Archive for the 'Copyright Law' Category

Jonathan Zittrain: The Future of the Internet & How to Stop It

Friday, April 18th, 2008

With a title like that, I can only think what Jonathan Zittrain wrote in his book must be grim because otherwise, we wouldn’t want to stop it.
One of the first things Zittrain said after taking the mic is that he used to title things poorly. I think that was in reference to something else, not […]

Lawrence Lessig Speaks in Ames Courtroom at Harvard, 4/4, 5 p

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008

Gah. Here’s yet another talk I’ve known about for a while, meant to blog earlier, and forgot to do it. My apologies. I’m not doing so well this year, am I?
Lawrence Lessig speaks in the Ames Courtroom in Austin Hall at Harvard Law School on Friday, April 4, at 5 pm. It will be webcast, […]

Is Copyright Dead?

Sunday, March 23rd, 2008

“Copyright is a very big issue in the legal world today, but in the business world, when you talk to consumers about protecting copyrights, it’s a dead issue. It’s gone. If you have a business model based on copyright, forget it,” opined Gerry Faulhaber, a Wharton School of Business professor at the University of Pennsylvania […]

Popular Web 2.0 Video Altered Because of Copyright Claim

Thursday, December 20th, 2007

Finding this note on Wendy Seltzer’s weblog about a video about a Web 2.0 bubble getting removed from YouTube because of a copyright claim is like a one-two punch for the scratchpad. Someone showed me the video at work a while ago and I’ve been meaning to share it with you. (Google, Ask, nor I […]

Law of the Blog: a Blogger’s guide to copyright, defamation, tradmark…

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

Nicholas Carroll has published a book called Law of the Blog: a blogger’s guide to copyright, defamation, trademarks and other online legal issues:
http://www.law-of-the-blog.com/index.html
Link via What I Learned Today:
http://www.web2learning.net/
Posted by Rich

David Weinberger on Copyright, 11/14, 6:30 p

Saturday, November 10th, 2007

David Weinberger facilitates the next Web of Ideas discussion on Wednesday, November 14, at 6:30 pm* at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, 2nd Floor Conference Room, 23 Everett Street, Cambridge, MA. It’s about how to rebuild copyright for the digital age.
“‘Designing Copyright from the Ground Up’: Suppose we had the chance to start […]

Computers + Public Domain Material = Reduced Load for Students

Monday, September 3rd, 2007

With a combination of the Internet and public domain material, some students have less to carry to class. Yay to fewer back problems!

Music Industry Toleration of MP3 Blogs

Saturday, July 28th, 2007

National Public Radio’s Weekend Edition has an update on the tension between the music industry and certain music fan weblogs. Some record labels tolerate group music fan sites. A blogger at one of the sites recently received a threat of legal action against a special MP3 he posted from a company some labels use to […]

Site Pulled for Posting Copyrighted Photos

Sunday, June 24th, 2007

Here’s another real example of why everyone should use caution when posting material without proper attribution and/or permission. According to CNN, the celebrity gossip site PerezHilton.com is the target of several lawsuits by various companies who found their images of celebrities posted without permission on the site. At least one company complained to the site’s […]

Buying Music Because I Heard It on the Internet First

Monday, April 23rd, 2007

Y’all are probably familiar with the debates between the record companies, people who distribute music on the Internet, artists who, um, borrow melodies and pieces from other artists (sometimes called sampling), copyright law, and a bunch of other related issues. Here’s my story and I’m stickin’ to it.
I (finally) bought a copy of Jay-Z’s The […]


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