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Freedom for Professor Horacio Potel
A philosophy professor in Argentina, Horacio Potel, is facing criminal charges for maintaining a website devoted to translations of works by French philosopher Jacques Derrida. His alleged crime: copyright infringement. Here is Professor Potel’s sad story
Cory Doctorow: Authors have lost the plot in Amazon Kindle battle | Technology | guardian.co.uk
Amazon's Kindle 2 text-to-speech feature is not so much violating authors' copyright but rather basic consumer rights
Crafting an Effective Copyright Law
In the SCL Annual Lecture for 2009, leading copyright expert William Patry made a stunning intellectual case for a new approach to copyright law – crafting effective law, not aiming for the ‘strong copyright law’ which had become a ritual aim for many. He
RiP: A Remix Manifesto
Finally got a chance to watch this. Brilliant open source video on remix culture. Brilliant insights, wonderful interactive opportunities.
New York Times sends legal threats to blogs - Boing Boing
Apartment Therapy New York received a DMCA take-down notice from the NY Times demanding removal of a long list of blog posts containing images from the Times (in posts about relevant Times articles).
The Drishti Blog » Blog Archive » Who Should Own the Rights to Yoga?
India has decided to take some serious action in response to the 2,580 (!) yoga-related patents, copyrights, and trademarks that have been filed in the U.S. (Hello… Bikram?) In order to take back ownership of what they feel to be their national legacy o
Watching YouTube » On Losing and Regaining a YouTube Account (Kevin Lee)
The following is extracted from Keven Lee’s blog post ‘Things I Learned from Losing - and Regaining - My YouTube Account’:
Watching YouTube » ‘Copyright Challenges for User Generated Intermediaries: Viacom v YouTube and Google.
In Brian Fitzgerald, Fuping Gao, Damien O’Brien and Sampsung Xiaoxiang Shi, eds., Copyright Law, Digital Content and the Internet in the Asia-Pacific, 219–33. Sydney: Sydney University Press, 2008.
Watching YouTube » Twice as Many Videos Removed from YouTube in January 2009 as in all of 2008
According to MIT’s YouTomb project, “there were twice as many videos removed from YouTube in January 2009 as in the entire previous year combined.”
Steal This Film - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Steal This Film is a film series documenting the movement against intellectual property produced by The League of Noble Peers and released via the BitTorrent peer-to-peer protocol.
Imagine a world without copyright - International Herald Tribune
we have to admit that copyright serves an altogether different purpose in the contemporary world. It now is the tool that conglomerates in the music, publishing, imaging and movie industries use to control their markets. These industries decide whether th
Copyright in Photography
There are a tremendous number of myths surrounding photography copyright, mostly due to incorrect or inaccurate interpretations of copyright law and how it applies to the internet.
Economist calculates optimum term of copyright: 14 years! - Boing Boing
Rufus Pollock, a PhD candidate in economics at Cambridge University, has just released "Forever Minus a Day? Some Theory and Empirics of Optimal Copyright," a brilliant new paper on the economically optimal term of copyright.
The Pirate Bay - Innocent or Guilty? | TorrentFreak
After two weeks of live broadcasted hearings on the Internet, the ‘Spectrial’ is coming to an end. This week both parties presented their closing statements to the court. Time for us to weigh up developments so far and look forward to the verdict.
Copyright Holders Challenge Sites That Scrape Content - NYTimes.com
But some media executives are growing concerned that the increasingly popular curators of the Web that are taking large pieces of the original work — a practice sometimes called scraping — are shaving away potential readers and profiting from the content.
Kindles and "creative machines" blur boundaries of copyright - Ars Technica
The Authors Guild has invited plenty of ridicule by claiming that Amazon's Kindle 2 violates authors' rights by reading works aloud. But buried in their argument is a surprisingly tangled puzzle for copyright law in the digital era.
Science Commons: Scholar's Copyright Agreement
The Scholar's Copyright Addendum Engine will help you generate a PDF form that you can attach to a journal publisher's copyright agreement to ensure that you retain certain rights.
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