t rely on the past. Sometimes the links are very subtle and hidden; sometimes they’re out in the open, and we don’t notice them only because we’ve declared Bach and Beethoven “great composers” and forgotten the popular music of […]
Doctorow’s Omen Shows Why We Need To Ban DRM
[TorrentFreak - Rick Falkvinge] Doctorow’s presentation is here. It is time well spent — Cory Doctorow is also quite the entertainer, even with a very serious message. If you want to speedread a transcript instead, you can do so here. In short, Doctorow argues that the copyright industry’s fight isn’t against copying, but against general-purpose computers. As more […]
PROTECT IP Act Breaks The Internet
Tell Congress not to censor the internet NOW! - fightforthefuture.org/pipa. PROTECT-IP is a bill that has been introduced in the Senate and the House and is moving quickly through Congress. It gives the government and corporations the ability to censor the net, in the name of protecting “creativity”. The law would let the government or corporations […]
Italy’s insane Internet law prompts removal of Italian Wikipedia
[BB/Cory Doctorow] Prompted by Italy’s punitive (batshit) wiretapping law proposal, Wikipedia has removed its Italian version and now directs anyone trying to find Italian Wikipedia to a page explaining that Italy’s Internet law will make it impossible to have an Italian Wikipedia: This proposal, which the Italian Parliament is currently debating, provides, among other things, […]
Politician Violates His Own Two-Strikes Anti-Piracy Plan
[TorrentFreak] When the German politician Siegfried Kauder introduced a two-strikes model to beat online piracy a few days ago, his own actions with regard to copyright were weighed carefully. It didn’t take long before people spotted Kauder’s first infringement on his personal website, which was quickly followed by another one. In what has now been dubbed […]
ACTA
[MeFi/Jeffburdges] The once-secret Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) slouches toward signing on Saturday. ACTA is expected to raise constitutional issues in the U.S., raise soverenty issues in the E.U., give copyright holders extensive powers to impose DRM and identify alleged infringers, and increase health risks worldwide. In addition, the U.S. has launched the Trans Pacific Partnership agreement (TPP) to obtain what copyright provisions were stripped from ACTA. (see michaelgeist.ca, techdirt, or slashdot) There remain plausible options for limiting the damage done in Europe by the copyright clauses, […]
Copyright Monopoly
[falkvinge] Among the treasure troves of recently released WikiLeaks cables, we find one whose significance has bypassed Swedish media. In short: every law proposal, every ordinance, and every governmental report hostile to the net, youth, and civil liberties here in Sweden in recent years have been commissioned by the US government and industry interests. … […]
Is Copyright Only For the Big Guys?
[TorrentFreak/Ben Jones] Over the last two weeks, two interesting copyright-related stories have appeared in online news reports. Both involve big media companies and small users, but not in the way we usually expect. In both instances, the large media companies “pirated” content instead of the users, and they seem to get away with it. This […]
Copyright: Forever Less One Day
[via/C.G.P. Grey] http://blog.cgpgrey.com/ %5Bvideo link]
Creative License: The Law and Culture of Digital Sampling
Kembrew McLeod and Peter DiCola’s Creative License: The Law and Culture of Digital Sampling is a fantastic and deep look at the business, art, culture, ethics, history and future of musical sampling. The authors — respected academics/writers/filmmakers — undertook to interview a really amazingly wide spectrum of people involved in music production, and what emerges is […]
Kind of Bloop album postered on Jay Maisel’s building
[via/Jason] A pair of fair use crusaders hired some “street art underground” friends to place several posters of the Kind of Bloop album cover on the building that Jay Maisel owns in Manhattan as payback for Maisel suing Andy Baio over using a representation of Maisel’s photo of Miles Davis for Bloop’s cover. I hope that every time Jay […]
Credit Is Due (The Attribution Song)
[via/questioncopyright][YT video link] The fourth “Minute Meme” from QuestionCopyright.org – more at http://questioncopyright.org/minute-memes/credit-is-due | Movie and song by Nina Paley | Performed by Evanescent (Vocals & Ukele: Bliss Blood, Guitar: Al Street) | Sound effects design by Greg Sextro |
Jay Maisel sues Andy Baio for copyright infringement
Andy Baio: “Kind of screwed”. Baio produced a chiptune tribute to Miles Davis’ classic album Kind of Blue. He licensed all of the tracks and assigned all profits directly to the five musicians on the album. The one thing he didn’t do was check about the cover art, a pixelated rendering of the photo on the original album cover. Jay […]
Wikileaks on New Zealand Copyright: US Funds IP Enforcement, Offers to Draft Legislation
[Michael Geist] Wikileaks has also just posted hundreds of cables from U.S. personnel in New Zealand that reveal much the same story [as Canada] including regular government lobbying, offers to draft New Zealand three-strikes and you’re out legislation, and a recommendation to spend over NZ$500,000 to fund a recording industry-backed IP enforcement initiative. Interestingly, the […]
J’accuse … 3 strikes and you’re out – NZ’s Internet Copyright Bill
[NZPA] New Zealand Parliament has passed under urgency a controversial bill designed to prevent illegal file sharing by internet users. The Copyright (Infringing File Sharing) Amendment Bill allows copyright owners to send evidence of alleged infringements to internet service providers (ISPs), who will then send up to three infringement notices to the account holder. If the […]
