Posted on February 27th, 2009 by Derek Bambauer
Roy Blount Jr., writer and president of the Author’s Guild, has a jeremiad in the New York Times about Amazon’s Kindle, and its ability to read books aloud. Blount thinks that is a violation of authors’ rights. After giving some thought to his argument, I can only conclude that Blount should stick to sports, because [...]
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Filed under: Books, Copyright, Digital Media, Education & Copyright, Intermediaries, Internet & Society, Media, Microsoft, Software
Posted on February 25th, 2009 by Derek Bambauer
Next Wednesday, the Cyberspace Law and Policy Centre at the University of New South Wales will hold a workshop on Internet filtering and censorship in Australia. It’s got a terrific panel of experts from AusCERT, Brilliant Digital, Inspire, and the National Children’s and Youth Law Centre (among others), and also me. So, if you’re going [...]
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Filed under: Filtering, Intermediaries, international, Internet & Society, ISP, Law School, Scholarship
Posted on February 19th, 2009 by William McGeveran
Two epilogues to this week’s media boomlet about the Facebook terms of service. (To review: Facebook quietly changed its terms to remove a provision that used to say all Facebookâs rights to your content terminated if you deleted your account. The Consumerist Blog pointed it out under the headline “Facebook’s New Terms Of Service: ‘We [...]
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Filed under: Anonymity, Blogging, Copyright, Digital Media, Intermediaries, Internet & Society, Media, Peer Production, Privacy, Scholarship, Social Networking
Posted on February 18th, 2009 by William McGeveran
I blogged yesterday about the controversy surrounding Facebook’s new terms of service. This morning when I logged in to Facebook (I should note that I use it just about every day), there was a big banner message announcing that the company was returning to its old terms of service, pending their total redrafting. And the [...]
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Posted on February 18th, 2009 by Tim Armstrong
Hot on the heels of Bill’s new trademark piece, I’m happy to announce that my new article on the DMCA, which has been available in electronic form for quite a while, is now available in ink-and-pulp format as well, 74 Brook. L. Rev. 1 (2008). As of this writing, it hasn’t yet been posted on [...]
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Filed under: Berkman, Copyright, Court Decisions, Digital Media, Internet & Society, Scholarship
Posted on February 18th, 2009 by William McGeveran
Over the weekend the Consumerist blog started a bit of a cyberstorm when it pointed out that recent revisions to the Facebook terms of service removed a provision that used to say all Facebook’s rights to your content terminated if you deleted your account. I was interviewed about it today on NPR’s All Things Considered, [...]
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Filed under: Anonymity, Copyright, Digital Media, Intermediaries, Internet & Society, Media, Peer Production, Privacy, Scholarship, Social Networking, Virtual Worlds
Posted on February 13th, 2009 by William McGeveran
Former New York Times and Vanity Fair journalist David Margolick has a long and detailed article about the litigation against the AutoAdmit message board by two Yale Law School students who were targeted for harassment by the commenters there. (h/t Brian Leiter.) My views on this topic have changed somewhat as I have learned more [...]
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Posted on February 11th, 2009 by William McGeveran
[UPDATE: The agreement on the stimulus bill excludes the copyright filtering language. The proposal is not, of course, dead. So a letter to your representatives is still worthwhile, although now less urgent.] Through the good work of advocacy groups like Public Knowledge, efforts to add legal approval of copyright filtering to the economic stimulus bill [...]
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Filed under: Copyright, Digital Media, Filtering, First Amendment, Intermediaries, Internet & Society, ISP, Privacy, RIAA, Video
Posted on February 6th, 2009 by William McGeveran
There isn’t much reason to add to the excellent and engaging — but lengthy — debate on other blogs about a possible copyright infringement claim against the designer of a very popular poster of President Obama, which is based on a photo taken by an AP photographer. So I refer you to: Madisonian; Concurring Opinions; [...]
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Posted on February 6th, 2009 by Tim Armstrong
The movie studios sold fewer DVDs in 2008 than 2007 (which was itself a down year from the all-time sales peak of 2006). Why? Was it because of: The deepening recession in the United States throughout 2008, which caused consumers to cut back on discretionary spending on entertainment, as further confirmed by the decline in [...]
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Filed under: Copyright, Digital Media, Internet & Society, Media, Video