Copyright

A copyright gives the creator of an original work exclusive rights to that work for a certain period of time. This is intended to protect and promote inventors and artists so that they may receive direct and indirect benefits from their creative or intellectual work. For example, the copyright on Mickey Mouse restricts others from creating derivative works based on his distinctive form and manner for their own profit; anyone not licensed by Disney to sell products or designs featuring Mickey can not make money using that copyrighted mouse.

With the advent of the Internet, the issue of copyright came to the fore as permissions were no longer as easily protected. With file and music sharing, digital media, self-publishing, and a massive increase in publicly-accessible information, tracking down and prosecuting the violators of a specific copyright became infinitely more difficult; legal policies to counteract piracy and unfair use on the Internet began to be enacted.

In response to this, a debate over the redefinition of copyright, and of its necessity, spread throughout the online community. The advent of the Creative Commons, the creation of wikis, and the public, license-free release of creative works indicates a shift in consciousness toward a greater freedom of information; yet, the debate over how creators should be reimbursed, and how they can protect their works from unauthorized modification, will continue for some time to come.

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• Radio broadcasters expressed concerns over the proposed move to introduce Section 33A in the Copyright Act

  
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  RADIO broadcasters have expressed concerns over the proposed move to introduce Section 33A in the Copyright Act which would give unfair powers to the music societies to fix tariff and could potentially derail the radio industry already reeling under... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website ...
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• Chicago Woman Could Get 3 Years for Taping 3 Minutes of ‘Twilight: New Moon’

  
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  DAN ROZEK reports in the Chicago Sun-Times : Taping three minutes of “Twilight: New Moon” during a visit to a Rosemont movie theater landed Samantha Tumpach in a jail cell for two nights. Now, the 22-year-old Chicago woman faces up to three years in prison after being charged with a rarely invoked felony ...
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• What Distinguishes Patents From Trademarks And Copyrights?

  
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  Patents, trademarks and copyrights are different aspects of a single idea. They are different types of intellectual property that secure the interests of the owner of an invention or creation. However, there are various points of differences among the three.
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• Google, eBay, Facebook, Yahoo Air Concerns on U.K. Legislation

  
  Digital Media Wire - connecting people & knowledge — Authority: 583
  London - Internet industrygiants Google (NASD: GOOG) , eBay (NASD: EBAY) , Facebook and Yahoo (NASD: YHOO) have written to the U.K. government, expressingconcerns over proposed new legislation that would impose"three-strikes" on file-swappers, and potentially empower theSecretary of State to amend the countrys ...
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• Man Reports Self to Police for Ripping DVDs

  
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  It’s not as daft as it sounds. Henrik Anderson, a Danish citizen, turned himself into police, confessing he had broken Danish anti-piracy laws by breaking the Digital Rights Management (DRM) on more than one hundred legally purchased DVDs. He did so because he wants some clarification. It seems, under Danish law, ...
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• Hacktivists Deface Spanish Anti-Piracy Group Website

  
  TorrentFreak — Authority: 730
  Spain has been considered to be a safe place for file-sharing enthusiasts. Downloading copyrighted music and movies for personal use is allowed, and operating a file-sharing oriented website also falls within the boundaries of the law if no profits are made directly from infringements. This lenient stance towards ...
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• Time Warner Hijacked My Browser To Politely Ask Me To Stop File Sharing [Piracy]

  
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      Time Warner , perhaps hip to the fact that I haven’t bothered to check my meat space snail mail mailbox in the last three weeks, took matters into their own hands and inserted this warning directly into my browser. At this point, file sharing warnings via snail mail and e-mail are pretty commonplace. Read ...
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• The Stonecutters Apprentice

  
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• Creme Brulee -- Necklace $44.00

  
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• Spanish Anti-Piracy Measure Under Fire

  
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  The proposal calls for the creation of a government-sponsored commission with the power to investigate and shut down Web sites accused of being a conduit for piracy.
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• Unconnected

  
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• eBay Donates to Creative Commons

  
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  Melissa Reeder is announcing that eBay is now a corporate sponsor of Creative Commons. The sum of the donation is unspecified, though their ongoing donation campaign widget is indicating a $30,000 increase from a few days ago.
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• Jerusalem Artist Awarded Statutory Copyright and Moral Damages for Pictures Displayed on Internet Site with Signature of Another Artist

  
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  Molly Cohen, an artist living in Jerusalem’s trendy Nachlaot area, discovered that a Solomon Suissa who she had contracted to sell her paintings, had deleted her name and inserted his own, before trying to sell prints thereof via Yair Medina’s website, Jerusalem Artistic Prints LTD. Cohen sued Suissa, Medina ...
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• Anti-Piracy Group To DRM Breaker: OK To Break The Law

  
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• Google Books Settlement 2.0: Evaluating Censorship

  
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• Comics A.M. | The comics Internet in two minute

  
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• They look alive. Oh!They are

  
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• 3 Count: Googled News

  
  PlagiarismToday — Authority: 423
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• Australia to keep parallel import restrictions

  
  IP Osgoode — Authority: 470
  Billy Barnes is a JD Candidate at the University of Toronto.The Australian government recently rejected a recommendation by the Productivity Commission to repeal the Copyright Act’s parallel import restrictions. Parallel import restrictions, which exist in most English-speaking countries including Canada, prevent ...
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