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• Public Knowledge Announces First Annual Worlds Fair Use Day (WFUD)

  
  Public Knowledge - Blogging, Events, and Action Alerts — Authority: 131
  We at Public Knowledge are thrilled to announce the first annual Worlds Fair Use Day (WFUD) , a day-long celebration of creativity, innovation and remix culture to be held at the Newseum in Washington, D.C. on January 12th, 2010. Fair use is the legal right that allows creators to make limited uses of copyrighted ...
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• Public Knowledge Sponsors First Worlds Fair Use Day

  
  Public Knowledge - Blogging, Events, and Action Alerts — Authority: 131
  For Immediate Release:  December 9, 2009 Public Knowledge President and Co-Founder Gigi B. Sohn announced that the organization will sponsor the first World’s Fair Use Day on Jan. 12, 2010 in Washington, D.C. The event will be an all-day celebration of the doctrine ...
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• File-Swapper to Pay Labels $675K; Will Seek New Trial

  
  Digital Media Wire - connecting people & knowledge — Authority: 584
  Boston - A federal judge has ordered grad student Joel Tenenbaum,found guilty of copyright infringement for file-sharing, to pay a total of$675,000 in compensation to the major record labels, and destroy the 30 songshe downloaded illegally, but stopped short of the labels demands that he cease"promoting" ...
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• Murdochs War with the Aggregators

  
  WebProNews Feed — Authority: 703
  Rupert Murdoch spoke last week at the FTCs journalism and the Internet workshop and again slammed news aggregators and search engines: "And yet there are those who think they have a right to take our news content and use it for their own purposes without contributing a penny to its production. Some rewrite, at ...
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• Some additional thoughts on the Tenenbaum fair use opinion: mainly right on fair use, but why all the dicta?

  
  Copyrights & Campaigns — Authority: 458
  Todays Memorandum and Order explaining the courts July 27 grant of summary judgment against Joel Tenenbaums fair use defense was, in one respect, unnecessary. Judge Nancy Gertner had already made her decision (and explained it, albeit briefly), and what she said in elaboration wont change the jurys $675,000 ...
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• Fair Use for Documentary Films

  
  Law Links | Health Links — Authority: 104
  NH Entertainment Lawyer Jon M. Garons latest Filmmaking 2.0 column is " Fair Use for Documentaries ." Writes Garon, "For documentary filmmakers to accurately depict their stories, they invariably need to rely on copyright’s fair use provisions significantly more than other filmmakers. This is particularly true if ...
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• Court enters judgment vs. Tenenbaum and enjoins him from further infringement; explains fair use decision while slamming defense as truly chaotic

  
  Copyrights & Campaigns — Authority: 458
  Over four months after a jury ordered Joel Tenenbaum to pay $675,000 for using peer-to-peer networks to illegally download and "share" 30 of the major record labels songs, Judge Nancy Gertner today issued a judgment against him for that amount. The court also enjoined the Boston University physics grad student from ...
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• If Cows Could Read

  
  Concurring Opinions — Authority: 609
  In my forthcoming article, Copyright and Copy-Reliant Technology , I investigate the significance of transaction costs in the context of technologies that copy expressive works for nonexpressive ends. These “copy-reliant technologies”, such as Internet search engines and plagiarism detection software do not read, ...
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• Loose Lips Syncing Shifts

  
  DealFatigue — Authority: 107
  Back in the 80’s, MTV was cutting edge. To many of us growing up back then, music videos were as much a part of the soundtrack to our lives as the music itself. Inspired, my high school class produced its own music video; a lip syncing production of Devo’s We’re Through Being Cool which was seen by less ...
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• Nesson continues to blame others for his lousy job of lawyering.

  
  Ruling Imagination: Law and Creativity — Authority: 418
  The  Harvard Law Record reported yesterday on Charlie Nesson’s address to : a room full of HLS students to explain his motivations and methods as the lawyer representing Joel Tenenbaum in Sony BMG Music v. Tenenbaum , the case that resulted in a $675,000 judgment against his client . I have on more than ...
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• Latest Infringement Charge over Incidental Copying

  
  The Command Line — Authority: 434
  I have to chalk this story (found via Dan at Geekadelphia ) from the Chicago Sun-Times up to the ignorance of the movie staff who initiated the complaint and the owners who pressed it forward. A young woman, Samantha Tumpach, is being charged with a felony over mere minutes of video that happens to contain a few ...
  6 days ago

• Perfect 10 Comes Out Swinging at Google Again

  
  WebProNews Feed — Authority: 703
  Those who have been following the search industry for some time, may recall that Google had some legal issues with the (former) magazine Perfect 10 (nsfw). The company, which ceased publication of its magazine, but still operates on the web, has issued a press release saying that its five year battle with the search ...
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• He’s got the key

  
  LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION — Authority: 137
  Eric Goldman, author of one of the bona-fide-deserving, regularly updated, ABA-Blawg-100-listed and actually fairly indispensable Technology & Marketing Law Blog updates us on a beat I’ve written on a whole bunch but given up hope on following comprehensively.  It is, however, a topic that anyone involved in ...
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• Murdoch to Washington: Stay out of the way, but please help

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 787
  Filed under: People , Media , News Corp. Rupert Murdoch is sending mixed signals. Under no circumstances does he think the federal government ought to step in and help float newspaper publishers through their current difficulties. But the key to the future solvency of news organizations lies, he suggests, in ...
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• Breathlessly waiting for Murdoch to be sued . . . or wither on the web?

  
  Ruling Imagination: Law and Creativity — Authority: 418
  The Kwika Entertainment Blog (reprinting a piece from the Huffington Post ) breathlessly announces that “if Microsoft and [Rupert Murdochs] News Corp. go forward with a deal whereby News Corp. demands that Google stop indexing its websites, don’t be surprised if it leads to one of the most important copyright ...
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• Why the GPL/Derivative Work debate doesn’t matter for WordPress themes

  
  perpetual beta | release — Authority: 113
  Note: this is not legal advice. This is my opinion, nothing more. If you want legal advice, hire a lawyer. How to piss people off with a legal argument There are no atheists in a foxhole, it’s been said, and there are apparently no agnostics when it comes to the potential application of the GNU General Public ...
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• What Do Artists Want?

  
  GYST-ink Blog — Authority: 118
  We love Clannco , a site with lots of legal information for artists and our friend Sergio at Clannco has generously allowed us to re-post this article from his blog. It’s a wonderful piece of information on copyright for artists. What Do Artists Want? By Sergio Muñoz Sarmiento November 19th, ...
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• Fair Use: Thoughts on the hacked climate change e-mail

  
  Against Monopoly — Authority: 132
  One of the problems is that science has become politicized. Industries hire hacks (including scientists) to attack any science that does not meet their needs. Think of the Chamber of Commerces recent call for economists to write a paper that will attack health care. Under constant attack, scientists may feel the ...
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• Wendy Seltzer on the other problem with DRM

  
  Joho the Blog — Authority: 608
  Wendy Seltzer has posted an article that will run in Berkeley technology Law Journal (Jan. 25 2010) . In it she argues that the problems with DRM go beyond its failure to accommodate Fair Use: The fair use debate is important, but it is not the only problem with DRM. Equally important, but thus far largely ...
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• Google AdWords litigation

  
  LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION — Authority: 137
  Originally posted 2007-04-06 11:09:57. Republished by Blog Post PromoterEric Goldman reports on Feldman v. Google — more Google AdWords litigation. As Eric explains, more is less. This is especially true here:Snarky aside: There’s one more fact in common between Person and Feldman–both of them were lawyers ...
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