copyfight

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• Grateful Dead Archivist wanted at UC Santa Cruz

  
  Boing Boing — Authority: 884
  If youve got a Masters in Library Science and a love of the Grateful Dead, the University of California at Santa Cruz is looking for you -- a rare job opening in the UC system, and what a plum gig it is: official Greatful Dead Archivist. The University Library of the University of California, Santa Cruz, seeks an ...
  14 hours ago

• Larry Lessig talks about the values of education and science and the need to bring copyright into harmony with them

  
  Boing Boing — Authority: 884
  TonyBot sez, "This video is from a talk I saw Professor Lessig give on Wednesday the title is It is About Time: Getting Our Values Around Copyright. The talk was given at EDUCUASE a major technology in higher education conference. As an IT support guy for professors at a New England state school I run up against ...
  14 hours ago

• BBCs outrageous plan to put DRM on TV broadcasts shot down in flames -- thanks to you!

  
  Boing Boing — Authority: 884
  Remember the BBCs daft plan to put DRM on high-definition broadcasts even though its illegal for the BBC to put DRM on its broadcasts? Remember when people rose up and sent angry letters to Ofcom, the UK regulator that oversees the BBCs broadcasting activity? It worked. Ofcom told the BBC to forget about it. Score ...
  1 day ago

• Rupert Murdoch vows to take all of Newscorps websites out of Google, abolish fair use, tear heads off of adorable baby animals

  
  Journerdism | Will Sullivan's Stompin' ground for journalists and nerds. — Authority: 131
  "For months (years?) Rupert Murdoch has been waving his jowls around and shouting that Google is stealing from him by not paying to index his material. And all along, weve been saying, "Pffft, right. If you dont like it, just add a robots.txt file that tells Google not to index you. Until you do, stop whining and put ...
  1 day ago

• Ebook license "agreements" are a ripoff

  
  Boing Boing — Authority: 884
  In todays Observer Business column, John Naughton discusses what a ripoff it is for ebook vendors to "sell" you books with abusive, multi-thousand word "license agreements," pretending that because you bought your book over the network, it wasnt a sale, and so you dont get to own it. These "licenses" arent about ...
  2 days ago

• A Call for Copyright Rebellion

  
  NEWSgrist - where spin is art — Authority: 129
    Image Via via Inside HigherEd : A Call for Copyright Rebellion November 6, 2009 — Steve Kolowich DENVER-- The manner in which copyright law is being applied to academe in thedigital age is destructive to the advancement of human knowledge andculture, and higher ...
  2 days ago

• Danish anti-piracy group gives up

  
  Boing Boing — Authority: 884
  Christian sez, "Just now it has been announced in the press by the official Danish Anti-Piracy agency, Antipiratgruppen, that they are throwing in the towel and will seize their operations completely; to find and prosecute music copyright offenders. Here is a translation of the first published article in todays ...
  3 days ago

• Corporate law firm targets whistle-blowers and anonymous commenters

  
  Boing Boing — Authority: 884
  A British corporate law firm has created a new unit that will help easily offended corporate giants track down and sue anonymous Internet forum posters. They will also target whistle-blowers. They specialize in figuring out how to get ISPs to turn over their subscribers personal information. A spokeswoman for ...
  3 days ago

• DMCA takedown shirt

  
  Boing Boing — Authority: 884
  Well never know what was originally intended for this Techdirt tee, but we can see the aftermath of the takedown notice it attracted! DMCA Takedown T-shirt (Thanks, Dennis!)
  3 days ago

• Leaked text of secret copyright treaty vs. bland bureaucratic press-release describing same

  
  Boing Boing — Authority: 884
  Michael Geist sez, "The latest round of Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (the secret copyright treaty) talks have now wrapped up with the usual bland press release confirming that the talks focused on Internet and criminal enforcement, indicating that the next meeting will be in Mexico in January 2010, and ...
  4 days ago

• Prelingers Lost Landscapes of San Francisco archival film night, Dec 4

  
  Boing Boing — Authority: 884
  Jeff sez, "Guerrilla archivist Rick Prelinger is once again joining forces with the Long Now Foundation for the 4th in his series of screenings titled, Lost Landscapes of San Francisco. In the first talk of this series, Rick unveiled a jaw-dropping, now-famous restoration of a first-person perspective streetcar ride ...
  4 days ago

• EU kills 3-strikes proposal (yay!) but all is not well (eek!)

  
  Boing Boing — Authority: 884
  You might have seen that the EUs "Telecoms Package" squeaked through with some protection for users rights intact -- specifically, the proposal to allow "3-strikes" rules (whereby everyone in your house would lose internet access if any member was accused, without trial, of copyright infringement) was killed. But its ...
  5 days ago

• Folk covers of punk classics

  
  Boing Boing — Authority: 884
  Boyhowdy sez, "The folk covers of Straight to Hell I compiled last year were so well-received by your readers, I thought you might also be interested in this weeks entry, which compiles folk and acoustic covers of more songs from Punks first and second waves. From banjo-tinged Stooges covers to countrified Blondie, ...
  5 days ago

• Tell the FCC to say no to Hollywoods insane "Selectable Output Control" kill-switch

  
  Boing Boing — Authority: 884
  Alex sez, The battle over your home entertainment equipment is heating up again and the time to make your voice heard is now. Hollywood wants the FCC to grant the studios permission to engage in so-called ""Selectable Output Control." SOC is a tech mandate that would allow movie studios to shut off video outputs ...
  5 days ago

• More on secret copyright treaty: your kids could go to jail for noncommercial music sharing

  
  Boing Boing — Authority: 884
  Michael Geist sez, "According to the official agenda, in a few hours the Anti Counterfeiting Trade Agreement talks will continue on the Internet provisions and then move into the criminal provisions chapter. It is worth highlighting the ongoing criminal provisions as well. As previously leaked, the U.S. and Japan ...
  6 days ago

• VendorBar @ Editions | Artists’ Books Fair, X-Initiative, Nov. 5th - 8th, 2009

  
  NEWSgrist - where spin is art — Authority: 129
  Kirby Gookin and Robin Kahn announce VendorBar , our newest curatorial endeavor hosted by the Editions | Artists’ Books Fair 2009 Nov. 5th - 8th, 2009.     VendorBar presents artists who will directly engage the public by presenting actions, exchanges and services that result in the production and ...
  6 days ago

• They are coming to cut you off, oo argh

  
  goNZo Freakpower Brains Trust — Authority: 476
  The Fantastic Judith Collins will be thrilled with provisions of the Top Secret Copyright Treaty that have leaked out from under the cone of silence . As Cory Doctorow from Boing Boing sez, its bad. Very bad : That ISPs have to proactively police copyright on user-contributed material. This means that it will be ...
  6 days ago

• Secret copyright treaty leaks. Its bad. Very bad.

  
  Boing Boing — Authority: 884
  The internet chapter of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, a secret copyright treaty whose text Obamas administration refused to disclose due to "national security" concerns, has leaked. Its bad. It says: * That ISPs have to proactively police copyright on user-contributed material. This means that it will be ...
  6 days ago

• Video from CC footage of Brisbane Zombie Walk

  
  Boing Boing — Authority: 884
  Pool, the Australian public broadcasters Creative Commons repository, has spawned a video cut together from Aussies shots of the epic Brisbane Zombie Walk. Video: Outbreak: Brisbane Zombie Walk 2009 (Thanks, Gary!) Previously:Australian Broadcasting Corporation launches Creative Commons ...
  1 week ago

• Copyright documentary from Australian radio

  
  Boing Boing — Authority: 884
  Oscar sez, "I just finished a 48-minute radio documentary for the Australian public broadcaster, the ABC, about remix culture, piracy and copyright. Its got brain-melting copyright education programs aimed at kids, commentary from Lessig, and tomfoolery from the Australian film industry about losses from internet ...
  1 week ago

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