Obama Poster Causes Copyright Flapdoodle

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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Slipping DVD Sales and Oversimplifying Complex Phenomena

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

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