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New Danger Mouse CD released as a blank CD-R

An unnamed dispute with EMI means the actual CD won't be released. EMI is, of course, the label that owns the copyright on The White Album and sued to keep The Grey Album from being released.

music copyright dumb tumbl
may 2009 by jimray

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The Kindle's text-to-speech features is illegal according to the Authors Guild

Just when you thought asinine applications of stupid copyright laws couldn't get any dumber.

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february 2009 by jimray

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Why you won't see MLK's most famous speech on the news

One of the most powerful pieces of American history is locked away because of copyright.

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NBC and Microsoft want to lock down your Zune so you can only play "allowed" content

"Apple refused to cooperate with NBC on building filters into its iPod player to remove pirated movies and videos. Microsoft, by contrast, will accept NBC’s pricing scheme and will work with it to try to develop a copyright “cop” to be installed on

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may 2008 by jimray

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Good Copy Bad Copy

"A documentary about the current state of copyright and culture"

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A rebuttal to Mark Helprin's inane "copyright should live forever" op-ed

Lessig, when asked to rebut, suggested instead that supporters of sensible copyright should do the job better.

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Gonzales wants to criminalize attempted copyright infringement

Fuck a duck, this is ridiculous. Do these asshats not have any sense of irony? This is the definition of fascism based on corporate/government collusion.

absurd dumb congress legal piracy privacy riaa copyright tumbl
may 2007 by jimray

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Obama wants debates in the public domain or under creative commons license

Sharp thinking, that guy

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MoveOn.org, EFF get Viacom to admit that they were overly litigious

Quite possibly the one useful thing MoveOn.org has actually accomplished

via:revgeorge copyright youtube eff legal tumbl
april 2007 by jimray

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Apple unveils higher quality DRM-Free music

256kbps AAC files sans-DRM for $1.29 a track. This might get me to buy music from the iTMS again.

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april 2007 by jimray

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EFF sues Viacom for overzealous takedown notice

Apparently, someone put up a parody of the Colbert Report and it got lumped in to some massive DMCA request and now Viacom is getting taken to court.

legal copyright youtube tumbl
march 2007 by jimray

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YouTube shuts down Gawker account, Gawker says they did nothing wrong

Gawker was bookending copyrighted videos with their own promotions, says they never got complaints from the copyright holders, though

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february 2007 by jimray

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Children of Men uses Creative Commons sample

Attribution noted in the credits for "male loud scream." Kinda awesome.

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Wired News: MPAA Kills Anti-Pretexting Bill

"The MPAA has a tremendous amount of clout and they told legislators, 'We need to pose as someone other than who we are to stop illegal downloading,' Goldberg said."

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The shady one-man corporation that's destroying hip-hop

"Sample trolls" are the new evil incarnate

music copyright dumb legal
november 2006 by jimray

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Some intimate details on the Google YouTube Deal

Google placated the major content owners fora bout $50 million a piece, which also bought a six month head start. Google needs to drop the "do no evil" thing, if only because all the cranky bloggers keep throwing it in their face when the act like a corpo

google video youtube via:waxy business copyright
october 2006 by jimray

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All Headline News - Boy Scouts Can Now Earn Anti-Piracy Badges - October 27, 2006

As both an Eagle Scout and someone who believes that the entertainment industry is WAY out of control on copyright issues, this makes me incredibly, incredibly sad

boyscouts piracy copyright dumb
october 2006 by jimray

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Book sales get a lift from Google scan plan

Hey, waddaya know, Google's book scanning actually increases book sales. Who would've predicted that, besides everyone on the goddamn planet.

via:mathowie google books copyright
october 2006 by jimray

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QTFairUse6 strips FairPlay DRM from iTunes 6 ITMS files

I can finally go back to buying music from iTunes again

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Download the classics

Google makes out of copyright books available. How is this different from Project Gutenburg?

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august 2006 by jimray

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Okkervil River's Will Sheff on file sharing

Really nicely put

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DRM debate debunked

IPac takes a look at the WSJ debate over DRM

drm media copyright law
june 2006 by jimray

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WSJ.com - 'DRM' Protects Downloads, But Does It Stifle Innovation?

Of course it does! Which Ms. Seltzer proves quite adeptly.

via:daringfireball copyright politics technology law
june 2006 by jimray

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Microsoft and Creative Commons Release Tool for Copyright Licensing: The organizations announce availability of Microsoft Office add-in that enables easy access to Creative Commons copyright licenses.

This is awesome!

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Letter to Warner Brothers: A Night in Casablanca -- Chilling Effects Clearinghouse

According to Wikipedia, this was a hoax perpetuated by Groucho -- Warner never actually sued -- but it's a great read all the same

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Lawrence Lessig to hold a virtual lecture in Second Life

I've been meaning to sign up a Second Life account for months, seems like as good a reason as any

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january 2006 by jimray

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NPR : Copyright Laws Severely Limit Availability of Music

"Over 70 percent of American music recorded before 1965 is not legally available in the United States."

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Mossberg on DRM

One problem with Walt's grocery store analogy - unlike record labels, there aren't just four grocery stores in the world who work in conjunction with one another to fix prices and generally screw over customers at every opportunity.

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The point of Google Print

"Imagine sitting at your computer and, in less than a second, searching the full text of every book ever written."

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october 2005 by jimray

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The Hidden Cost of Documentaries

New York Times on the ridiculousness of having to get clearance for every snippet of copyrighted work in a documentary

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BitTorrent: The Great Disrupter

Fortune magazine article on Bram Cohen and Bit Torrent

bittorrent via:waxy copyright
october 2005 by jimray

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Jib Jab sues someone for using 9 seconds of their Flash animation

There's some bitter, beautiful irony here, I know it

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Cory Doctorow nails the idiocy of the Author's Guild suing Google

"In other words, the AG believes that Google shouldn't be allowed to opt writers in to its Google Print program, but they believe that they should be able to opt writers into their costly, suicidal lawsuit against Google."

via:daringfireball copyright google dumb law
september 2005 by jimray

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Official Google Blog: Google Print and the Authors Guild

Even though the Authors Guild is totally stupid about this, I'm glad their suing, because they're going to lose and hopefully Google, with all their billions, will help make some sense of the totally fucked up state of copyright in this country

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september 2005 by jimray

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EFF: The Customer Is Always Wrong: A User's Guide to DRM in Online Music

Why I don't buy DRM music any more

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Boing Boing: Anti-RIAA lawyer: no limit on how many people we can defend

As soon as people realize that this is just scare tacticing by the RIAA and they can't possibly sue EVERYONE. Awesome.

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Dick Tracy saves the movie biz $5 billion a year

This strip is copyrighted by Tribune Media Services, one of the largest media conglomerates in the country. I'm sure that's just a coincidence.

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The idiocy of copyright

The indie documentary Mad Hot Ballroom spent 45% of their budget clearing crappy music -- including thousands of dollars for a fucking ringtone! These people are crooks -- I feel like I should hit Limewire right now and download as much music as possible

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Anarchist Cookbook author offers a retraction

Became an Anglican, no longer believes in violence as a means to political ends, but since he handed copyright over to the publisher, he has no say in the matter any more

anarchy politics copyright dumb via:mathowie
june 2005 by jimray

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Unhappy Birthday

Well done

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Gapers Block parses Chicago's ridiculous Millennium Park copyright rules

This is so dumb [via boingboing]

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LokiTorrents 0wnz0red by MPAA, hands over server logs

No honor amongst thieves

bittorrent copyright burnhollywoodburn
february 2005 by jimray

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BTbot - BitTorrent Search Engine

Better than googling "filetype:torrent"

bittorrent media copyright p2p search
february 2005 by jimray

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Vip-torrents - Your Torrents Site.

Oh, why not

bittorrent media copyright p2p
february 2005 by jimray

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The Copyrighting of Public Space

You can't take pictures in Millenium Park cuz some asshat retains the copyright? The fuck? [via boingboing]

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MSN Search has ridiculous copyright rules for their RSS format

Well, it was a cool idea while it lasted

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Defense contractors shaking down the model airplane industry

Asshats [via boingboing]

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Eyes on the Screen torrent mirror

Downhill Battle's site was lawyer-grammed away [via boingboing]

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RespectCopyrights.org

MPAA disinformation site on copyright, including software to scan your machine for P2P apps and "illegal" material. Also, what a craptastic flash site [via /.]

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january 2005 by jimray

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Some civil rights groups want "Eyes on the Prize" off P2P

You know, there's some brutal fucking irony to a civil rights group halting the publication of this. Fire up those bittorrent clients while you still can!

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january 2005 by jimray

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Eyes on the Screen

"Eyes on the Prize" has been locked up in copyright hell for years - help set it free [via waxy]

civilrights media copyright history
january 2005 by jimray

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Sony: DRM killed our iPod

Oh, the humanity!

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january 2005 by jimray

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Truth and Bill Gates

Dan Gillmor smacks down billg