Posted on April 23rd, 2008 by William McGeveran
The Minnesota State House has passed the “Hannah Montana bill”, 119-12. The proposed legislation, which I discussed last month, bans software that jumps the queue at Ticketmaster and other sites that sell event tickets. The state Senate passed a slightly different version of the bill easrlier this month, and now must consider the […]
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Filed under: Internet & Society, Minnesota, badware, Digital Media, Intermediaries, Software, Music
Posted on March 4th, 2008 by Tim Armstrong
That’s the question I’ve been asking myself (and, occasionally, others) for most of the last year. (As some of you know, I’ve spent quite a bit of that time working on a new paper about the DMCA, and I’m not jaded enough yet not to feel a twinge of regret at the prospect […]
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Filed under: RIAA, Internet & Society, Court Decisions, Digital Media, Copyright, Media, Scholarship, Music
Posted on October 25th, 2007 by William McGeveran
I just finished Jeffrey Toobin’s popular new book, The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court. Overall I’d give it a positive review. Toobin has some interesting insights into the Big Picture of the successes and failures of conservatives under the Rehnquist Court (and the beginning of the Roberts Court), lots […]
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Filed under: RIAA, Court Decisions, Copyright, Intermediaries, Books, Music
Posted on October 4th, 2007 by William McGeveran
[UPDATE: As expected, the jury found liability for copyright infringement and awarded the recording industry $222,000. That is considerably less than the $3.6 million in damages theoretically available, but still represents a win for the RIAA. It will be interesting to see if this discourages other defendants from fighting through to trial.]
The […]
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Filed under: Internet & Society, Minnesota, Court Decisions, civil procedure, RIAA, Digital Media, Media, Intermediaries, Copyright, Music
Posted on August 29th, 2007 by William McGeveran
There has been extensive commentary and derision around the legal blogosphere about a preposterous corporate song commissioned by the law firm of Nixon Peabody, and then the firm’s subsequent efforts to threaten those who mocked it with IP saber-rattling. David Lat first posted the song, and here he summarizes the ensuing flapdoodle. A […]
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Filed under: Video, Internet & Society, Digital Media, Copyright, Music, Uncategorized
Posted on August 17th, 2007 by William McGeveran
Earlier this summer I spoke at the Institute for Computer Policy and Law, a workshop for professionals responsible for IT infrastructure in higher education. They were all abuzz about a campaign this spring and summer by the RIAA to target colleges and universities and demand that they take more actions to curb illegal downloading […]
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Filed under: Digital Media, RIAA, Internet & Society, Education & Copyright, Filtering, Law School, Intermediaries, Music
Posted on July 10th, 2007 by William McGeveran
Given my interest in Info/law and in British politics, I cannot ignore this post from Bill Patry.
David Cameron, the Leader of Britain’s Tory Party, delivered a speech to the annual meeting of the UK recording industry trade group last week in which he committed his party to a 20-year extension of the copyright term for […]
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Filed under: Digital Media, RIAA, Copyright, Voting, Media, Music
Posted on June 5th, 2007 by William McGeveran
If you are an Info/Law type who is not a regular Doonesbury reader, check out yesterday’s strip. Former music legend Jimmy Thudpucker is back in the studio on Mark’s radio show talking about the future of music in a file-sharing world. (As always with Doonesbury, the story arc will continue through Saturday.) And as […]
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Filed under: Digital Media, RIAA, Internet & Society, Copyright, Intermediaries, Media, Law School, Music
Posted on April 19th, 2007 by Derek Bambauer
The Washington Post reports that despite a decline in compact disc revenue of 13% last year, the RIAA is upbeat. Huh? Isn’t this the same RIAA that’s always portraying copyright-infringing downloads by college students as the death knell of the music industry? And how does this oddly happy vibe fit with the deal between Apple […]
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Filed under: RIAA, Internet & Society, Digital Media, Copyright, Intermediaries, Music
Posted on March 30th, 2007 by Tim Armstrong
So far, 2007 has been a year filled with an unusual amount of good copyright news for consumers and creators. First came the news (well covered by Bill, here and here) that, after years of resistance, E&O insurers were finally willing to cover documentary films that had not cleared rights to clips from earlier […]
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Filed under: Internet & Society, Copyright, Media, Music