Tag: copyright
Searching For A Good Book Made Easier
MayorBob.
Posted to Legal on Fri Oct 31, 2008 at 01:23:54 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
At (US)$125 million, it may be the biggest book deal ever. Google blinked and settled two lawsuits which had represented the main road bumps in the path of its project to digitize just about every book ever printed. The settlement sets up the mechanism to ensure copyright holders get paid and allows Google's project to proceed. It's being hailed as "historic" by Google. At the same time, it leaves unanswered the question of whether the search giant had violated any the law in the first place.
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Who Watches The Watchmen? Why, Fox Studios, Of Course
MayorBob.
Posted to Business on Thu Aug 21, 2008 at 12:59:56 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
If you've been to your local cineplex recently, chances are you saw the trailer for The Watchmen, scheduled for release in early 2009. Scheduled for release, but looking more and more like it might never see the inside of a movie house. Why? Because Fox Studios believes it has Warner Brothers outfoxed.
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Steal This Webpage
thefadd.
Posted to Music on Mon Jun 30, 2008 at 06:21:06 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
Kid Rock has been called many things over his career but champion of the people was probably not one of them. Now, however, he's taken a page out of the Abbie Hoffman book of self promotion by encouraging his fans to "Steal Everything," even downloads of his own tunes, since he's "rich enough."
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NFL Blitzes Super Bowl Parties At Churches
1fastdog.
Posted to Media on Sat Feb 02, 2008 at 06:28:02 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
David -vs- Goliath: round 2, in which Goliath clubs David with his Copyright Stick© and David may or may not fight back using Goliath's own weapon against him.
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Another Pyramid Scheme
MayorBob.
Posted to Business on Fri Dec 28, 2007 at 08:19:10 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
It's almost unthinkable for anyone making a trip to Egypt to pass on the opportunity to visit one or more of that country's unique antiquities - the pyramids. These ancient monuments are distinctly Egyptian and, it will cost you big bucks to visit them. Soon, it may end up costing people who wish to copy them as the Egyptian government plans on copyrighting the pyramid.
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Meet the new Lars
pO157.
Posted to Music on Sat Sep 15, 2007 at 12:31:42 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
Lars Ulrich is perhaps one of the more despised individuals in the seedy underbelly of the internet due to his efforts to take down music 'pirates'. While the Napster many of us remember is long gone, Prince is stepping up to halt what he claims is music and video copyright infringement on one of the Web's most popular free services, YouTube.
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Godwin's Law vs Intellectual Property Law
MayorBob.
Posted to Etcetera on Sun Jul 22, 2007 at 07:29:05 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
You can't go anywhere in Germany to find a freshly printed copy of what is "arguably the most controversial book of the 20th century." This is because Adolf Hitler's prison memoir Mein Kampf hasn't been printed in Germany for over 60 years. The state of Bavaria holds the copyright to the book and has since 1945. But even copyrights run out and the clock is ticking toward 2015 (or 70 years past when the author passed away). At that point every neo-Nazi with a printing press can start pumping out his own version of the work. At least one scholar would like to be allowed to publish a scholarly version of the book now - to get a head start on the neo-Nazis, so to speak.
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Attack of the copies
rEvolution inAction.
Posted to Media on Thu Feb 15, 2007 at 01:25:33 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
Three of the most used web services are being torn apart by the legal ramifications of copyright. YouTube (owned by Google), GoogleNews, and MySpace have all seen the writing on the wall (or been handed a judgment) regarding the unauthorized usage of copyrighted materials by their sites. YouTube and MySpace have the same problem, their users are posting copyrighted videos and both have started to act on it. GoogleNews has dug its own grave after losing a recent court case in Belgium.
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