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• in Videos
  Challenging a YouTube Take Down with Fair Use
  "Know Your Meme" explains fair use and copyright claims.
  by bryanmckay / on Apr 29, 2010
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  Hitler Reacts to Downfall Parody Removals
  Brad Templeton creates a Downfall parody video satirizing the issues behind the removal of Downfall parody videos.
  by bryanmckay / on Apr 21, 2010

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “copyright law”

 

• Hackers attack Irish govt over new web law

  
  TelcoNews.com - Telecom and VoIP Industry News — Authority: 123
  Hackers attacked the websites of Ireland’s departments of finance and justice on Wednesday in a protest against government plans to block websites that violate copyright laws. Officials said both websites were taken offline for a short time in the early hours of Wednesday in a denial of service attack, in which ...
  5 days ago

• Europe To Sign ACTA Thursday, Poland Protests

  
  The Moderate Voice — Authority: 652
  On Thursday, 26 European Union member states plus the EU will sign the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA). Although the treaty ostensibly deals with counterfeit physical goods, it includes provisions related to digital goods. The Treaty was negotiated in secret; it began during the Bush Administration and ...
  5 days ago

• Megaupload Shut Down, Provides Basic Lessons on Bad Business

  
  Law of the Game — Authority: 89
  It’s been a crazy week with many crazy stories. Fears about the Stop Online Privacy Act created a massive online response, thrusting copyright reform into the national conversation. But while people were speculating on the future of intellectual property, the Department of Justice shut down Megaupload . Over ...
  1 week ago

• Supreme Court rules public domain isnt permanent, says Congress can re-copyright works

  
  Engadget — Authority: 850
  If youve been enjoying the fireworks over PIPA and SOPA these past weeks, get ready for more intellectual property ugliness. The US Supreme Court handed down a decision Wednesday granting Congress the power to restore copyright claims on works that have entered the public domain. The six to two decision (with ...
  1 week ago

• SOPA and PIPA Explained

  
  Akron Law Caf — Authority: 101
  Although I have not been keeping up with the SOPA/PIPA debate, I found this video useful, although clearly from the perspective of critics of the proposed legislation: The speaker is the founder of Khan Academy, whose free, clear, web-based video lessons inspired Bill Gates to fund as part of the future of education ...
  1 week ago

• Soprah is Feeling Generous

  
  Hex19 — Authority: 413
   After a long day of learning about copyright law and protesting SOPA, I figured youre probably in need of some relaxation in the form of laughter. I present the most benevolent and generous distributor of unfair copyright law, Soprah!
  1 week ago

• What does a kid’s birthday cake have to do with SOPA?

  
  GigaOM — Authority: 820
  While everyone from Wikipedia to Reddit was busy turning their sites black to protest the twin anti-piracy bills SOPA and PIPA, or organizing marches in the streets of New York , media theorist and author Clay Shirky was at the offices of TED — the non-profit behind the TED conferences — giving a talk on why ...
  1 week ago

• The Real Reason We Don’t Need SOPA or PIPA: We Already Have Broken Copyright Law, DMCA

  
  Geekosystem — Authority: 716
  Now don’t get me wrong, there are awful, awful aspects to both SOPA and PIPA . The prospect of DNS blocking is egregious censorship. The prospect of cutting off funds and ad revenue to “infringers” without due process is egregious. Even without those provisions, though, we still don’t need or want ...
  1 week ago

• SOPA and PIPA Are Bad

  
  BlawgIT — Authority: 79
  There seems to be some confusion on this issue, so let me make it clear. The Stop Online Piracy Act ( SOPA ) and the Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA) are bad. They are bad for you, bad for me, bad for anyone with a blog, a Facebook profile, or any other type of website. SOPA and PIPA are bad for anyone ...
  1 week ago

• Supreme Court Upholds Right To Reinstate Copyrights For Works In The Public Domain

  
  Deadline.com — Authority: 134
  The 6-2 U.S. Supreme Court decision favors content owners including Hollywood studios over an unusual coalition of public interest and Internet activists including Google. At issue was whether the federal government had the right in 1994 to pass a law that extended copyright protection to works that were already in ...
  1 week ago

• Changing the Conversation on SOPA/PIPA

  
  PlagiarismToday — Authority: 460
  Today, as everyone should know, is the day of the major protests (online and off) against the Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect IP Act. Thousands of sites, including most prominently Wikipedia and Reddit, have blackened out their frontpage and, effectively, shut down for all or part of the day. The protests seem ...
  1 week ago

• Why Canadians Should Worry About SOPA (and What They Can Do About It)

  
  Hex19 — Authority: 413
  If you spend any time on the internet at all, youve probably heard of the "Stop Online Piracy Act" (or SOPA ) and its deplorable piece of partner legislation in the US Senate, the "Protect Intellectual Property Act" (or PIPA ). If you attempted to access many large sites around the internet today, you would have ...
  1 week ago

• Authorship and the Muse

  
  madisonian.net — Authority: 480
  I have been thinking a lot about authorship lately.  Perhaps this is because I am learning my first instrument and trying to write my first song.  Or because I failed miserably at a write-a-novel-in-a-month exercise last November.  Or because I am in the middle of a wrestling match with an article. An  ...
  1 week ago

• 3 Count: Blackout Day

  
  PlagiarismToday — Authority: 460
  Have any suggestions for the 3 Count? Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday . 1: Web Protests Piracy Bills, and 2 Senators Change Course First off, today marks the day of the scheduled protests against the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA) as several major websites, including Reddit ...
  1 week ago

• Supreme Court Upholds Recopyright Law; Breyer and Alito Note ‘Speech Implications’ in Dissent

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 667
  The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld a 1994 recopyright law that removed thousands of foreign artistic works from the public domain and gave them copyright protection. The law, passed to help the United States comply with international treaties, does not violate the First Amendment rights of musicians, publishers, ...
  1 week ago

• Google Logo Blacked Out to Protest SOPA & PIPA Legislation

  
  GottaBeMobile.com — Authority: 438
  Visitors to Google.com are being greeted with an unusual site today. Instead of the standard Google logo or one of its creative Doodles that pay homage to current events or historical figures, the company is blacking out its logo today to protest SOPA and PIPA, two pieces of legislation that many see as a threat to ...
  1 week ago

• Understanding the SOPA Blackout

  
  Akron Law Caf — Authority: 101
  Online piracy and counterfeiting is epidemic.  The owners of copyrighted material — movies, music, etc., as well as of trademarked products, lose millions of dollars each year to piracy and counterfeting and thousands of jobs are lost as a result.  In the past, Congress has responded to this problem by passing ...
  1 week ago

• Missing Wikipedia? Here’s How You Can Access It

  
  Disinformation — Authority: 124
  As most Internet users already know, leading Internet companies like Google, Wikipedia, and Craigslist are protesting the SOPA legislation very publicly today, with Wikipedia totally blacked out. But, if you really, really need to access Wikipedia today, they have kindly explained how to come in through the back ...
  1 week ago

• The Internet As We Know It Is Threatened

  
  Pittsburgh Arts - Digging Pitt — Authority: 109
  PROTECT IP / SOPA Breaks The Internet from Fight for the Future on Vimeo . The following post is the opinion of John Morris and may not be shared by other contributors to this blog. As with any other piece of pending legislation, its hard to get a grasp of specifics. Lets just say, this doesnt look good. The ...
  1 week ago

• Post-Sentencing Facebook Comments Put NinjaVideo ‘Phara’ On Fast Track to Prison Cell

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 667
  The woman known as the "Phara" of a now-defunct movie downloading site apparently made two crucial miscalculations when she was sentenced earlier this month in a criminal copyright-infringement case. First, Hana Beshara posted about her 22-month prison term on a Facebook account for NinjaVideo and elsewhere, in a ...
  2 weeks ago

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