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 […]
Several articles report the lawsuit Viacom, which owns many cable television stations, brought against YouTube, an online site where people can post and watch videos—many of which are posted by contributors who want to freely share their work. This case could have ramifacations for many other Web sites where users can post a variety of […]
Monday’s Wall Street Journal reports that there’s new company will begin testing a system to scan the billions of pages on the Web for clients’ audio, video, images and text, potentially making it easier for owners to request that Web sites take content down or provide payment for its use.
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Over on PressThink, the weblog of New York University journalism professor Jay Rosen, Lisa Williams, whom I know through blog group, shares some really exciting news: 96 news sites owned by GateHouse Media are now sharing content via Creative Commons licenses. Not only is this news really exciting for copyright law, but it should have […]
The ResourceShelf shares some thoughts on copyright and YouTube. What is the role of sites like these that post community media in informing their users about copyright law? How can they prevent violators from posting non-compliant material?
"Digital music purchasing has not yet fundamentally changed the way in which digital music customers buy music."
From Slashdot to the BBC to Jupiter Research, I traced a trail of information to learn about a report saying iPod owners are more likely to get their music from CDs–either CDs they already own or CDs they purchase–than […]
Today on Newslib, an international discussion list for news librarians, Victoria McCargar let us know a document she and Peter Johnson drafted regarding the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and news libraries is now available online as a .pdf.
Just last night, some friends and I were talking about how it’s acceptable to use Kleenex to mean tissues in a generic sense, but using an L-word to refer to an e-mail discussion list often results in a cease-and-desist letter or a similar action from that company because they want to protect their trademark. This […]
beSpacific includes this Wall Street Journal article about a ruling in a copyright case against Google last week. A federal judge decided Google’s activities related to Snodgrass Publishing Group do not violate any copyright laws. The article, which is available for free, summarizes a few other recent cases concerning Google and copyright.
It seems a little odd to me to simply file my notes of Cory Doctorow’s talks in the Copyright Law department, but that’s really the best fit for his words, which spanned digital rights management (DRM), new technologies, and the music industry.
One of the reasons I appreciate going to two of his talks is because […]