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Andy Baio wound up paying $32,500 to settle a copyright dispute over the "Kind of Bloop" cover art. It was a pixel art homage to the photograph on the cover of "Kind of Blue."

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Mind Booster Noori: Portugal's biggest political party wants to turn Creative Commons Licenses illegal

New copyright laws in Portugal preclude the use of Creative Commons licenses.

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The Economist: Cyberlawyer 2.0

This story about Stanford law professor Larry Lessig attempts to explain his shift from a largely technological emphasis to his focus on corruption.

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PC World: The Most Anti-Tech Organizations in America

This article lists "those groups whose interests always seem to run counter to those of technology companies and consumers."

telecom publicpolicy intellectualproperty copyright
december 2007 by McChris

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O'Reilly: Anarchy, Integrity, and the Digital Marketplace

"Pick the Right Protection for Your Intellectual Property"

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When Pigs Fly: The Death of Oink, the Birth of Dissent, and a Brief History of Record Industry Suicide.

This impassioned article argues that the record industry alienated fans in copyright wars and deserves to go out of business.

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Valleywag says Google is using takedown notices as opportunities for licensing deals.

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Pitchfork: Wu-Tang Clear First Legal Beatles Sample!!
hip-hop copyright sampling
october 2007 by McChris

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Leaked Media Defender e-mails reveal secret government project
bittorrent surveillance copyright p2p lawenforcement
september 2007 by McChris

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LATimes: The Internet sure loves its outlaws

This profile of bittorrent evangelists The Pirate Bay mentions how Sweden's Pirate Party rivals its Green Party in size.

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Sony To Launch YouTube Competitor in Japan

The new service, available only in Japan, will allow users to put contributions under Creative-Commons licenses, while watching out for copyright infringement.

TVontheWeb copyright CreativeCommons Web2.0 YouTube
april 2007 by McChris

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Study: Students Don't Understand Copyright Rules

Well, I think any study would show that "Students Don't Understand X."

education copyright intellectualproperty
april 2007 by McChris

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Harpers: The Ecstasy of Influence

Jonathan Lethem explains copyright issues in terms we liberal-arts flakes can understand.

intellectualproperty copyright CreativeCommons
february 2007 by McChris

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Banksy: Shop

Street artist Banksy offers hi-res images of his work for free download. I think I may have an 8x10 made of the surveillance camera piece.

streetart copyright art awesome
january 2007 by McChris

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University of Texas Libraries Partner with Google to Digitize Books

"In the course of the multi-year project, Google will digitize at least one million volumes from the University of Texas Libraries' collections, working from selection lists prepared by the Libraries."

utexas google library copyright
january 2007 by McChris

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Codev2:Lawrence Lessig

The second edition of Lessig's first book was developed on a wiki, and released today. Since I know it well, I'll have to poke around and look for new chapters or a changelog.

law copyright CreativeCommons freeculture wiki
december 2006 by McChris

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DMCA exemptions issued

Among them include the ability for media studies instructors to lawfully circumvent DRM for compiling clip tapes.

DRM education film copyright DVD
november 2006 by McChris

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Mark Cuban: Some intimate details on the Google YouTube Deal

Mark Cuban posts an anonymous email about an interesting arrangement in the YouTube acquisition. Google set aside $500 million of the $1.65 billion purchase price to deal with IP litigation.

YouTube TVontheWeb copyright google business
november 2006 by McChris

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An Unreasonable Man: YouTube Removes Colbert Report and Daily Show Videos

Comedy Central shoots itself in the foot.

TVontheWeb cable copyright YouTube
october 2006 by McChris

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Blog Maverick: I still think Google is crazy

Mark Cuban was skeptical about the rumors that Google would buy YouTube. Now that the acquisition has been announced, he's stil wondering if intellectual property issues will bring the project down.

TVontheWeb Web2.0 google copyright intellectualproperty business
october 2006 by McChris

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Cultural Studies: Special Issue on Intellectual Property

The contents of this journal issue are available for free download online, thanks to the publisher.

intellectualproperty academic copyright freeculture
october 2006 by McChris

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Lawrence Lessig: AutoWeek: On come on

Larry Lessig discusses how a commercial magazine used a photo from Flickr that was shared under a non-commercial, attribution Creative Commons license without acknowledging the photographer.

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The UT System Crash Course in Copyright

The design of this site is straight-up 1996 (I think it's generated from PowerPoint slides) but this could be a useful resource for teaching or getting other grad students on the same page.

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Technology Review: Capturing Online Video Pirates

A company called Guba says it has developed a technology that would enable video-sharing sites like YouTube to compare uploaded videos to a database of copyrighted works and prevent unauthorized distribution. The article doesn't say if the "fingerprints"

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Macrovision Trying To Plug the Analog Hole with a Suit

Mediageek discusses Macrovision's lawsuit against Sima Products, which sells signal-correction "bricks" that allow, among other things, media studies instructors to make nice looking clip tapes.

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Can Creative Commons and Commercial Aggregators learn to play nice?

Ethan Zuckerman raises some important questions about enforcing Creative Commons licenses, particularly the Share-Alike licenses.

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Little Brother Is Watching

I think I missed this the first time around, but plans are in the works to have Hong Kong scouting-like groups to scour message boards for copyright infringement.

scouting China surveillance copyright intellectualproperty
july 2006 by McChris

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Wired News: MySpace Kills Internet Tube Song
power myspace copyright politics stupid
july 2006 by McChris

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FT.com - James Boyle: Constitutional circumvention

The esteemed law professor sounds off on the hazards of the proposed WIPO broadcast treaty.

intellectualproperty copyright law globalization scary
june 2006 by McChris

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Secret Encoder Ring

This is an interesting interview with the administrator of a BitTorrent TV tracker.

TV copyright file-sharing bittorrent
may 2006 by McChris

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Orphan Works Bill Introduced

Lamar Smith introduced this? Regardless, creating a roadmap for moving abandoned works into the public domain is a step in the right direction.

politics law intellectualproperty copyright
may 2006 by McChris

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When Copying Is Okay: The "Fair Use" Rule

A guide to fair-use for the layperson.

useful intellectualproperty copyright
may 2006 by McChris

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Spacegrinder! - MPAA training police dogs to sniff out DVDs

via /. - the copyright cops are really out of control.

lawenforcement DVD film intellectualproperty copyright surveillance
may 2006 by McChris

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Technology Review: Taking Media in Our Own Hands
academic copyright citizensmedia production video pxl-2000
may 2006 by McChris

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Art, copyright and the beauty of inaccessibility

Ethan Zuckerman's account of visiting Walter de Maria's "Lightning Field" installation in rural New Mexico. The Dia Foundation, which manages the site, was criticized on bOINGbOING for restricting photography of the work.

photography freeculture copyright art
april 2006 by McChris

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AlterNet: Roomba Cockfight

Analee Newitz discusses hacking Roombas for "cockfighting." I'm not sure if the last graf is pure humor or if she did want to make the point that many companies do regard hardware hacking as dangerous.

hack power humor copyright
april 2006 by McChris

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BBC NEWS | Technology | The rise of clip culture online

article from a media studies professor arguing that teh Internets are fostering a "clip culture," where short clips of video are central.

video file-sharing copyright
march 2006 by McChris

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Indie Band Survival Guide

Advice from an indie band about dealing with copyright issues and business in general. The section on file-sharing is particularly interesting.

music indie business freeculture copyright file-sharing
march 2006 by McChris

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Lawrence Lessig: openDRM

Lessig on Sun Microsystem's effort to create an open DRM standard that would allow for fair-use. Like Lessig, I'm not crazy about this idea, but if we have to live with DRM, we should at least have an open standard.

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How to right the copyright wrongs

Nice BBC column describing the issues at stake with computers and copyright. I'd give this to people new to the debate.

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Intellectual Property Run Amok

List of copyright malefactors throughout the ages.

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Broadcast Treaty has potential to grant unwarranted "protections"

Article decribing draconian provisions of WIPO broadcast treaty. The proposed treaty would give broadcasters control over content for 50 years after first broadcast.

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Big Content would like to outlaw things no one has even thought of yet

Will "customary historic use" replace fair use in new IP legislation?

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Wired 14.02: The Rootkit of All Evil

Bruce Sterling's take on the Sony/BMG rootkit debacle.

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Jon Udell: The wrath of the Mac zealots
copyright academic podcasting freeculture
february 2006 by McChris

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Gipper, the Talking Points Duck
copyright parody freeculture politics comics
january 2006 by McChris

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Internet Archive: Details: Loscil - Stases - [one023]

album uploaded to archive.org by Loscil

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The Problem with Webcasting
copyright publicpolicy politics
january 2006 by McChris

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Stay Free! Daily: Whatever happened to Martin Luther King?

articles about MLK from Stay Free magazine.

MLK copyright
january 2006 by McChris

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infoAnarchy Wiki

Wiki with a radical approach to copyright and free culture issues.

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Get out of MySpace, bloggers rage at Murdoch

MySpace is banning videos from other hosting services. While I'm hardly sympathetic to News Corp., the article hardly mentions the copyright issues involved.

myspace yasns copyright
january 2006 by McChris

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