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• Man Reports Self to Police for Ripping DVDs

  
  ModCool — Authority: 160
  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, ...
  10 hours ago

• 3 Count: Googled News

  
  PlagiarismToday — Authority: 423
  Have a suggestion for the 3 Count? Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday . 1: Judge Rejects Amazon Bid to Scrap Google Pact First off today, the revised Google Book Search settlement has survived yet another, albeit small, hurdle. The judge in the case has rejected a bid by Amazon to throwout his preliminary ...
  17 hours ago

• Backtracking Forward: A Sampling Of History

  
  OurStage Blog — Authority: 436
  An expansive vinyl collection can serve many purposes for its owner. As an appreciator of a diverse playlist, thousands of records represent a myriad of tracks spanning multiple decades. Jumping from swing to blues to death metal to classical is done with the greatest of ease, and no shuffle button. From a ...
  18 hours ago

• Holiday gifts for the IP geek

  
  IPKat - news and fun for everyone! — Authority: 504
  What to give an IP geek for Christmas or Hanukkah? A book, yes, always a good idea. But maybe something a bit lighter than Trademark License Agreements Line by Line: A Detailed Look at Trademark License Agreements and How to Change Them to Meet Your Needs by Erik W. Kahn. For the copyright lawyer, this Kat ...
  2 days ago

• Dear Peter Mandelson... Dan Bull Sings His Opposition To Kicking...

  
  Computer & Internet - computer-internet.marc8.com — Authority: 169
  Musician Dan Bull seems to be carving out a nice space for himself responding to UK efforts to make copyright law more ridiculous that it already is, by voicing his opposition in song. read more
  3 days ago

• DP Does a Double-Take

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 639
  M.E. Hart doesn’t mind if he’s become something of a joke on the Internet. It just means that his message is getting out.
  3 days ago

• No “30% solution”

  
  LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION — Authority: 138
  Here I am, sitting 44 stories above the Garment District itself (when I’m not standing under its immortal needle, shown at left), and I needed Staci Riordan’s new fashion IP blog all the way out on the Left Coast to tell me about the “30% rule” which she, wisely, advises designer clients doesn’t exist:There ...
  3 days ago

• Kaizen: Stepping Stones for Change

  
  Your Life Creation — Authority: 134
  Video - Kaizen is about embracing change willingly and with zest; recognizing its goal of harmony. Kaizen integrates a non-judgmental approach through small, regular steps made to improve ones overall life [...]
  6 days ago

• IsoHunt Asks Court to Legalize Its Operations

  
  Computer & Internet - computer-internet.marc8.com — Authority: 169
  During September 2008, isoHunt founder Gary Fung grew tired of the threats from the Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA). Instead of waiting for the CRIA to take action against him, Fung took the unusual step of suing the music industry outfit, seeking confirmation that the site’s operations are legal. ...
  6 days ago

• They always get their man

  
  LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION — Authority: 138
  Yes, people do have some funny ideas of what kinds of things to protect with copyright, don’t they?   A few years ago, criminal enterprise Milberg Weiss (in its pre-conviction days) tried to assert copyright in its own specie — the legal papers it filed to generate kazillions in crooked class-action fees — and ...
  1 week ago

• The Creative Commons Toque

  
  Slaw — Authority: 594
  Last week Leslie Ellen Harris correctly pointed out in her Slaw post Using Flickr Photos that we should not assume content available on the web is freely available without copyright. She gave photos on Flickr as the example. One thing I love about Flickr, however, is that it allows us uploading photos to designate ...
  1 week ago

• More on the “secret copyright treaty”

  
  LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION — Authority: 138
  Is it really that bad?  Last March I took a quick look at what some of the anti’s were saying, and focused mainly on the question of whether the treaty was properly classified.  I didn’t line up, exactly, behind Cory Doctorow, the EFF and friends (I usually don’t, at least not on copyright), but I [...]
  1 week ago

• Was the Digital Economy Bill Consultation a Whitewash?

  
  Computer & Internet - computer-internet.marc8.com — Authority: 169
  Last week, details finally emerged concerning the Digital Economy Bill. In a nutshell, the bill aims to turn elements of Lord Carter’s Digital Britain report into law. Internet users will face being monitored by the music and movie industries, and their ISPs forced to pass on infringement notices based on rights ...
  1 week ago

• Benediction: The Salt of the Earth

  
  Your Life Creation — Authority: 134
  Video - "Bless this little heart, this white soul that has won the kiss of heaven for our earth."by Rabindranath Tagore (Benediction)
  1 week ago

• 16-yr old launches Vye music-sharing site. Another Napster?

  
  Family Learning Center — Authority: 164
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• 16-yr old launches Vye music-sharing site. Another Napster?

  
  Gadget Reviews — Authority: 157
  With the help of close friends and family, 16-year-old Charles Allatt, has launched Vye Music, an online meta search app for music files around the Net.The site pulls search results from other music sites — including Skreemr, MP3Codes, and 4Shared Music, sites which in turn index hundreds of thousands of sites, ...
  1 week ago

• Britain’s new Internet law — as bad as everyone’s been saying, and worse. Much, much worse.

  
  MATADOR NINETY-FOUR — Authority: 126
    Powered by Max Banner Ads   The British government has brought down its long-awaited Digital Economy Bill, and its perfectly useless and terrible. It consists almost entirely of penalties for people who do things that upset the entertainment industry (including the "three-strikes" rule that allows your entire ...
  1 week ago

• 5 Copyright Verification Services Compared

  
  PlagiarismToday — Authority: 423
  Last week I covered a new startup in the copyright verification field , Myows, which stands for “My Own Works” and even produced a short video about how to use the service . However, Myows is far from the only service that that is providing instant, unofficial verification of ownership of created works. The ...
  1 week ago

• Musicians Margot MacDonald and Jonathan Ifergan Jam at EXPO, Support Artists’ Rights

  
  The Copyright Alliance Blog — Authority: 120
  An impromptu jam session ensued on Tuesday at the Copyright Alliance’s EXPOnential between two musicians: Margot MacDonald and Jonathan Ifergan . The two had met for the first time just the day before to deliver the artists’ letter to the White House . Upon meeting, they found they had some areas of common ...
  2 weeks ago

• Ozymandias Lessons for Copyright

  
  madisonian.net — Authority: 516
  Ann Bartow’s post about Paul Zukofsky, son of Louis and Celia Zukofsky, and his attempt to exert extreme control over his parents’ work reveals that heirs are problem for copyright. Mr. Zukofsky asserts some untenable points about his power over the material and the need for academics to seek his approval. The ...
  2 weeks ago

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