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Remix Culture is a term popularized by Lawrence Lessig to describe how we continuously reinvent and reuse bits of culture. The most obvious examples are song remixes, mash-ups, fan music videos, and the like. Lessig argues that copyright laws should be reformed to make such remixes easier for fans to produce and distribute. It turns out that Mark Twain held a quite similar opinion, as laid out in a letter he sent to Helen Keller in response to learning of an allegation of plagiarism against her based on the similarities between a story she had published and an earlier work. Here’s Twain: ...
Los Angeles, CA - Last week a website called "library.nu" disappeared. A coalition of international scholarly publishers accused the site of piracy and convinced a judge in Munich to shut it down. ...
And not just any books - not romance novels or the latest best-sellers - but scholarly books: textbooks, secondary treatises, obscure monographs, biographical analyses, technical manuals, collections of cutting-edge research in engineering, mathematics, biology, social science and humanities.
The texts ranged from so-called "orphan works" (out-of-print, but still copyrighted) to recent issues; from poorly scanned to expertly ripped; from English to German to French to Spanish to Russian, with the occasional Japanese or Chinese text. It was a remarkable effort of collective connoisseurship. Even the pornography was scholarly: guidebooks and scholarly books about the pornography industry. For a criminal underground site to be mercifully free of pornography must alone count as a triumph of civilisation.
...Library.nu was making...learning possible where publishers have not. It made a good show of being a "book review" site - it was called library.nu after all, and not "bookstore.nu". It was not cluttered with advertisements, nor did it "suggest" other books constantly. It gave straight answers to straightforward searches, and provided user reviews of the 400,000 or more books in the database.
It was only the fact that library.nu included a link to another site ("sharehosting" sites like ifile.it, megaupload.com, or mediafire.com) containing the complete version of a digital text that brought library.nu into the realm of what passes for crime these days.
...library.nu was facilitating discovery: the ability to search deeper and deeper into the musical or scholarly tastes fellow humans and to discover their connections that no recommendation algorithm will ever be able to make. In their effort to control this market, publishers alongside the movie and music industry have been effectively criminalising sharing, learning and creating - not stealing.
My vids are 100% my own so I should have nothing to fear when I up load them to YouTube -- or so you'd think. ...
On three occasions now, I have received emails from YouTube advising me that a content/copyright claim has been made against one of my videos. These claims allege that I have used someone else's content without permission and therefore, the claimant will get any revenues that might arise from advertising that appears on those videos.
How on earth can that happen -- when the videos in question contain no third-party footage, no third party images and no music at all?
In a six to two ruling, the Supreme Court ruled that Congress may take books, musical compositions and other works out of the public domain, where they can be freely used and adapted, and grant them copyright status again. Just because material enters the public domain, it is not “territory that works may never exit,” the Supreme Court ruled on January 18, 2012...
Therefore decades or even centuries after its creator has passed on to another realm, a piece of art or film or literature may remain copyrighted content, perhaps forever.
The top court was ruling on a petition by a group of orchestra conductors, educators, performers, publishers and film archivists who urged the justices to reverse an appellate court that ruled against the group, which has relied on artistic works in the public domain for their livelihoods.
Piracy’s preserving effect, while little known, is actually nothing new. Through the centuries, the tablets, scrolls, and books that people copied most often and distributed most widely survived to the present. Libraries everywhere would be devoid of Homer, Beowulf, and even The Bible without unauthorized duplication.
...I'm guessing that the people who ran MegaUpload were knowingly profiting from the unauthorized download of other people's intellectual property (including mine). Probably they were making a lot of money that way. That's certainly illegal, and it doesn't exactly give them the moral high ground either. In fact, it's kind of a dick move. Essentially, they did bad things and they got in trouble for it. Here are the issues that, for me, make this complicated.
...Make good stuff, then make it easy for people to buy it. There’s your anti-piracy plan. ...right now everyone’s fighting to control distribution channels, which is why I can’t watch Star Wars on Netflix or iTunes. It’s fine if you want to have that fight, but don’t yell and scream about how you’re losing business to piracy when your stuff isn’t even available in the box I have on top of my TV.
What SOPA's principal sponsors appear to be doing, says Parness, is "clarifying the Copyright Act. ..."
His analysis indicates that the intent of the bill is to focus on specific instances where a foreign site gives clear reason to be suspected of activities that are already illegal from a U.S.-based site, and take such actions against them that are in keeping with what actions may be taken against domestic copyright violations. ...
The safe harbor provisions created by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act in 1998 would still apply to Internet service providers...
There are numerous ways for makers of pricey brand-name drugs to delay the release of generic copies and hold on to the market for even a few months longer. They could make slight changes to the doses or even go so far as to buy a company that supplies a needed ingredient. But one pharmaceutical company is taking a new approach to putting off the release of generic versions -- etching an additional score into the pill's surface.
Australian band Men At Work will not be allowed to make a final appeal against a ruling which found they partly copied 1983 hit Down Under from a folk song.
The High Court of Australia denied a final bid to quash a July 2010 ruling that a flute line from Kookaburra Sits in the Old Gum Tree was copied.
They had been ordered to pay 5% of song earnings since 2002, as well as future royalties, to the copyright owners.
Australia's Federal Court upheld the decision at an appeal in March.
Publishers Larrikin Music bought the rights to the classic Kookaburra folk song in 1990, following the death of its composer Marion Sinclair two years earlier.
It had sought 60% of royalties from chart-topping track Down Under, the story of a backpacker touring the world which famously makes references to Vegemite sandwiches and "chunder".
Google Inc. and authors and publishers groups have about nine more months to untangle their six-year-old legal dispute over plans to create the world's largest digital library, a federal judge said on Thursday.
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I would like everyone to have the means of production and the mental, emotional and social support structure to creatively express themselves. I would like storytellers to be rewarded for telling me a good tale, whether they are writers or dancers or directors or illustrators. But I cannot see illegal file-sharing as anything but an inevitable response to the complex systems of unequal wealth distribution and political hierarchy that permeate the sphere of creativity as commerce.
Last Tuesday, information activist Aaron Swartz was arrested for downloading almost the entire contents of JSTOR. This arrest is prompting a lot of discussion about the massive fail that is current academic publishing.
Following last June's raids on the filesharing site Kino.tv, the Society for Consumer Research carried out research on the users' entertainment consumption habits. The study concluded that Kino.tv's users were among the entertainment industry's best customers, using filesharing as a sampling method to determine which media to purchase, spending premiums to attend weekend showings of new films, and generally outspending average consumers in their media consumption. The unnamed client who commissioned the research reportedly rejected the findings and refused to publish them.
Should photographers be concerned about Google Plus? This is the subject on an ongoing debate right now, due to the wording Google uses in its Terms of Service - specifically parts that seem to indicate it will have rights to photos posted on the new social network. But some folks, including both professional photographers and an intellectual property attorney say the reaction is overblown. The issue is not a "Google" problem - it's something to consider before posting your images online, anywhere on the Web.
Kudos to Patrick McKay for winning Public Knowledge's "Copyright School" Video Challenge, a contest that asked remixers to come up with a more balanced eductaion video than YouTube's "Copyright School" (which, notoriously, featured a squirrel in a pirate hat.) You can see the video here:...
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