Fighting for your Right… to Copy
Check out this Dan Gillmor column on Apple’s unique consumer-rights focus in the “digital rights management” (DRM) debate. If you like that, it got slashdotted.
View ArticleCopyright Power To the People
On Thursday Rep. Rick Boucher (D-Va.) and Rep. John Doolittle (D-Calif.) introduced the Digital Media Consumers Rights Act to preserve specific fair-use rights to copy digital works as well as...
View ArticleThe DMCA’s Day In Court (9 October 2002)
Goofy title, goofy illustration, but Glitterati vs. Geeks in MSNBC seems to be a pretty good introduction to Eldred v. Ashcroft, a case coming before the Supreme Court of the US next week regarding...
View ArticleNew rates for web radio
HOUSE APPROVES ROYALTY SCHEDULE FOR WEB RADIO OPERATORS The U.S. House of Representatives has approved an arrangement that will allow smaller Web radio stations to pay a percentage of revenue or...
View ArticleAh, the irony…
Lawrence Lessig notes this irony: Walt Disney Pictures is a few weeks away from the release of Treasure Planet, tagged: “Robert Louis Stevenson’s greatest adventure ‘Treasure Island’ as it has never...
View ArticleTaking it to the streets
Riding along with the Internet Bookmobile Angered by a law that extends copyright terms for 20 years, a crusader named Brewster Kahle wants to use the Internet to make books available to everyone....
View ArticleCopyright Cops Further Out of Control
Security Alert: eBay Prevents Musician from Selling Own CD-Rs “George Ziemann, an independent musician, made an album with his band and like many small operators, he then produced copies of the the...
View ArticleDMCA Discussed
Adam C. Engst, publisher of the TidBITS newsletter, has been writing incredibly clear and insightful articles about technology since 1990. In the latest issue, he provides an excellent discussion of...
View ArticlePromoting Innovation?
They say that copyright and intellectual property laws are intended to promote innovation. Lawrence Lessig comments on an interesting personal email: Jason Schultz has done more amazing work...
View ArticlePiracy is Progressive Taxation
Publisher Tim O’Reilly has authored a provocative look at issues in digital distribution. My favorite is “Lesson 5: File sharing networks don’t threaten book, music, or film publishing. They threaten...
View ArticleLicense, Please?
Today marks the “1.0 release” of the Creative Commons Licensing Project. The licensing project aims to make it very easy for people to clearly state the terms under which their creative work can be...
View ArticleDRM Hysteria/Apple iTunes Update
A current SlashDot posting, Apple Updates, Cripples iTunes shows just how hysterical some people can get when they get an ideological burr under their saddles. So now the update prevents sharing...
View ArticleCreative Commons: Embedding Licensing Info
Thanks to Denise Howell, I see that the Creative Commons has formulated a plan for embedding verifiable licensing data in digital media files (like MP3s). Their hope is that software authors will...
View ArticleNo Wonder People Are Confused about DRM
A couple of weeks ago, I was disappointed by the media coverage about Amazon’s entry into digital music sales. The New York Times wrote: “Apple plans to start selling EMI’s songs as MP3 format later...
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