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almansi - CTE (Cinéma tous écrans, Geneva, where I presented the CC licenses in the discussion on the internet and copyright)
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Gallery of CSS Descramblers (compiler: David S. Touretzky), 2001 (?)
"If code that can be directly compiled and executed may be suppressed under the DMCA, as Judge Kaplan asserts in his preliminary ruling, but a textual description of the same algorithm may not be suppressed, then where exactly should the line be drawn? This web site was created to explore this issue, and point out the absurdity of Judge Kaplan's position that source code can be legally differentiated from other forms of written expression. "
Open Rights Group | Speech to European Commission hearing on Google Books Settlement, calling for greater flexibility in copyright. 7 September 2009.
So to recap:
* The public needs Google Books or services like it
* We need competition between services
* Copyright licensing needs both licensor information and collective agreements
* DRM needs regulation
* The public domain needs protecting
* Academia needs the full benefits
* And our European economies need a much more flexible copyright regime, or we stand to lose out in culture, innovation and jobs.
anti-virus rants - Kurt Wismer
devising a framework for thinking about malware and related issues such as viruses, spyware, worms, rootkits, drm, trojans, botnets, keyloggers, droppers, downloaders, rats, adware, spam, stealth, fud, snake oil, and hype...
Wanted: Your Stories of Disability Versus Copyright Law | Electronic Frontier Foundation - Danny O'Brien Apr 15 09
In preparation for WIPO's initiative on Exceptions & Limitations to Copyright, the US Copyright Office is currently soliciting comments on the topic of "facilitating access to copyrighted works for the blind or persons with other disabilities". Written comments are due next week (April 21st, 2009), and there will be a public meeting in Washington on May 18th. EFF will be sending our own submission, as will many other IP and disability groups. But if you've worked on software or hardware to overcome your own visual or other disabilities, or co-operated informally (perhaps in an open source project) to provide wider access to content for users with disabilities, or have dealt with a publisher regarding the accessibility of texts, we'd like to encourage you to send the copyright office your own stories — and cc: us at accessibility@eff.org.
Will E-Book Anti-Piracy Technology Hurt Readers? (also on Kindle). Laura Sydell, NPR March 25 09
Amazon's Kindle, the first eBook reader that has really started to catch on with the public, deals almost exclusively with eBooks that have DRM.\nAccording to Ian Fried, the vice president of Amazon Kindle, customers don't seem to mind: "We've had very few if any customer responses that the choice we made with DRM was a problem."\nBut DRM could become a problem if the Kindle goes bust - then all those people who bought Kindle eBooks with DRM will have no way to read them because no other device can open the files.\nBeyond that, not everyone agrees that DRM is a good business strategy. Publishing consultant Michael Shatzkin says it's tough to make the case that file-sharing reduces sales. He cites science fiction writer Cory Doctorow who, he says, "does the best he can to give away as much of his content as possible." And by giving it away, Shatzkin says, Doctorow's sales have skyrocketed.
Cory Doctorow: Authors have lost the plot in Amazon Kindle battle | Technology | guardian.co.uk March 31 09
But while we were all running our mouths about the plausibility of the singularity emerging from Amazon's text-to-speech R&D, a much juicier issue was escaping our notice: it is technically possible for Amazon to switch off the text-to-speech feature for some or all books.\nThat's a hell of a thing, isn't it? Now that Amazon has agreed with the Authors Guild that text-to-speech will only be switched on for authors who sign a contract permitting it, we should all be goggling in amazement at the idea that this can be accomplished.\nNeither of these should inspire confidence in the Kindle as a long-term device. Dropping $359 (£251) on a device whose features are subject to the outcomes of ongoing negotiations to which you are not a party is, frankly, nuts.
Why Kindle Should Be An Open Book - O'Reilly, Forbes, Feb 23 09
Unless Amazon embraces open standards, the Kindle's lead will become a very short story.
Kindle e-reader: A Trojan horse for free thought | Emily Walshe, csmonitor.com March 3 09
All you really need to know about the dangers of digital commodification you learned in kindergarten.\n\nThink back. Remember swapping your baloney sandwich for Jell-o pudding? Now, imagine handing over your sandwich and getting just a spoon.\n\nThat's one trade you'd never make again.\n\nYet that's just what millions of Americans are doing every day when they read "books" on Kindle, Amazon's e-reading device. In our rush to adopt new technologies, we have too readily surrendered ownership in favor of its twisted sister, access.
Discovery hits Amazon with Kindle patent suit | Digital Media - CNET News - Greg Sandoval Mar 17 09
According to a copy of the suit, Discovery charges that Amazon violated its patent for Electronic Book Security and Copyright Protection System. The patent, U.S. 7,298,851, was issued to Discovery Communications by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on Nov. 20, 2007, per the lawsuit filing (PDF). It was initially filed in 1999.
Non boycottate gli e-book per il Kindle di Amazon - March 03 09
Non boycottate gli e-book per il Kindle di Amazon che costano più di $9.99.
Boycottate Kindle, il lettore di e-book di Amazon.
WRS | Gadget Guru: Amazon's Kindle, ...Feb 18 09
Alex Helmick and the Guru check out the hot new ebook, the Amazon Kindle 2... but nothing on controversy about TTS, Authors' Guild, blind people's reactions to AG and Amazon caving in to AG. Nothing about DRM either.
Amazon invokes DMCA against Kindle e-books from other vendors | Politics and Law - CNET News Declan McCullagh March 13 09
The author of the software in question, titled Kindlepid.py, is listed as Igor Skochinsky, a hardware hacker who performed a remarkable analysis of the Kindle and described in December 2007 how he was able to gain access to the device.
It's unclear why Amazon waited so long to respond with a legal threat, and why the company targeted MobileRead.com: Skochinsky's original blog post about Kindlepid.py is dated December 2007, and the copy of the Kindlepid.py software hosted at the Googlepages.com Web-page posting site is still available for download at http://skochinsky.googlepages.com/azw-0.2.zip
Music lessons | theBookseller.com -Tom Tivnan (about Kindle being proprietary)
Closely aligned to the DRM issue is that there are a multiplicity of e-book formats, many of which cannot be read on other devices. As with DRM, consumer frustration is bound to arise if readers have to jump through hoops to read legally purchased books. This is perhaps not a problem at the moment, when the bulk of e-reader owners are early adopters, yet it will become more acute when the devices are more widely disseminated among less tech-savvy users.
As Kassia Krozser, co-founder of medialoper.com who writes widely on digital entertainment issues, blogs on her publishing site Booksquare.com: "DRM, as implemented now, does not deter piracy. It does deter reading." She later reminds publishers that "your customers (again: the ones who give you money) don't read on one device, on one operating system, in one location. As you move forward with your digital initiatives, think about how real people read books."
Brief an alle Fraktionsvorsitzenden und ausgewählte NationalrätInnen (URG) PDF
Wenn wir nach wie vor auch einige grundsätzliche Bedenken mit der vorliegenden Neufassung des URG haben, so möchten wir aus aktuellem Anlass in erster Linie betonen, wie zentral für uns der Artikel 39a Absatz 4 ist.
Internet Archive Search: doctorow pwned
Doctorow's copyright class at USC: lecture, discussions and readings on the basics of information security, from Augustus Caesar to Alan Turing; from the crypto wars to the DRM wars
How Hollywood, Congress, And DRM Are Beating Up The American Economy -- Intellectual Property - Cory Doctorow - giu 11, 2007
Entertainment is using America's clout to force Russia to institute police inspections of its CD presses, apparently oblivious to the irony of post-Soviet Russia forgoing its hard-won freedom of the press to protect Disney and Universal.
Cory Doctorow's craphound.com » Talk ["0WNED -- HOW HOLLYWOOD PLANS ON MAKING THE FUTURE SUBSERVIENT TO THE PAST" - on DRM etc] at Olin College, March 8 06
"Here's the audio of my speech last month [Feb 16, 06 at Olin College, a small, elite engineering school outside of Boston. "
Olin Seminar Series: Doctorow's "0WNED -- HOW HOLLYWOOD PLANS ON MAKING THE FUTURE SUBSERVIENT TO THE PAST"
Your technology, your endeavors, your freedoms are all falling to the onslaught of entertainment-industry- funded initiatives that are destroying the future to preserve its dinosauric business models. Get your pitchforks and torches, burn your Sony rootkit-infected CDs, and take to the streets. They've declared war on you and your way of life -- if you don't defend yourself, who will?
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