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12 Sep 09

BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Labels sue Ellen show over songs

  • t also said the programme routinely used some of the most popular songs of the day, which the record labels do not license for daytime television at any price.
22 Aug 09

Coalition to challenge Google Books settlement | Digital Media - CNET News

  • It's an unusual reunion for Reback, who marshaled industry opposition to Microsoft's efforts to squeeze Netscape from the browser business. Reback, who until 2000 was a partner at the storied firm of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, was responsible for compiling evidence to aid the U.S. Department of Justice's antitrust case against Microsoft on behalf of Microsoft's Silicon Valley adversaries. In 2003, PeopleSoft hired Reback in its failed effort to fend off Oracle's hostile $6.3 billion takeover bid.
11 Jul 09

P2P Blog » Three strikes: Five minutes per court decision

  • The original HADOPI plans called for 250,000 blocked Internet accounts per year. The new proposal is slightly less ambitious and only calls for 50,000 decisions per year. The government study still estimates that it would take 109 new full-time positions, including 26 judges, to deal with these cases. One can easily imagine the total cost to reach tens of millions of dollars.
05 Jul 09

RIAA triumphs in Usenet copyright case | Digital Media - CNET News

  • Baer noted that in citing the Betamax case, Usenet.com failed to see one important difference between it and Sony. Once Sony sold a Betamax, an early videotape recorder, the company's relationship with the buyer ended. Sony held no sway over what the buyer did with the device after that. Usenet.com, however, maintains an ongoing relationship with the customer and does has some say in how the customer uses the service.
  • The RIAA accused Usenet.com of intentionally destroying the contents on seven hard drives that contained employee-generated data; providing false information; and attempting to prevent employees from giving depositions by sending them to Europe.
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25 Jun 09

Record biz tries suing Irish ISPs into submission - Ars Technica

  • But neither BT Ireland nor UPC Ireland sound inclined to settle. A UPC spokesperson told the Irish Times that "there is no basis under Irish law requiring ISPs to control, access or block the internet content its users download" and that the ISP would fight the case in court.

German MP jumps ship for Pirate Party • The Register

  • Tauss said in a statement that the main German parties' decision to OK legislation to impose a police operated "block list" on verboten websites, would serve not so much to combat child porn as to "set up a technical infrastructure of censorship," the AP said.

Ouch! German Court Slams Rapidshare With $34 Million Fine

  • For this case, Rapidshare will appeal to higher courts and most likely restrict the scope of the decisions made by the Regional Court in Hamburg. Rapishare COO Bobby Chang, according to TorrentFreak, said “it would make more sense to offer music fans the right products and services at the right price to open up a new source of income for music-markets on the Internet.”
20 Jun 09

Copyright report lacked balance: Conference Board

  • "Plagiarism did occur, and it wasn't detected due to insufficient oversight of this project," the conference board also reiterated Wednesday.

Bezos: We've got issues with Google Book Search | The Social - CNET News

  • "There are many forces of work looking at that and saying it doesn't seem right that you should do something, kind of get a prize for violating a large series of copyrights," Bezos said.
  • In New York, a longtime global hub of the beleaguered publishing, media, and advertising industries, what he had to say was particularly weighted. The Kindle, after all, is doing extremely well: Bezos said that out of the entire offering of 300,000 books available for both the Kindle and physical retail on Amazon, that the Kindle's sales are 35 percent of physical books' after only 18 months on the market.

Virgin Media, Universal to offer unlimited music| Entertainment| Music| Reuters

  • Virgin said as part of its cooperation with the music industry it would also work to prevent piracy on its network by educating users and would, as a last resort for persistent offenders, suspend Internet access.




    Virgin said no customers would be permanently disconnected.

Temporary Restraining Order Issued in Salinger Case - 6/17/2009 1:09:00 PM - Publishers Weekly

  • atts seemed thoroughly unmoved by defendants’ argument that their client's use of Holden Caulfield as a character, referred to as "Mr. C." in the book, is criticism or commentary. Frankfurt, Kurnit, Klein & Selz attorney Ned Rosenthal argued that whether or not Colting was successful in his attempt to use the Caulfield character or events from the Catcher in the Rye for commentary was not at issue, as long as the attempt to do so was perceptible.
13 Jun 09

Record Companies Trying to Stop Music Sharing with New CD Security

  • The technology is all about limiting how the computer sees the disc – this means that when inserted into the computer only the packaged player (on the CD) can play the music.


    The news already triggered many protests from music listeners who argue that CDs are a traditional medium and that PCs and various portable devices have become the main source of music.

Intellectual Property Watch » Blog Archive » Copyright Holders Acknowledge Losing Battle For Public Consciousness At World Copyright Summit

  • He cited MPAA’s work with the technology industry in the introduction of the DVD. He also noted that via Hulu - a joint venture of NBC Universal and News Corp. that offers television shows for free, for now - almost all TV products can be legitimately available to consumers in the United States.


    ”We’ve got to do more of that. We live in an age where we cannot block access to our content,” he said. “People are going to get it one way or the other. We would like them to pay for it and we need to seek out ways where they can pay for it. But just saying ‘no’ isn’t the answer.”

ISPs and Copyright Holders Set Up ‘Pirate Review Board’ | TorrentFreak

  • Other proposals involving the ‘Pirate Board’ surround the hot issue of a 3 Strikes-style regime for file-sharers, but with a twist. Rather than rights holders sending warnings to alleged file-sharers via ISPs, instead these would be issued by the Pirate Board. If the recipients of these warnings then fail to respond, they wouldn’t be disconnected from the Internet but instead find themselves in a traditional court case.

Thomas judge bars Fair Use defense, OKs MediaSentry evidence - Ars Technica

  • "The Pen Register Act cannot be intended to prevent
    individuals who receive electronic communications from recording the IP
    information sent to them. If it did apply in those cases, then the Internet could not function because standard computer operations require recording IP
    addresses so parties can communicate with one another over the Internet," he wrote.
  • So much for that defense, which aimed to kneecap the recording industry lawsuit before the trial even began. (Camara does plan to contest the labels' copyright registrations, though, which would also cripple the case completely.)

Stern letters from ISPs not enough to stop P2P use after all - Ars Technica

  • Currently, some of the country's largest ISPs are voluntarily forwarding warning letters from the rightsholders to customers, but they are not passing subscriber information back to rightsholders—and they are not imposing any sanctions. That could change as the government gets involved in the debate; the key "Digital Britain" report that will shape government policy in this area and others comes out on June 16.
06 Jun 09

Copyright Law Blog: Exclusive Rights

  • The authorized dealers imported the watches into the U.S. and then sold them to Costco. This stream of commerce enabled Costco to sell the watches to customers below retail price. In 2003, Omega began to engrave its watches with a small emblem — not more than half centimeter across — which Omega registered with the copyright office. Repeat the same stream of commerce again in 2004: Omega sells watches to dealers in Egypt and Paraguay; dealers import the watches into the U.S; dealers sell the watches to Costco; and Costco sells the watches to customers below the retail price. Except, this time around, Omega filed suit alleging that Costco’s acquisition and sale of the watches constituted copyright infringement under 17 U.S.C. §§ 106(3) and 602(a).

Downloading 3322 Copyrighted Movies is Okay in Spain | TorrentFreak

  • Not everyone agrees with Spain’s liberal view on copyright infringement. According to the US, the Spanish government has done little “to change the widespread misperception in Spain that peer-to-peer file-sharing is legal.” However, as the courts show time and time again, this is no misperception - it is how the law spells it out.
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