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The future of Internet radio appears more secure after a handful of online stations reached an agreement Tuesday to head off a potentially crippling increase in copyright royalty rates.
The deal is the product of two years of negotiations between webcasters and copyright holders. In March 2007, a ruling by the federal Copyright Royalty Board dramatically raised the rates that Internet radio stations must pay artists and recording labels _ leading many online radio stations to warn that the new rates would put them out of business by eating up as much as 70 percent of revenue.The future of Internet radio appears more secure after a handful of online stations... more
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The Open philosophy as applied to movies & animations deals with three related concepts:
* open, collaborative projects maintained by a community;
* open source software;
* the copyleft / public domain side of the digital rights spectrum.
In regards to the first issue, a good starting point could be just watching a video called “RIP: A remix Manifesto“.
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A project by the Electronic Frontier Foundation has been created to help teachers provide accurate informations about the laws concerning digital rights & the concepts of copyright and piracy.
There are lots of free resources for both student and educators, available in PDF documents, external links, or “Frequently Asked Questions” pages; you can access all of them on the TeachingCopyright website, which is structured as a curriculum…
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A conference for, and about free culture, technology, copyright, remixing, and free software with Prof. Lawrence Lessig, Prof. Pam Samuelson, and John Lilly, CEO of Mozilla and many more panels and presenters lined up.A conference for, and about free culture, technology, copyright, remixing, and free... more
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The user-friendly mixtape Web site, Muxtape, might be forced to shut down for good - and here's why.The user-friendly mixtape Web site, Muxtape, might be forced to shut down for good -... more
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by Catherine Holahan// BusinessWeek
Viacom's suit seeks a better way to remove copyright-violating YouTube uploads. Why don't content creators and Web sites both foot the bill?
To hear Google (GOOG) tell it, Viacom (VIA) wants to unravel the social Web. If Viacom had its druthers, Web sites that rely on user-generated content would be held responsible when users upload material that violates copyrights, Google argues in a public response to Viacom's $1 billion lawsuit accusing Google of copyright infringement.
The implication, Google argues, is that services like video-sharing site YouTube would have trouble getting off the ground. "Viacom's lawsuit challenges the protections of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act that Congress enacted a decade ago to encourage the development of services like YouTube," Google wrote in its May 26 response. "Congress recognized that such services could not and would not exist if they faced liability for copyright infringement based on materials users uploaded to their services."
Google is only partly right. It's true that doing away with certain DMCA protections—such as those that shield Internet companies from liability for distributed content—would indeed hamper many sites. After all, it's nearly impossible for companies to ensure that all the videos, photos, comments, and other content uploaded to sites don't violate copyrights. Even if such omniscient content screening were possible, it would undoubtedly be cost-prohibitive for all but the largest players.
But Viacom isn't looking to dismantle the DMCA, though its suit does point to a major flaw in the law that Web sites and media companies both must address: what to do when infringing content is taken down but then immediately put back online. "Even after it [YouTube] receives a notice from a copyright owner, in many instances the very same infringing video remains on YouTube because it was uploaded by at least one other user, or appears on YouTube again within hours of its removal," Viacom says in its complaint...
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Full story at link.
by Catherine Holahan// BusinessWeek
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Is your seat belt on? Prepare to ruminate...it's gonna be a bumpy ride.
"In February, last year Comedy Central's parent company Viacom served YouTube and Google with a lawsuit seeking more than a billion dollars in damages. The crime? Copyright infringement. The company says that YouTube contained over 160,000 unathorized clips from programmes Viacom owns, including "South Park" and "The Colbert Report." In cases like this, the copyright issue seems clear, but there are other circumstances where the dividing lines are blurry. Video mashups that use multiple sources, lipsynching videos, and even clips where amateurs re-stage famous sketches, could all be on shaky legal ground.
"If you're using someone else's video, music or images, or even someone else's script without permission, then you could be infringing copyright," says Gavin McGinty.
"It doesn't particularly matter if the clip is short: "Copyright infringement is copying a substantial part of a work, either in a qualitative or quantitative sense," he says. "For example, you could put a five-second clip from "The Daily Show" in a video mashup. If that five seconds was the funniest part, that could be seen as substantial."
"The rule of thumb is, if you're likely to be able to spot the origin of the source material, then it's likely to be a substantial part. A valid defense may be 'fair dealing', which is similar but by no means identical tothe American concept of 'fair use'.
"Fair dealing enables you to use small parts of works for personal, noncommercial purposes. The classic examples are research and private study. That wouldn't normally cover posting video online, though. The American version, 'fair use', is so much wider than the UK version."
"In this case, it may depend on where a lawsuit is raised. "You have the issue that the content is accessible in any country in the world. Big media companies have clearance departments to make sure that everything shown in a work is cleared everywhere it's shown."
as gleaned from a recent "Future, Media with Passion" Future Publishing Ltd article
by Gavin McGinty
Technology and Commercial Lawyer at Pinsent Masons
www.pinsentmasons.com
imho this is currently a bigger issue than "climate change" with as many or more future ramifications for culture, creativity and the free expression of ideas.
other valuable resources:
http://freeculture.org/
http://www.lessig.org/
among others I'm sure =D Is your seat belt on? Prepare to ruminate...it's gonna be a bumpy ride.
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Looks like the The Pirate Bay's ship is in troubled waters. Swedish prosecutors have filed a copyright infringement suit against the notorious piracy website, claiming it's making a profit from the trade in illegal downloads. While the site doesn't host any content itself, it acts as a search engine to millions of others' computer files. Those pesky pirates.
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An incredible documentary about the current state of copyright and culture.
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just in case you needed another reason to love our fearless leader...
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It's good to see today's youth (which I hope still includes my 26 year old self) taking a stand and being more proactive, as opposed to just sitting around complaining (like i do on my blog!). but at the same time i feel their youthful exuberance betrays them...copyright and other intellectual property laws, while currently flawed and in need of an update to properly take into account modern technology, serves very important purposes. in fact, the entire premise behind IP law is to provide an incentive to create by giving the creators certain rights in their work.
free music, books, art, and so on would be nice...but it's also just not very practical. a balance is necessary and in the end, quality products (ranging from music to pharmaceuticals) must come at fair and reasonable prices. it's getting to this balance that is difficult.It's good to see today's youth (which I hope still includes my 26 year old self)... more
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Amazon's new DRM-free mp3 store has a very restrictive user agreement, which requires user to agree "that you will not redistribute, transmit, assign, sell, broadcast, rent, share, lend, modify, adapt, edit, sub-license or otherwise transfer or use the Digital Content."
What does this mean? If you use Amazon MP3 in your pods, you'll be violating the Amazon's user agreement, even if Current's music department clears it with the record label. Fair use is also potentially excluded, since this is restrictions in addition to standard copyright.
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just in case you needed another reason to love our fearless leader...
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Being somewhat of a law geek [at least Intellectual Property stuff] and also some what of a tech nerd [not a very savvy one tho] I'm not sure how I feel about this. I guess the part that concerns me the most is how it changes the system to a first-to-file one from the first-to-invent. Reducing the ridiculous amount of litigation that goes on when it comes to patent infringement is an admirable goal but to do so at the cost of inventors is antithetical to Intellectual Property law at its core, which is not only intended to protect inventors' rights but more importantly to stimulate creativity by doing so. Reducing the value of being the first to create something seems to stifle creativity.Being somewhat of a law geek [at least Intellectual Property stuff] and also some what... more
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Earlier this month, the Computer & Communications Industry Association filed a complaint with the FTC alleging that professional sports leagues, Hollywood studios, and book publishers were all using copyright notices that misrepresented the law. Now, the group has launched a web site called Defend Fair Use that shows they are serious about making the complaint stick. (Ars Technica)Earlier this month, the Computer & Communications Industry Association filed a... more
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Brilliant explanation of copyright law done via bashup of sundbites from disney films.
I got a bit dizzy after a few minutes of watching this...
Brilliant explanation of copyright law done via bashup of sundbites from disney films.... more
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Fighting on behalf of creators and not just as a suit out for a better deal term, Bob Tur is another modern-day David worth watching...Fighting on behalf of creators and not just as a suit out for a better deal term, Bob... more
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An association of computer and communication companies, including Google, Microsoft and Yahoo, on Wednesday accused several professional sports leagues, book publishers and other media companies of misleading and threatening consumers with overstated copyright warnings. (NYT)An association of computer and communication companies, including Google, Microsoft... more
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Guardian: Digital rights management is a lie concocted to bilk the entertainment industry out of a fortune - it's time to wake up.Guardian: Digital rights management is a lie concocted to bilk the entertainment... more
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BBC: Social networks are changing the way people consume music at a time when piracy is on the rise and the rate of growth of legal downloads has slowed.BBC: Social networks are changing the way people consume music at a time when piracy... more
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