Entries classified under copyright


Gallery of DRM-Related Antipixel Buttons and Badges
- If you must put badges on your site, make it one of these...
Blogs on today's SCOTUS rulings, Xeni on Grokster on NPR
- Initial coverage on MGM v. Grokster from BoingBoing. I'd like to hear what Cory has to say... and I'm sure we will shortly...
File-Sharing Networks Can Be Held Liable, Court Rules
- New York Times covers the MGM vs. Grokster decision
Grokster, StreamCast Lose
- "The Supreme Court ruled unanimously that developers of software violate federal copyright law when they provide computer users with the means to share music and movie files downloaded from the Internet"
Picker MobBlog
- Grokster MGM supreme court opinions are out. These guys are covering all the angles.
Microsoft releases under Creative Commons ShareAlike
- Holy shit Microsoft is copylefting stuff. What's going on?
Patent absurdity
- Stallman on the EU software patent mess.
Mark Cuban: Why Macrovision's customers are fools
- This horse should be dead by now.
Register of Copyrights Misunderstands Copyright
- Ed Felton digs into the Register of Copyrights. More informative than dig, really...
To links freeculture copyright ... on Tue 05/17/05 at 08:52 PM
Prison terms on tap for 'prerelease' pirates
- New law puts your ass in jail for 3 years for leaking a pre-release movie.
To links freeculture worry copyright ... on Wed 04/20/05 at 08:42 PM
Cornell Copyright Debate In Pieces
- The 3.5 hour copyright debate featuring all the players from the EFF, RIAA, MPAA, acedemia, etc. cut up into little pieces for ease of viewing.
To links copyright freeculture video ... on Wed 04/20/05 at 01:16 PM
Stupid (c) laws block me from publishing own work online
- Clay Shirky on how he doesn't have access to his own copyrighted works.
To links freeculture copyright ... on Fri 04/01/05 at 02:55 AM
MGM v. Grokster - Law and IT
- Panel discusses the Supreme Court ruling in the MGM vs. Grokster case.
Fred Von Lohmann (EFF) vs. Theodore Olson (RIAA/MPA) on CSPAN
- The RIAA/MPA lawyer is a complete tool, yo...
DRM-free iTunes interface "PyMusique" (written in Python)
- Looks like this let's you use iTMS like normal but the files are stripped of DRM on the way down or something. And it's written in python.
Word-of-mouth is why authors succeed
- Doctorow explains that the way to be successful in a distributed culture is to exploit long-tailisms like word of mouth...
A Note to the FCC - Call their bluff…
- Mark Cuban on why the FCC should tell CBS (and the MPAA) to go screw themselves.
Courts question anti-piracy rule
- "You crossed the line," Judge Harry Edwards told a FCC lawyer during arguments before a three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit."Selling televisions is not what the FCC is in the business of."
Broadcast Flag Oral Arguments
- This guy is live-blogging the broadcast flag hearings. Looks like the good guys did pretty good in oral arguments.
Who did MPAA rip off "You can click but you can't hide" from?
- Some dogfood for the MPAA. This kind of theft is obviously unacceptable. I'm sure they will be contacting Barlow and Joe Lewis' successors to work out a royalty program.
To links freeculture copyright mpaa ... on Fri 02/11/05 at 10:11 PM
Chicago's public sculpture can't be photographed by the public
- Oh horse shit!
To links freeculture copyright funny ... on Sun 02/06/05 at 10:41 PM
Cory Doctorow: "Copyright vs Community" (MOV, MPEG)
- Feature length lecture by Cory Doctorow on copyright, DRM, and other digital rights issues. CC share-alike licensed.
The Globe and Mail: How copyright could be killing culture
- Thanks Globe and Mail!
To links freeculture copyright ... on Tue 01/18/05 at 01:16 PM
Jailed for a Song
- "Congress isn't listening to the public, and we need to be loud if we want to be heard over the Hollywood lobbyists and record label flunkies."
To links freeculture copyright ... on Wed 01/12/05 at 10:28 AM
Commons-based Peer Production
- Ted Leung generalizes his involvement w/ free and open source software as being a simple contribution to the societal commons. Interesting viewpoint.
Comic Sans Anti Fucking Piracy
- A nice rant against the Movie Picture Association's recent inclusion of scary anti-piracy propoganda in DVD and cinema reels.

Is BoingBoing a Legal Honeypot?

It occurred to me today that Cory Doctorow et al. may be using BoingBoing as a legal honeypot: a sort of tractor beam for litigation the EFF may be interested in testing court...


Students Fight Copyright Hoarders
- Katie Dean following Free Culture activism on college campuses.. looks promising.
To links copyright freeculture ... on Thu 11/11/04 at 04:57 AM
Is Microsoft Ready to Assert IP Rights over the Internet?
- Microsoft is claiming some form of IP rights over "a total of 130 protocols which Microsoft is offering for license." The list includes TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, Bluetooth, FTP, HTTP, SSL, etc. Looks like a new FUD strategy.
One Internet, Many Copyright Laws
- New York Times article on copyright law differences across countries and how the internet complicates enforcement.
To links copyright freeculture web ... on Mon 11/08/04 at 07:35 AM