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Topic: Copyright and Fair Use Issues

  
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IFPI Appoints 'Anti-Piracy Czar' To Police High Seas of File-Sharing

BY Clay Dillow
Relevancy Score: 100

The recording industry, or at least the disjointed array of labels, trade groups, and intellectual property authorities that represent it, has had little success in curbing music piracy on the Web. In what is perhaps an admission that ...READ»

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Courting the Enemy


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Revenue from DVD sales have been helping film studios out of the hole left by poor box office receipts, except in China. Experts guess that up to 90% of DVD sales in China are pirated. Hoping to take a step forward, Hollywood signed ...READ»

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Not Everyone Loves MySpace

BY Lynne d Johnson
Relevancy Score: 83

At a time when most music artists are embracing MySpace as an extension of their marketing plan, Jay-Z wasn't too delighted that MySpace served its site members a sneak preview of his entire new album last week. Kingdom Come, the ...READ»

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Four Convicted in Pirate Bay Trial

BY Chris Dannen
Relevancy Score: 72

The music industry won a major victory against copyright infringement today with the conviction of the four men behind the Pirate Bay, a file-swapping service with over 20 million members. The men were sentenced in a Swedish court ...READ»

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RIAA To Stop Suing Individuals For Music Piracy

BY Kit Eaton
Relevancy Score: 72

'Tis the season traditionally associated with goodwill, but I'm not sure I could've predicted this piece of good news: the Recording Industry Association of America is going to stop suing individuals for music piracy. There are ...READ»

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YouTube's Newfound Clout

BY Peter Hoy
Relevancy Score: 70

With Google in its corner, YouTube rewrites the rules in the fight between old media and new media. READ»

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RIAA Still Suing Individuals, While E.U. Lightens Three Strikes Rule

BY Kit Eaton
Relevancy Score: 69

Piracy and copyright issues are still troubling the world, and recent news about the RIAA, and the European Union's copyright laws highlight this fact. The RIAA is reportedly still suing people when it said it wouldn't, and in ...READ»

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Torrent Site Fights Legal Action with 'Chewbacca Defense'

BY Chris Dannen
Relevancy Score: 69

Yesterday was the third installment of the Pirate Bay Trial in Stockholm, Sweden, that has pitted a popular file-sharing site against media companies claiming copyright infringement. Fresh off yesterday's minor victory, when half the ...READ»

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I Download Illegally -- and Harmlessly


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Good news for music downloaders: A recent study shows that Internet music piracy not only does NOT hurt legitimate CD sales, it may even boost sales of some types of music. That's good news for file swappers of all stripes. In a ...READ»

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Universal Sues Grouper and Bolt.com


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Vivendi-owned Universal Music Group filed a lawsuit Monday against video-sharing YouTube rival Websites Grouper.com and Bolt.com, accusing the sites of hosting pirated versions of Universal music videos. Universal maintains that ...READ»

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Using Your Neighbor's Intellectual Property

BY David Teten
Relevancy Score: 50

Recently, a relatively new member of the Ecademy business network posted an article from Scott Allen's About Entrepreneurs site in his blog, without a link and proper attribution. We don't believe that he was trying to claim ...READ»

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A Policy Town Meeting of One

BY Heath Row
Relevancy Score: 44

Wendy Seltzer is a staff attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, as well as a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. What follows is a partial transcript of her talk at WTF 2004, as well ...READ»

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The Powers or the People: GOP Rep. Tries to Delay FCC Vote on Who Owns the Web

BY Clay Dillow
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With an FCC vote on net neutrality rules looming on Thursday, it would be a shame if partisan politics didn't come into play. But who will stand up to declare regulations barring Internet service providers from picking and choosing ...READ»

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Acquisition of the Pirate Bay Collapses

BY Chris Dannen
Relevancy Score: 41

Hackers and Web nerds worldwide were distressed when torrent search engine The Pirate Bay announced last month that it had be sold into a legitimate channel of business. A company called Global Gaming Factory had a plan that would ...READ»

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Did Sinking Pirate Bay Cause More Piracy? And Does It Matter Anyway?

BY Kit Eaton
Relevancy Score: 40

Pro-copyright activists celebrated while file-sharers cried at rulings on the Pirate Bay's illegality, and the subsequent attempts to sink the site. But some new data suggests piracy sites tripled in the aftermath, which really ...READ»

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Blogger Could be Sued for Copyright Violations

BY Lynne d Johnson
Relevancy Score: 39

There's a story in the New York Daily News today, in which celebrity photographers are accusing hollywood gossip blog PerezHilton.com of using photos without proper credit. These photographers, and the agencies that represent them, ...READ»

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Open for Business

BY Heath Row
Relevancy Score: 37

The Open Business Guide is a Creative Commons project supported by George Soros' Open Society Institute that aims to collect a wide range of case studies and business strategies. The organizers hope to "share, mix and facilitate the ...READ»

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Google and Future of Information and Copyright

BY David Capece
Relevancy Score: 36

What is copyright worth? As stories of the decline in sales of newspapers continue to be reported, as well as the possible shift in newspapers going completely digital, is it really worth these companies to go after such seemingly insignificant details?READ»

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Copyright Is Alive and Well

BY Deborah Barron
Relevancy Score: 35

Yes, there is indeed such a thing as copyright infringement, meaning people should not be using other people's written works without express permission.READ»

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Should Mac OS X Be Open?

BY Chris Dannen
Relevancy Score: 35

There's a little computer company in Florida called Psystar making cheap Macintosh clones, that thinks that OS X should be open. But Apple [AAPL] thinks the company may be the puppet of a larger enemy. The Cupertino computer-maker ...READ»

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China Disables Google Features as Anti-Pornography Campaign Intensifies

BY Clay Dillow
Relevancy Score: 34

China is not relenting in its latest campaign against "vulgar" material on the Web. In its latest salvo against the free flow of information, the People's Republic has ordered Google to shut down its foreign Web site search and ...READ»

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Tone Deaf Chronicles: AP Knocks Shepard Fairey

BY Danielle Sacks
Relevancy Score: 34

Add another one to the annals of recent countercultural moments: Yesterday the Associated Press accused Shepard Fairey--the street artist who designed the most iconic user generated art to come out of the 2008 election--of copyright ...READ»

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MP3s Drive the Music Biz Into Multiple Personality Spin

BY Kit Eaton
Relevancy Score: 34

Ah, the music biz--source of fun for the masses, and craziness for businesspeople. We all know about the first part of that, but the second bit's been highlighted by some odd news this week, hinging on MP3s. The American Society of ...READ»

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Survey Shows MP3 Pirates Also Buy the Most MP3s, So Why All the Fuss?

BY Kit Eaton
Relevancy Score: 31

A survey conducted in Norway found that music consumers who regularly download illegally pirated music tracks are also the largest purchasers of legitimate digital music files, by a factor of 10 over non-pirates. So, you have to ...READ»

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Fixing the Music Model: Virgin Media, Universal to Launch Subscription Service in U.K.

BY Clay Dillow
Relevancy Score: 31

In another ambitious scheme to repair the music industry and discourage illegal downloading, Virgin Media inked a deal with Universal Music to offer an unlimited-download subscription service to customers in the U.K. by year's end. ...READ»