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A professor at Case Western Reserve University School of Law has created a nifty blog for students to hash out a debate about a fictional copyright-infringement case. -
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As the school year approaches, several Boston-area colleges are intensifying efforts to prevent illegal downloading on campus, including hosting sessions on the perils of pirating and offering students free, legal means of getting songs. -
1voteA survey in the United Kingdom has shown a 7 percent increase in the number of people downloading music illegally online, while the legal music download market is slowing. In the United States, however, data from earlier this year has indicated otherwise. According to the 2007 Digital Media Survey, which was published in the UK by Entertainment Media Research and law firm Olswang, unauthorized downloading of music is at its highest level - reversing the slight decline of last year.
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1voteNBC/Universal general counsel Rick Cotton suggests that society wastes entirely too much money policing crimes like burglary, fraud, and bank-robbing when it should be doing something about piracy instead. "Our law enforcement resources are seriously misaligned," Cotton said. "If you add up all the various kinds of property crimes in this country, everything from theft, to fraud, to burglary, bank-robbing, all of it, it costs the country $16 billion a year. But intellectual property crime runs to hundreds of billions [of dollars] a year." Cotton's comments come in Paul Sweeting's report on Hollywood's latest shenanigans on Capitol Hill.
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1voteModern capitalism rests on a foundation of property rights, agreements between parties to transfer those rights, and laws that enforce those rights and agreements. My impression is that property rights in virtual worlds are very simple. If I have an item in my Second Life inventory, from an inworld perspective I "own" it entirely. No one can steal it from me without hacking the database, I can use it and sell it as I please. (EU Lawyer Vincent Scheurer has noted that this ownership doesn't mean a whole lot after leaving the inworld sphere, but that is an entirely different issue.) About the only sophistication I see is that I can sell it to someone with slightly restricted rights--they can't copy and/or modify it.
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1voteThe Motion Picture Association of America, a trade organization for Hollywood’s largest film studios, sued two Internet sites, claiming they illegally post copyrighted material.
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1voteOn the day that most American webcasters fell silent in protest of scheduled performance royalties rate increases to be imposed by the US Copyright Royalty Board, the key sponsor of House legislation to override those fees finally got one minute of floor time, to speak on behalf of his bill.
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1vote"Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is asking Congress to make 'attempted' copyright infringement a federal crime. The text of the legislation as well as the official press-release is available online. Rep. Lamar Smith, a key House Republican, said he 'applauds' the idea, and his Democratic counterpart is probably on board too. In addition, the so-called Intellectual Property Protection Act of 2007 would create a new crime of life imprisonment for using pirated software in some circumstances, expand the DMCA with civil asset forfeiture, and authorize wiretaps in investigations of Americans who are 'attempting' to infringe copyrights.
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1voteAuthor published a book online under a creative commons license and is now upset that his work is being published for a profit by someone else.
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1voteOver the course of Jonathan Lethem's new indie rock novel, You Don't Love Me, we discover that none of Monster Eyes' songs come from one author. They're cobbled together out of pop culture, history, conversations & the ephemera of everyday life. One character tries to claim copyright on the songs after contributing some lyrics, and Lethem characterizes his actions as "manipulative" and "bullying."
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