Copyrights

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• Dan Bull – Dear Mandy [an open letter to Lord Mandelson]

  
  Chocolate and Vodka — Authority: 409
  If, like me, you disapprove of Mandelson’s Digital Economy Bill you can: Sign the petition (currently at 25,970 signatories – let’s get it up over 50k!) Join the Open Rights Group who are fighting this bill Write a personal message to Lord Mandelson Write to your MP Or call your MP and tell them ...
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• Bon Jovi and Gwen Stefani Copy Taylor Swift

  
  Says Who Live — Authority: 133
  Jon Bon Jovi and Gwen Stefani are following in Taylor Swift’s sports bar crushing footsteps as the two singers are suing a hometown drinking establishment for allegedly jacking their music. According to a lawsuit filed in Minnesota, several of the pop stars’ compositions were publicly performed at Sally’s Saloon ...
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• Book Review Monday: Gray Markets: Prevention, Detection, and Litigation

  
  Patent Baristas — Authority: 488
  gray market n. a market employing irregular but not illegal methods; especially : a market that legally circumvents authorized channels of distribution to sell goods at prices lower than those intended by the manufacturer. ~Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary of Law A gray market (or grey market) is the trade of a ...
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• K12 Online Conference: Steal This Preso! Trailer

  
  Creating Lifelong Learners — Authority: 104
  If you’ve never heard of the K12 Online Conference , all you need to know is that it’s a free online conference with presentations from some of the greatest minds in educational technology (they’ve also asked me to present).  All presentations are accessible from the web site.  You can even see presentations ...
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• Record Companies Could Lose Music Copyrights in 2013

  
  Black Entertainment, Money, Style and Beauty Blogs - Black Voices — Authority: 156
  Filed under: News The movie "2012" pretty much illustrates the disaster that may be looming for major music labels in the year 2013. You see, Congress gave creators of copyrighted material the right to terminate any copyright grant after 35 years, when it amended the U.S. copyright law in 1976. The first year ...
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• MPAA: Copyright Treaty Critics Hate Hollywood

  
  Threat Level — Authority: 765
  If you don’t back a copyright treaty being negotiated in secret, you must want to destroy Hollywood, its blockbuster movies and all the jobs they create. At least that’s the message from the Motion Picture Association of America. It’s spelled out in a Thursday memo to the Senate Judiciary Committee, urging ...
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• Canadian Ebook Store Offers Free Public Domain Ebooks -- Claims Copyright Says You Can Only Make 1 Copy

  
  Stephen's Web ~ OLDaily — Authority: 559
  I have in the past argued about how commercial distributors take free and open content and enclose it in proprietary formats and closed markets. Here we have a case in point. The ebook store launched by Chapters-Indigo provides "free" ebooks - but all claimed to be copyright to the store, all displayed in closed Flash ...
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• Judge Calls Bull on ‘Psycho-Acoustic’ Beatles Covers

  
  Threat Level — Authority: 765
  A federal judge dealt what may be a death blow to a Santa Cruz, California, company marketing Beatles music and other tunes as 25-cent downloads, despite the company’s claim that the tracks were computer-generated cover versions produced by a process called “psycho-acoustic simulation.” EMI and other labels ...
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• BlueBeat Beatles tracks gone for good after judge’s beatdown

  
  ShareConnector — Authority: 161
  We now have the full legal theory behind BlueBeat.com’s attempt to sell remastered Beatles tracks online for a quarter each. It’s so odd that the federal judge overseeing a music industry lawsuit against the site decided he didn’t even need to hold the hearing scheduled for tomorrow. Instead, he blasted ...
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• Copyright Czar Vote Heads to Full Senate

  
  ShareConnector — Authority: 161
  The Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approved Victoria Espinel’s nomination Thursday, paving the way for a full Senate vote to confirm the nation’s first copyright czar. No Senate vote date was set immediately for a nominee who was applauded by both the “copyleft” and the “copyright.” Espinel is ...
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• Copyright Czar Vote Heads to Full Senate

  
  Threat Level — Authority: 765
  The Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approved Victoria Espinel’s nomination Thursday, paving the way for a full Senate vote to confirm the nation’s first copyright czar. No Senate vote date was set immediately for a nominee who was applauded by both the “copyleft” and the “copyright.” Espinel is ...
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• Introducing the Open Web Foundation Agreement

  
  Stephen's Web ~ OLDaily — Authority: 559
  The Open Web Foundation has announced the launch of an Open Web Foundation Agreement , which is a charter that can be signed by agencies contributing specifications to the open web. "Specifications made available under the Open Web Foundation Agreement may include everything from small ad-hoc formats sketched out ...
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• Simple Data Entry

  
  Pro Freelance Projects — Authority: 179
  Categories: Web,Flash,Page / Site Design,Writing,Web Services,Other (Web),Marketing,Search Engine Optimization,Other (Marketing),Content Writing,Cascading Style Sheets (CSS),XML / XHTML,Prototype / Model,Virtual Assistant,Other,Travel Plans,Bill Organization / Payment,Phone calls / messages,Writing thank you ...
  2 weeks ago

• Project Runway Copyright

  
  GYST-ink Blog — Authority: 116
  Did you see Project Runway last night? Aside from the drama about Carol Hannah getting real sick, there was a little tidbit that caught our attention, and maybe it caught yours. Irina, from NYC, was planning on showing a line of clothes incorporating old t-shirts from Coney Island. This link might die one day, but ...
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• Ed Hardy’s Tattoo Art Is Booty for Digital Pirates

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 906
  Don Ed Hardy, the famed tattoo artist, and his backers battle constantly with counterfeiters who create fake Web sites to peddle knock-offs of his gear.
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• Another argument defeated for state interference in the economy

  
  No Apologies — Authority: 149
  William Watson writes for the Fraser Institute’s Fraser Forum about what constitutes a “Public Good” vs. a Private Good. He draws on research which challenges the conventional notion that public goods should and must be funded by governments (with taxpayer dollars) because private entities don’t have any ...
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• Lawrence Lessigs EDUCAUSE Keynote

  
  Stephen's Web ~ OLDaily — Authority: 559
  Lawrence Lessig spoke at EDUCAUSE and impressed with his message on copyright. Here is the video. DArcy Norman, Weblog, November 12, 2009 [Tags: Video , Lawrence Lessig , Copyrights , EDUCAUSE , Patents ] [ Link ] [ Comment ]
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• Book Review Monday: Moral Panics and Copyright Wars

  
  Patent Baristas — Authority: 488
  It is good that authors should be remunerated; and the least exceptionable way of remunerating them is by a monopoly. Yet monopoly is an evil. For the sake of the good we must submit to the evil; but the evil ought not to last a day longer than is necessary for the purpose of securing the good. ~ Thomas Babington ...
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• Icons Needed

  
  Pro Freelance Projects — Authority: 179
  I need 2 different icon sets designed in 2 different styles as per examples attached.Each set will consist of 15 icons (30 icons total).You can either design in Photoshop or Illustrator (but I prefer Photoshop). Source files and transparent background png files to be delivered upon completion.Please note: I’m asking ...
  3 weeks ago

• Can Modern Dance Be Preserved?

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 906
  Cunningham working on the dance “Canfield,” summer 1970.
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