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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “techdirt”

 

• There Is No Ceiling In The Music Industry #momoney

  
  The New Rockstar Philosophy — Authority: 107
  Have you read TechDirt’s The Sky Is Rising report yet? It’s proves what we at The New Rockstar Philosophy have been saying for years; The music business is doing very well… it just takes some creativity and vision. For years now, the legacy entertainment industry has been predicting its own ...
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• Publishing 2.0: Content Is Marketing, Profits Come From The Packaging

  
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  Publishers find themselves confronted by a difficult dilemma at the moment. On the one hand, they might want e-books to succeed, because digital devices represent a huge new market to which they can sell their back catalogs. On the other, they might want them to fail, because e-books will cannibalize sales of ...
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• USPTO Says Copies Of Academic Articles Submitted As Prior Art Are Covered By Fair Use

  
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  With all the heat that publishers are starting to feel from the academic community, you might have thought that theyd avoid upsetting anyone else. But it seems that some publishers have decided to go after lawyers who make patent applications that include copies of academic articles as prior art. As the PatentlyO ...
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• We Dont Have A Wild West Internet Now, But We Will If SOPA Or Similar Is Passed

  
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  Nicolas Sarkozy, the President of France, has the sad distinction of being in the vanguard when it comes to really bad ideas concerning the Internet. On his initiative, France became the testing-ground for the three-strikes approach of throwing people off the Internet upon multiple accusations of copyright ...
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• Is The US Meddling In Polish ACTA Voting?

  
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  With the immediate threat from SOPA/PIPA on hold, people have started to turn their attention to the long-running saga of ACTA. While it was being negotiated behind closed doors, few people knew about it, and protests against it were muted. Now that it has finally emerged into the open and begins its last dash ...
  6 days ago

• If Politicians Pushing SOPA/PIPA Want To Create Jobs, They Should Support The Internet -- And Stop Treating Copyright Companies As Special

  
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  A key element of the political rhetoric around SOPA/PIPA was the idea that it was about jobs , and that jobs are so critical in the current economic climate that safeguarding them overrides any other concern the Net world might have about the means being proposed to do that. But then the key question becomes: who ...
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• Why Piracy Is Indispensable For The Survival Of Our Culture

  
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  Last Year Techdirt wrote about the case of the huge collection of historic jazz recordings that had been acquired by the US National Jazz Museum. The central problem is that even if the recordings can be digitized before they deteriorate, very few people will hear them because of their complicated copyright ...
  6 days ago

• Estonia Next In Line To Receive US Encouragement To Adopt Harsher Anti-Piracy Laws

  
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  Numerous Wikileaks cables have highlighted the pressure that the US has brought to bear on several foreign governments behind closed doors in an attempt to get the latter to pass maximalist copyright laws. But its worth noting that plenty of arm twisting takes place openly. Here, for example, is a letter (pdf) from ...
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• iPhone Data Debunks Recording Industrys Report On How French Three Strikes Law Increased Sales

  
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  The annual Digital Music Report ( pdf ) of the International Federation for the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) is a curiously conflicted production. On the one hand, it must celebrate "a healthy 8 per cent increase in our digital revenues in 2011 -- the first time the annual growth rate has risen since records began in ...
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• The End Of The Global Internet? Googles Blogger Starts Using Country-Specific Domains To Permit Local Censorship

  
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  Twitter has taken quite a lot of heat for putting in place the capability to block tweets on a geographical basis. This begins to look a little unfair in light of the fact that Google quietly adopted a similar policy before Twitter. Thats shown by the answer to a question on Googles Blogger site about blogs being ...
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• Another Reason We Need Open Government Data: To Avoid Information Asymmetries

  
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  Can the future aggregate actions of people be predicted from relevant sets of data that describe them? That, of course, is what Isaac Asimovs invented mathematical discipline of psychohistory was supposed to do. Some Japanese researchers claim to have made some progress towards that goal :  On Techdirt .
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• Will Academics Boycott Of Elsevier Be The Tipping Point For Open Access -- Or Another Embarrassing Flop?

  
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  Its now widely recognized that the extreme demands of SOPA/PIPA catalyzed a new activism within the Net world, epitomized by the blackout effected by sites like Wikipedia on January 18. But as Techdirt has reported, SOPA and PIPA are not the only attacks by the copyright industries on the digital commons: another is ...
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• EU Politicians Send Letter To US Congress Warning Of Extraterritorial Effects Of SOPA And PIPA

  
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  Since SOPA and PIPA are US bills, the focus has naturally been on the US response to them – notably in the list of major sites that participated in the blackout, or who have otherwise protested against the proposed legislation. But its important to remember that the whole rationale of these new laws is tackling ...
  3 weeks ago

• Daily Briefing: 1.18.2012 (SOPA Edition)

  
  Gear Patrol | The Definitive Men's Resource — Authority: 581
  A Guide to SOPA WSJ Progressive Change Campaign Committee Petition PCCC End Piracy, Not Liberty Google NYTimes and LATimes Come Out Against SOPA TechDirt How SOPA Would Affect You, an FAQ CNet The President’s Challenge O’Reilly SOPA on Wikipedia Wikipedia
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• NewsRight’s potential: New content packages, niche audiences, and revenue

  
  Nieman Journalism Lab — Authority: 681
  When NewsRight — the Associated Press spinoff formerly known as News Licensing Group (and originally announced by the AP as an unnamed “rights clearinghouse”) — began to lift the veil a couple of weeks ago , most of the attention and analysis focused on “preserving the value” of news content for ...
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• Argentina Building Huge Biometric Database For Use With Polices Face Recognition Technology

  
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  One of the more unfortunate consequences of Moores Law is that technologies that erode privacy are becoming cheaper every year – and hence more attractive to governments eager to spy on their own populace. The latest to heed the siren call of mass surveillance is Argentina.  On Techdirt .
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• Indian Judge Tells Google And Facebook To Check And Remove Objectionable Material Or Be Blocked

  
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  A few weeks back, Techdirt reported on an Indian minister asking Internet companies to do the impossible:  On Techdirt .
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• German Court: ISP Must Not Block Access To Foreign Sites, Even If They Are Illegal

  
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  Against a background where some European courts are telling ISPs that they must block access to certain sites (in Finland and the UK , for example), this news from Germany comes as a refreshing change ( original German article in Der Spiegel ):  On Techdirt .
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• Why Apple Will Not Be Part Of The Real Tablet Revolution

  
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  You dont have to be a marketing genius or industry pundit to foresee that tablets will be an extremely hot sector in 2012. The launch of Apples iPad in 2010 largely defined the category, just as the launch of the iPhone defined a new kind of smartphone in 2007; in 2012 we will probably begin to see Android tablets ...
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• Jazz Pioneer Jelly Roll Mortons Music Finally Free For Re-use In Europe -- A Hundred Years Too Late

  
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  A recent Techdirt post reminded us that thanks to its crazy copyright laws, the US wont be seeing anything new in the public domain for many years. But even in those "fortunate" countries that get to use cultural works a mere 70 years after the creators death, the situation is still pretty absurd.  On Techdirt .
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