Maria Pallante, the acting Register of Copyrights, testified at a Congressional hearing on Monday. That hearing was the first in a series on “Promoting Investment and Protecting Commerce Online”. If you want, you can watch the hearing here. I wouldn’t, though. The resolution is low on the video and it’s only available in the one [...]
Entries Tagged as 'copyright'
The Register of Copyrights wants to pursue pirate sites that aren’t breaking US laws
March 16th, 2011 · 3 Comments · opinion
Today’s Amazon exclusive on Einstein’s books should make you question the purpose of copyright
March 14th, 2011 · 6 Comments · Amazon, ebookstore news, opinion
Amazon announced today that they had scored another ebook exclusive. Open Road Media have just signed a contract with Amazon to provide 7 recently converted books written by Albert Einstein. The seven digital works that will be exclusive to the Kindle Store are: “Essays in Humanism”: An inspiring collection of the great thinker’s views on [...]
Tags:Amazon·axclusive·books·copyright·einstein·purpose·question·today
Copyright (humor)
February 23rd, 2011 · No Comments · humor
The Mimi and Eunice comic strip from today pretty much sums up how I feel about copyright. via Mimi and Eunice
Some thoughts about copyright
January 9th, 2011 · 29 Comments · opinion
I don’t cover it copyright, piracy, and related issues much because I have something of a radical view. But this time I’m making an exception. An idea has jelled in my mind that is so out in left field that I want to share it.
27C3 – Copyright Enforcement Vs. Freedoms
January 2nd, 2011 · 1 Comment · conferences & trade shows
I just came across this video on Youtube. It was shot last week at 27C3, a security and hacking convention hosted by the Chaos Computer Club. The speaker is Jérémie Zimmermann. This was an one hour session on the current state of copyright enforcement. It’s a general summary of the growing encroachments on personal freedoms, [...]
Tags:27c3·copyright·enforcement·freedoms
2 Free PDFs by Michael Giest
October 16th, 2010 · No Comments · free ebooks
I came across a new book by Michael Giest the other day. He’s a law professor and legal expert on Canadian copyright, and he has 2 books available for download as PDFs. The first was just published: This book represents an effort by some of Canada’s leading copyright experts to shift away from the sloganeering [...]
Tags:agenda·balanced·canadian·copyright·digital·extremism·free·pdf·radical
Copyright laws could cost us sound recording history
October 12th, 2010 · 1 Comment · opinion
I cam across an interesting report published last month on how current copyright laws are preventing the duplication of sound recordings. A lot of the recording are in a seriously decayed state. So what’s the point? Simple. There is something worse than the Google Books copyright infringement. CLIR website From the abstract:
We DON’T Need To Change Copyright Laws To Save Newspapers
August 19th, 2010 · No Comments · opinion
Interesting post on Business Insider yesterday. The author argues that the hot-news doctrine needs to be strengthened so aggregators can’t link to news articles: Using aggregators like Google and others, I can access essentially in real time the lead paragraphs of almost any story from the New York Times, the Washington Post, or indeed any [...]
Tags:change·copyright·laws·newspapers·save
BEA 2010: Copyright in Motion
May 25th, 2010 · No Comments · conferences & trade shows
About the presenter This session is hosted by Christopher Keneally, the Director of Business Development at the Copyright Clearance Center. The CCC is a world expert in copyright licensing solutions. My audio of the session (WMA) (posted with permission of the presenter) The session opened with a video which you can find here. The CCC [...]
Ways around (the Australian) e-book blockade: copyright issues
May 11th, 2010 · No Comments · ebookstore news
From the Australian: GRAEME SAMUEL, chairman of the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission, is one very peeved Australian citizen. A confessed gadget freak, he recently bought a Kindle e-book reader from Amazon.com to gain access to the latest titles at low prices — only to find, like many other Australians, that he couldn’t download many [...]
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