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- An answer to AP's anti-blog policy: quote freely but carry adtribution link
- An answer to AP's anti-blog policy: quote freely but carry adtribution linkAssaults on Fair Use benefit no oneThe AP is hurting themselves as well as their consumers by this short-sighted action. While use of an entire article or other substantial body of work is copyright infringement, there is an important...
- Tags: adtribution, fair use, news article
- Discussion threads 2008-06-21
- Georgia State sued over electronic "course packs"
- Georgia State sued over electronic "course packs"The Dodo AwaitsThe average yearly cost of books for students at my school equals to or exceeds the cost of an adequate notebook computer. I have no tears for textbook publishers or that industry as a whole. God speed and good luck to Georgia...
- Tags: Notebooks, Georgia State
- Discussion threads 2008-04-17
- Whispers will not kill fair use
- Whispers will not kill fair useDon't discount the power of briberyThe amount of money and influence poured into Congressional coffers by the media cartel is huge. Add to that the fact that both elected officials and bureaucrats suffer from "star worship" as the general populace. Just look at the Hilary...
- Tags: Government, GWB, fair use, international law, epitome, indifference
- Discussion threads 2008-04-10
- Turn your PC into the ultimate DVD changer
- Turn your PC into the ultimate DVD changere: Turn your PC into the ultimate DVD changerFrom the linked article:[i]NOTE: DVD Shrink can break the copy protection on most DVDs without issue, but if you're having a problem, try running previously mentioned DVD43, which promises to remove copy protection from virtually...
- Tags: Consumer electronics, Fair Use, DVD, ultimate DVD-changer, copy protection, DVD-changer, DMCA, PC
- Discussion threads 2008-03-25
- Blu-ray BD copy protection defeated?
- Blu-ray BD copy protection defeated?Expected to be unbreakable?By whom? All the decryption keys are in the playback device, it's just a matter of probing for them.I've yet to read of Blu-Ray hurting the consumer (except for all the usual 'regions' garbage) in an obvious way e.g. key rejection causing...
- Tags: copy protection
- Discussion threads 2007-10-30
- Don't sweat copyrights, it's good for the economy
- Don't sweat copyrights, it's good for the economyDon't sweat copyrightsDid I miss something here guys, or are you intentionally trying to be vague and ambiguous?Many of these same CCIA members depend on adequate copyright protection for their own survival. And I bet if they are asked, rather than lumped together...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), digital-rights management, Computer & Communications Industry Association, Fair Use
- Discussion threads 2007-09-13
- Fair use is not a consumer right
- Fair use is not a consumer rightProfits are not a corporate right!The same can be said of profits but the lawyers don't like to eventhink about acknowledging this!USA and copyrightsThe article fails in not mentioning what the founding fathers of the USA thought. These issues of copyright are the same...
- Tags: Litigation, fair use, consumer right, Fair Use, affirmative defense
- Discussion threads 2007-09-06
- Blogger contends posting silly leaked law firm song is fair use
- Blogger contends posting silly leaked law firm song is fair useDixon Peabody lawyers are being lame and stupid, but......I really don't see how the republishing/broadcasting/whatever of this song in full could be possibly be considered fair use. That'd be like broadcasting a full-length really embarrassingly bad movie in MST3K...
- Tags: Blogger, fair use
- Discussion threads 2007-08-23
- It's Fair Use Day - good luck celebrating it
- Today is Fair Use Day, notes Ars Technica. Not quite recognized as a national holiday, Fair Use Day was crated by Eric Clifford three years ago to raise awareness of the raidly shifting copyright landscape. This year the day is reconized by the Pirate Party of the Unites States, a...
- Tags: Congress
- Blog posts 2007-07-11
- Fair Use
- Fair Usepirate bay isn't breaking any lawsif some person gets on my computer and starts downloading illegal music, am I to blame? probably for negligence, but not for copyright violation. i can post a link to someone's torrent file of a ripped, illegal copy of a blockbuster hit...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), digital-rights management, Fair Use, movie, digital copy
- Discussion threads 2007-07-11
- Sun mulls Apache's "Dear Jonathan" letter
- Sun mulls Apache's "Dear Jonathan" letterBuwahahahahahaYou have 30 days to answer us or, or, or by gawd we'll throw another public tantrum...WHAT???[Without a license for the suite, Apache could not even call their version "Java". ]When Sun decided to GPL Java it relinquished all rights to enforce any patents, copyrights...
- Tags: Programming languages, Fair Use, Java, open source, Sun Microsystems Inc., Apache Software Foundation
- Discussion threads 2007-04-11
- A proposal for a new kind of "fair use"
- A proposal for a new kind of "fair use"If it is truley fair use then there is no licenseA license is permission to engage in a protected right of a copyright holder- most notably to copy or create derivative works.Fair Use on the other hand, the full name of the...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Fair Use, copyright holder, fair use
- Discussion threads 2007-04-06
- DRM doesn't fix the problem
- DRM doesn't fix the problemWhere's Ed Meyers when we need him?C'mon Ed, set the author straight on fair use! I personally think he's mixing up Fair Use laws with the AHRA.Short mermories - And Yes the AHRA does thisThe AHRA was specifically designed and passed to allow home users...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, digital-rights management, Fair Use, AHRA, fair use
- Discussion threads 2007-02-09
- Google's $2 million Stanford 'fair use' underwriting
- Google's $2 million Stanford 'fair use' underwritingUmmmUmmm, you do realize that the vast majority of sites not only don't exclude Google and others via robots.txt, but many of them specifically allow Google to index portions of their site via this method, don't you?Missing the pointWow. You really miss the...
- Tags: Google Inc., fair use, Stanford
- Discussion threads 2006-11-30
- YouTube Muppet parody mayhem
- I love the writing in the first two paragraphs of Richard Rushfield's L.A. Times story, Muppets Gone Wild:SWEEPING through the debris field that makes up today's YouTube catalog, a few emerging schools of webcamography are evident: confessional videos by teenage girls, stolen footage of Jon Stewart and Asian game shows,...
- Tags: INTERNET, Muppets, Parody, Fair Use, YouTube Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-10-30
- Microsoft bows to the Belgians
- Microsoft bows to the BelgiansWhere is the Damage?There is no damage to anyone with what Google is doing. However, Microsoft damages its customers by not following Google. The reason the URL link is important is that this is not only the web method of citation but also it is the...
- Tags: Fair Dealing, Belgian, Microsoft Corp., fair use, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2006-10-20
- EFF: Obscure bill could turn cache into cash for music biz
- Since earlier this summer, the Electronic Frontier Foundation is putting out the equivalent of a red alert about some language that it says has been snuck into an obscure copyright bill -- language that the EFF says could smash Internet fair use. According to the warning:The entertainment industry has...
- Tags: Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Blog posts 2006-09-12
- Fair use, Xbox hacking, and how far will Linux users go to get a cheap PC?
- Fair use, Xbox hacking, and how far will Linux users go to get a cheap PC?You need to be better informedWow, some real doozies in your article.---The thing with fair use is that there's a huge gray area between legitimate fair use (say, copying a CD for use in a...
- Tags: Game players, X-Box, Microsoft Xbox, fair use, Microsoft Corp., Linux, IS IT, business model, hacking
- Discussion threads 2006-06-22
- Some must-see Net neutrality videos
- Some must-see Net neutrality videosAsk a Ninja about Net NeutralityThere's a really funny video on net neutrality at www.askaninja.com.Why are we promoting Moveon.org propaganda?Net neutrality is a very complex issue. It is a case of the big telcos against the big internet companies like Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft. ...
- Tags: Microsoft Office, Fair Use, Net Neutrality, Add SIRA, reproduction, fair use, video
- Discussion threads 2006-06-06
- Return of the broadcast flag - and demise of fair use doctrine?
- Legislation is being floated by the entertainment industry that would require the broadcast flag and would put an end to future fair use of copyright material, says EFF attorney Fred von Lohmann. EFF is chiefly concerned with the fair use aspect:According to [Hollywood], here's all tomorrow's innovators should be allowed...
- Tags: fair use, historic use
- Blog posts 2006-01-23
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