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If the RIAA Wins, You Really Lose!
"There is no legal difference between putting a song in my P2P Network shared folder or in my public FTP folder or in my "documents" folder."
Oink founder: We're just like Google
"If Google directed someone to a site they can illegally download music they are doing the same as what I have been accused of. I am not making any Oink users break the law. People don’t pay to use the site.�
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DEFENDING THE PIG - OINK CROAKS
"Oink didn’t offer solutions; it highlighted the problems of over-priced, over-controlled music elsewhere. Oink was an online paradise for music fans." - DJ Rupture
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Four reasons why the RIAA won a jury verdict of $220,000
"The Recording Industry Association of American got a chance on Thursday to show everyone just how heavy and intimidating the legal club of copyright law can be."
Did "Saturday Night Live" Rip Off Aphex Twin?
"NBC didn't actually need permission to use the song for "ephemeral use," and won't, until they plan to air the show again . . . the video remains yanked from all official NBC sites until, presumably, some clearance agreement is made."
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"This false notion that ringtones are something in and of themselves is an anachronism, an artifact dating back to the time when mobile phones existed in their own ecosystem, wholly separate from the PC or the Internet."
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Lawsuit: Music Publishers v. YouTube Doesn't Solve the Problem
"If people don’t know what rights they need to obtain and if there's no easy way to obtain them even if they do know, exactly what do rights-holders expect?"
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"a documentary about the current state of copyright and culture"
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"Faced with shrinking profits, record labels are touting a new approach"
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Prince Points the Way to a Brighter Future for Music
Prince gave away his new CD with Sunday's Daily Mail. "Part of the problem, according to retailers, is that Prince's move helped solidify a growing perception on the part of consumers that music is free."
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Court decision strengthens aggregators
"This is yet another court decision in favor of the disruptive innovations of Media 2.0, and it strengthens the business model of all aggregators that provide a significant public service by placing snippets of copyrighted material in one place to enable
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Unsafe Harbors for Viacom and Google
"As content proliferates, the ability to help audiences connect with content that matters the most to them will become the real sweet spot of the media industry."
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Second Life Will Save Copyright
"This is exciting, because it turns Second Life into a laboratory for trying out alternatives to prevailing real world copyright rules."
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Is the SecondLife copybot a sign of things to come?
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Reactionary Second Lifers block technological progress
"Congrats, residents of Second Life, in your own high-tech bleeding-edge way you’ve just proven yourself as reactionary as the RIAA or MPAA."
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Some intimate details on the Google YouTube Deal
Mark Cuban shares 'details' on the YouTube deal from an anonymous industry insider.
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"I have found so many easy ways to get any type of media instantly that I decided I would share this with everyone else."
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Book Sales Get a Lift from Google Scan Plan
"Publishers are starting to report an uptick in sales from Google Inc.'s online program that lets readers peek inside books, two years after the launch of its controversial plan to digitally scan everything in print."
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Why Mark Cuban is Way Off Base with YouTube
"Unlike the Napster days in which there was no evidence that this type of large scale ‘piracy’ actually helped distribution, today [in YouTube] the signs are everywhere."
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Video explains the world's most important 6-sec drum loop
"This fascinating, brilliant 20-minute video narrates the history of the "Amen Break," a six-second drum sample from the b-side of a chart-topping single from 1969."
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Interview with the Pirate Party
A new Swedish political party with three goals: "Reform copyright, abolish patents, and strengthen the right to privacy."
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Cosby's Lawyers See No Flattery in an Imitation
The New York Times covers Andy Baio (waxy.org) being told to get rid of the Cosby parodies he's hosting.
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Lawrence Lessig considers the impact of intellectual property laws on the creativity of remixing and sharing those remixes on the web.
The boom in the intellectual property market will not reap rewards for us all
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when media becomes culture: rethinking copyright issues
"The RIAA (and other such organizations) have been so successful at getting their media distributed that they have become culture. In turn, this means that they are the building blocks in which communication occurs."
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Searching for a fake word in the New Oxford American Dictionary
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How did Mad Hot Ballroom survive the copyright cartel?
"Answer: by limiting music that played in classrooms, haggling over clearance fees, and cutting out a scene."
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Why Analog Property Rights Are Wrong For a Digital World: DRM vs Plasticity
"Since most DRM is based on the fundamentally flawed notions of analog property rights discussed above, it can (in the long run) never work in a digital world."
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Supreme Court's unsound decision
Monday's ruling against Grokster will do nothing to stop peer-to-peer file sharing -- but it may well stifle technology innovation.
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# Likenesses of cartoon characters, many made in garages and sold by small vendors, prompt legal action by entertainment giants.
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Digital photos can look great, but some labs won't print those that appear too professional
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The Cash Machine Is Blue: why Wilco is Worldchanging
WorldChanging: "Good business comes from a great personal ethic, and I think Wilco exemplify the true artist's philosophy in this crazy, confusing world."
Wired: "Miller stopped by the Wired News office for a chat about his book, his new album and his thoughts on sampling culture and copyright."
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I am an information glutton, and so are you.
"Information is the most potent weapon in the fight against oppression and inequality wherever it occurs."
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FT.com: "If we don’t look at the evidence and we ignore the role of the public domain in fostering innovation, how can we possibly hope to make good policy?"
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A Few Notes from the Grokster Argument
A great summary of the MGM v. Grokster case
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Ten reasons why Mark Cuban is today's Long Tail hero
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Illegal file-sharers under attack
Economist: The entertainment industry has taken its battle against illegal downloading to America’s Supreme Court. But attacking the technology behind file-sharing could stifle innovation without tackling the industry’s long-term problems
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Let the truth be told…MGM vs Grokster
Mark Cuban is funding the Grokster defense. "Its about our ability to use future innovations to compete vs their ability to use the courts to shut down our ability to compete. its that simple."
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EFF is listing devices that would be deemed illegal if MGM wins over Grokster
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Suddenly on the Internet: A flood of unreleased bootlegs sung by a goddess. What gives?
The Collaborative Effort to Edit: CODE
"Professor Lessig is using this wiki to open the editing process to all, to draw upon the creativity and knowledge of the community. This is an online, collaborative book update; a first of its kind."
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Artists Break With Industry on File Sharing
Some Musicians Say Web Services Can Be Valuable Means of Distribution
Attempting to stop all those illegal performances of Happy Birthday