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"For everybody: very important guidelines concerning copyright . Available in German (pdf, 116 KB) and French (pdf, 120 KB) " - warning: they date back to 2003, and thus don't cover the 2008 revision of CH copyright law, nor the new "Web 2.0" publishing tools that raise several copyright issues.
Lessig: "It Is About Time: Getting Our Values Around Copyright Right" Educause 09 (transcript)
"So, let me make one final plea, to bring you into this battle. You all know, we are in the middle of a war. I don't mean - actually, we are in the middle of many wars - I mean actually one war here, the copyright war. War that the late Jack Valenti, my friend - extraodinary man - used to refer to as his own "terrorist war"? - where apparently , the terrorists in this war are our children. (audience laughs). So we organize and wage war against these terrorists. We talk about this as a war that needs to be waged against these pirates. And the thing that we need to recognize as educators, as scientists, as parents, as people who understand the potential and uses of this technology, is: we can't kill this technology, we can only criminalize it. We're not going to stop our kids from creating the way they create, ways that we couldn't even begin to imagine creating, at least when I was growing up. We can only drive that creativity underground. We can't make our kids passive, the way that, again, I was passive growing up, the way Souza feared. We can only make them "pirates". And the question we, as a culture, need to ask is: Is that any good? Our kids live in this age of prohibitions, in all sorts of contexts of their life. They live life against the law. We tell them they live life against the law and they recognize their behavior is against the law. That recognition is extraordinarily corrosive, extraordinarily corruptive of the rule of law in a democracy.
3571.076838 3590.998233 You, each of you, all of us, have let this insanity happen. You, each of you, all of us, could, if we actually stood up and did something about it, make it stop. Thank you very much."
Teleticino - A Piazza: Dalla rete musica gratis per tutti? 16 Dec. 09 (video)
"Ospiti in studio: Paolo Meneguzzi, Dario Jucker, Mauro Rossi, Mauro Osenda e Giovanni Rengucci" (conduce GC Dillena)
Creative Commons and Related Rights in Sound Recordings: Are the Two Systems Compatible? (PDF) by Christina Angelopoulos - LL.M., Researcher, Institute for Information Law (IViR), Faculty of Law, University of Amsterdam. Dec. 09
Abstract:
Technically it is entirely possible to attach a Creative Commons license to a sound recording - but does the law permit it? This study examines the rights of performers and producers in the sound recordings they create, the collective management systems in place for the exploitation of those rights, and the relevant terms of the Creative Commons licenses. On this basis, it attempts to assess whether Creative Commons licenses can be attached to sound recordings, whether the use of such licenses can be combined with the collective management of related rights in sound recordings and, if so, under what circumstances and conditions this can be achieved.
How to Destroy the Book, by Cory Doctorow | theVARSITY.ca - Nov 13 09 talk
"There is a group of powerful anti-copyright activists out there who are trying to destroy the book. These pirates would destroy copyright, and they have no respect for our property. They dress up their thievery in high-minded rhetoric about how they are the true defenders and inheritors of creativity, and they have sold this claim around the world to regulators and lawmakers alike. There are members of Parliament and Congress-people who are unduly influenced by them. They say they’re only trying to preserve the way it’s always been. They claim that their radical agenda is somehow conservative. But what they really see is a future in which the electronic culture market grows by leaps and bounds and they get to be at the centre of it. They claim that this is about ethics, but anyone who thinks about it for a minute can see that it’s about profit."
Michael Geist: Record industry faces liability over `infringement' - thestar.com Dec 07 09
"Chet Baker was a leading jazz musician in the 1950s, playing trumpet and providing vocals. Baker died in 1988, yet he is about to add a new claim to fame as the lead plaintiff in possibly the largest copyright infringement case in Canadian history. His estate, which still owns the copyright in more than 50 of his works, is part of a massive class-action lawsuit that has been underway for the past year.
The infringer has effectively already admitted owing at least $50 million and the full claim could exceed $6 billion. If the dollars don't shock, the target of the lawsuit undoubtedly will: The defendants in the case are Warner Music Canada, Sony BMG Music Canada, EMI Music Canada, and Universal Music Canada, the four primary members of the Canadian Recording Industry Association."
Musiker verklagen Musikkonzerne - Robert A. Gehring, Golem.de Dec, 8 09
"Warner, Sony, EMI und Universal in Kanada auf der Anklagebank
In Kanada sehen sich die im Industrieverband CRIA zusammengeschlossenen Musikkonzerne mit einer enormen Schadensersatzklage konfrontiert. Die klagenden Musiker werfen Warner, Sony, EMI und Universal vor, ihre Urheberrechte bewusst verletzt zu haben."
Warum die Verleger zum Internet einfach schweigen sollten : netzpolitik.org. Markus Beckedahl, 25. Nov. 09
"...7. Wenn dem Onlinejournalismus etwas fehlt, ist es guter, anständig bezahlter Journalismus. Die Verleger jammern über zuwenig Beachtung ihrer Angebote und zuviel Rip-Offs, bezahlen zugleich ihren Onlineangestellten vergleichsweise Peanuts. Das ist scheinheilig."
YouTube - Cory Doctorow on Three Strikes Death Penalty (ST: En, Fr, It) - uploaded Nov 23 09
""Author and activist Cory Doctorow argues that the Internet is too central to our lives to be taken away for three accusations of copyright infringement. Along the way he proposes that turnabout is fair play, and thus Universal (for example) ought to have its access to the Net taken away if it issues three false accusations of infringement.""
Confalonieri, sos sui copyright "Governo tuteli i web content" - Tecnologia - Repubblica.it Nov. 19 09
"Il presidente di Mediaset invita l'esecutivo a intervenire affinché Google e Youtube riconoscano il valore della proprietà intellettuale dei prodotti diffusi gratuitamente"
PI: P2P, la Regina mostra le forbici - Mauro Vecchio, nov. 19 09
"Durante un discorso in Parlamento, Elisabetta II ha annunciato i piani del governo per l'economia digitale. Tra questi, l'introduzione delle disconnessioni forzose dei file sharer entro la primavera del 2011"
Corea del Sud: i 3-strikes falliscono : Movimento ScambioEtico. Paolo Brini Nov. 18 09
"Le leggi draconiane adottate in Corea del Sud da alcuni mesi non stanno dando i risultati sperati dall’industria del copyright, che ora chiede una legislazione ancora più dura."
Cory Doctorow on the Three Strikes Death Penalty - video - 1 Translation(s) | dotSUB
Video. Captions in EN and subtitles in FR - anyone can add subtitles in other languages.
Joho the Blog » Cory: No, three strikes and you’re out - David Weinberger Nov 17 09
"I’ve posted a video interview with Cory Doctorow at Broadband Strategy Week. Cory talks about the disproportionality of “three strikes” laws that take away Internet access from those who have been thrice accused of copyright infringement. Perhaps, he suggests, we should also take away Internet access from rightsholders who inaccurately accuse people of infringing copyright. The six minutes are a string of wonderful Cory paragraphs."
MediaBerkman » Blog Archive » Radio Berkman 137: Cory Doctorow – In Defense of © - conv. with David Weinberger. djones, Nov. 19 09
"Is the fate of books a forgone conclusion? Will they just continue to make their way out of print and into digital form? This week’s guest, author Cory Doctorow, suggests that we might want to keep books in print for a little while longer. Not just out of nostalgia – but actually to protect the institution of copyright."
Cory Doctorow on the Three Strikes Death Penalty - interview by David Weinberger - blip.tv
"Creative Commons LicenseThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0
Author and activist Cory Doctorow argues that the Internet is too central to our lives to be taken away for three accusations of copyright infringement. Along the way he proposes that turnabout is fair play, and thus Universal (for example) ought to have its access to the Net taken away if it issues three false accusations of infringement. "
Stopping the ACTA Juggernaut | Electronic Frontier Foundation - Eddan Katz - Nov. 19 09
"Such accountability is available in the U.S. system, but it cannot come from the Office of the USTR alone. If ACTA is going to regulate the global Internet, we believe that should warrant the opportunity for public comment."
Sara Bannerman: ACTA: walk away or get on board? Nov. 17 09
"On November 5th Michael Geist spoke at the American University in Washington about the ACTA. His presentation was part of a panel called "Strengthening IP Enforcement Through TRIPS and Other Multilateral Initiatives", with Daniel Gervais and Peter Yu and moderated by Padideh Ala'i (Webcast here).
Geist predicted that by 2010 ACTA will be fully drafted, that by 2011 it will be publicly disclosed, and that by 2012 efforts will have begun to expand the circle of countries to which ACTA applies. Countries excluded from ACTA will be presented with a fait accompli. They will have had no influence on the ACTA text. Nevertheless, they will eventually be asked to sign the document. Geist argues that, therefore, excluded countries should be banging down the door of ACTA, saying they want input now."
Michael Geist - The ACTA Threat: My Talk on Everything You Need To Know About ACTA, But Didn't Know To Ask - Nov 12 09
"ast week I participated in a conference at American University, Washington College of Law called Beyond TRIPS: The Current Push for Greater International Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights. Webcasts of the two panels are available online (my panel on TRIPs and ACTA; a second panel on U.S. efforts to increase international IP enforcement).
My 20 minute talk was essentially an ACTA 101: when it started, what it involves, and what may lie ahead. I've taken a recording of the talk mixed with the slides and posted a video version of the talk on Blip.tv. It is embedded below:"
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society: Accessibility and ACTA - Jim Fruchterman Nov 15 09
"The disability community should be concerned about ACTA for two reasons:
1. At its core it’s an anti-piracy agreement. The digital measures designed to defeat piracy usually end up equating accessibility with piracy.
2. The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) is being negotiated in secret. We don’t know if it’s benign or hostile to accessibility. "
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