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Entries in Copyright (35)
Higher Education Act Reauthorization Requires Colleges to Subsidize Copyright Anti-Piracy Efforts
If you have recently written a check to pay college tuition for the coming semester, you will be interested to know that, if Congress has its way, part of the money you spend on your child’s college education will now be going to subsidize college-based copyright enforcement and anti-piracy efforts.
Dennis D. McDonald
in Digital Rights Management (DRM), Copyright, Disaster Response, Emergency, Corruption, Education
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William Patry Says Goodbye to His Personal Copyright Blog
Copyright law has abandoned its reason for being: to encourage learning and the creation of new works. Instead, its principal functions now are to preserve existing failed business models, to suppress new business models and technologies, and to obtain, if possible, enormous windfall profits from activity that not only causes no harm, but which is beneficial to copyright owners. Like Humpty-Dumpty, the copyright law we used to know can never be put back together again: multilateral and trade agreements have ensured that, and quite deliberately.
Dennis D. McDonald
in Digital Rights Management (DRM), Copyright, Blogging, Corruption
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Who Is Better At Making Government Data Useful?
Craig Thomler’s Make government data freely available neatly lays out, from an Australian’s perspective, a discussion of how the public can benefit if government agencies make raw data available for access by individuals and organizations who then analyze or present that data in a useful way. These points are from Thomler’s conclusions:
Dennis D. McDonald
in Copyright, Governance, Publishing, Policy, Regulation, eGovernment
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How Different Are Your Blog's Copyright Interests from the Associated Press?
Given my longstanding interest in copyright, I’ve been following the AP anti-fair-use story with some interest (e.g., see this by Jason Kintzler, or this by Julian Baldwin; there’s also an interesting discussion thread ongoing at the Linkedin Bloggers group on Yahoo! Groups).
Dennis D. McDonald
in Copyright, Google, Publishing, Business Models, RSS, Advertising, Facebook, Squarespace, Fair Use, Internet
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What the Heck is "Social DRM"?
When I first heard the term “social DRM” in the context of e-book anti-piracy efforts — the link is to the RSS feed of my del.icio.us bookmarks tagged “socialDRM” — I thought it referred somehow to group peer pressure not to copy files without permission.
Dennis D. McDonald
in Digital Rights Management (DRM), Copyright, Piracy, Social Networking, Publishing, Social Media, E-book, Books
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Social Data Portability, Privacy, and DRM
When Bob Weber published his post-CES DRM 3.0 Has Arrived he made the point that, while DRM for music may be dying, the entertainment industry’s interest in Digital Rights Management is still quite strong. This got me to wondering whether this “next generation DRM” might have some relevance to current interest in social network portability.
Dennis D. McDonald
in Privacy, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Copyright, Industry Analysis, Social Networking, Standards, Social Network Portability, Personal Data Ownership, OpenSocial
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Recommended: Command Line's Lessig Interview
Back in June of this year when I first learned that Lawrence Lessig had shifted gears I expressed some skepticism about the ultimate success of his decision to focus more on the underlying corrupting influences that are endemic to our legal and political processes.
Dennis D. McDonald
in Copyright, Podcast, Lessig, Corruption
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Bill Would Force Colleges to be Copyright Cops or Lose Federal Aid
According to Eric Bangeman at Arts Technica, a New bill would punish colleges and students who don’t become copyright cops.
Dennis D. McDonald
in Digital Rights Management (DRM), Copyright, Piracy, Social Networking, Social Media, Disaster Response, Homeland Security, Emergency, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Corruption
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Fair Use Antics
I'm listening to another one of Command Line's podcasts, this time Rant: Is Fair Use a Right? (Command Line produces one of my five favorite podcasts.) Despite the logical nature of Command Line's thesis (he believes that copyright Fair Use is a "right," not just a legal defense) I'm still skeptical about being able to unambiguously explain to people what their "fair use" rights actually are.
Dennis D. McDonald
in Digital Rights Management (DRM), Copyright, Podcast, Publishing, Business Models, Social Media, DMCA, Fair Use
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The CCIA's "Fair Use in the U.S. Economy" Report
The Computer and Communication Industry Association (CCIA) has published a research report titled Fair Use in the US Economy: Economic Contribution of Industries Relying on Fair Use. This is how Fair Use is described in relation to copyright law:
Dennis D. McDonald
in Copyright, Fair Use, CCIA
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