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Dmca
5 days ago
Boing Boing:
Michael Fricklas, Viacom's General Counsel, gave a lecture to a Yale Law class in which he confessed that suing people for copyright infringement felt "like terrorism." He says that this was bad strategy on the entertainment (Read More)
Ars Technica:
Apple has won a landmark victory against Mac clone maker Psystar, though it doesn't spell doom for the rest of the hackintosh industry just yet. US District Judge William Alsup ru (Read More)
Boing Boing:
Rebecca from the Electronic Frontier Foundation sez, "More news about the Yes Men and the Chamber of Commerce. BoingBoing reported on the lawsuit the Chamber filed over the activists' political criticism of the Chamber's sta (Read More)
Ars Technica:
That warm flood of outrage through the veins is addicting—but it also runs the danger of being addictive, and of being too easy. As the news broke this week about the "Internet pr (Read More)
Boing Boing:
We'll never know what was originally intended for this Techdirt tee, but we can see the aftermath of the takedown notice it attracted!
DMCA Takedown T-shirt
(Thanks, Dennis!)
. (Read More)
News Network:
Intellectual Property And Copyright
readwriteweb:
According to once-secret, now-leaked sections of the new, plurilateral Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, global Internet users and ISPs might be in for a world of hurt in the near future.A U.S.-drafted chapter on Internet (Read More)
Boing Boing:
Oscar sez, "I just finished a 48-minute radio documentary for the Australian public broadcaster, the ABC, about remix culture, piracy and copyright. It's got brain-melting copyright education programs aimed at kids, commenta (Read More)
Ars Technica:
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is a big fan of naming and shaming. When it launched its patent-busting project a few years back, the activist group put up a "Wanted by EFF mar (Read More)
Boing Boing:
Hugh from the Electronic Frontier Foundation sez, "Today, EFF is launching our new 'Takedown Hall of Shame' project, which collects the worst and most shameful examples of bogus DMCA takedowns. We've got everything from the r (Read More)
Ars Technica:
Texas Instruments has been making programmable calculators for longer than most companies have been making computers, and the company's current line of calculators uses a chip—the (Read More)
Boing Boing:
EFF has come to the rescue of three Texas Instruments graphing calculator who have written their own software for their devices and received a threat of a copyright lawsuit from TI for their trouble. Heck of a job, TI. TI's c (Read More)
Concurring Opinions:
Howto: Fight anorexia and associated body image disorders, plus combat DMCA abuse — all in one handy blog post. (In which Cory Doctorow eviscerates the weak C&D letter asking BoingBoing’s ISP to remove a bizarrely photoshopp (Read More)
News Network:
Cyberlaw News
ReadWriteWeb:
Early this morning PicApp announced a partnership with Automattic and integration with WordPress. More than 7.5 million publishers on WordPress' hosted service will gain access to 20 million stock images from services like Ge (Read More)
Boing Boing:
Last month, Xeni blogged about the photoshop disaster that is this Ralph Lauren advertisement, in which a model's proportions appear to have been altered to give her an impossibly skinny body ("Dude, her head's bigger than h (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Thanks to a DMCA complaint filed with Google, the company's search index now doesn't feature the Pirate Bay's homepage anymore and the Pirate Bay's PageRank has been dropped to zero. Now, when users search for 'Pirate Bay,' a (Read More)
Boing Boing:
FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski addressed The Brookings Institution in DC yesterday and laid down the Commission's vision of the future of networking and telecommunications, and it's good stuff: Net neutrality is in, sleazy m (Read More)
Ars Technica:
The law firm of Camara & Sibley has decided to take on document-sharing website Scribd in a big way, seeking class action status against the site in a lawsuit filed Friday in a Texas fede (Read More)
Sep 05, 2009
Boing Boing:
The Canadian government's copyright consultation has received over 4,000 submissions from Canadians (it's not too late to send yours!). Of these, the overwhelming majority are in favour of more liberal copyright, against exte (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
When 20-year-old college student Firas Alkhateeb posted a picture of President Obama decked out in Joker facepaint to photo-sharing website Flickr, little did he know that he was going to be the catalyst for a major policy ch (Read More)
Boing Boing:
It'S A Lie. Turns Out What Wikipedia Has Done Is Instituted A System Whereby A Trusted Editor Can Flag A Bio Of A Living Person As Being Va
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