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- Judge nixes fair use defense in Tennenbaum filesharing case
- Judge nixes fair use defense in Tennenbaum filesharing caseExpect this case to be appealedSince the judge basically said "NYAH! NYAH! NYAH! I don't want to hear it!"The fact is that there is a VERY easy justification for this under fair use: That the recording companies are ALREADY offering their music...
- Tags: Tennenbaum, Nyah
- Discussion threads 2009-07-27
- Supreme Court rebuffs Hollywood's attempt to block remote DVR services
- Supreme Court rebuffs Hollywood's attempt to block remote DVR servicesInteresting conceptI suppose there is little difference between a service that records what you ask it to then transmits it to a device of your choice and the ability to record locally, backup centrally and restore to a location of your...
- Tags: remote-DVR
- Discussion threads 2009-06-29
- Microsoft's Bing playing fast and loose with fair use?
- Microsoft's Bing playing fast and loose with fair use?Full Length?It only plays revolving 5-10 sec clips for me. It's my fav. feature.It is good and fast , too.Nice search tool ; some new some Google.CLE?Let's see 'em try it with CLE Continuing Legal Education videos and other presentations that...
- Tags: Corporate communications, fair use, Microsoft Bing, video, thumbnail, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-06-02
- TurnItIn's archiving of student papers is fair use, court says
- TurnItIn's archiving of student papers is fair use, court saysBad principles in action = subverted copyrightsFair use is a bit of a red herring, especially the so-called 'transformative' test.Basically, iParadigm is using complete works for its own use with the intent of improving their reputation and thus increase their future...
- Tags: Fair Use, archiving, iParadigms, Turnitin
- Discussion threads 2009-04-21
- EFF's von Lohmann: YouTube worse than DMCA for fair use
- EFF's von Lohmann: YouTube worse than DMCA for fair useyou tube?You Tube is so yesterday.They are blowing themselves up right along with the corporation rent seekers.RE: EFF's von Lohmann: YouTube worse than DMCA for fair use"A way for people to get this taken seriously is to boycott YouTube in favor...
- Tags: You-Tube, fair use, YouTube Inc., von Lohmann, Lohmann, DMCA, Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Discussion threads 2009-04-07
- McCain to YouTube: Respect fair use (at least for pols)
- McCain to YouTube: Respect fair use at least for polsSome are more equal than othersNo real shock here; YouTube's fundamental mistake is failing to distinguish between the Ruling Class and mere proles. After all, Congress exempted itself from many other laws and the lack of an exemption for John...
- Tags: YouTube Inc., John McCain, fair use
- Discussion threads 2008-10-15
- Hollywood to kids: Pay up for preschool movies
- Hollywood to kids: Pay up for preschool moviesThe States next?So when it does come to the States?Talk about trying to get blood from a turnip...This is nuts. Simply nuts. They bought your dvd..that should be the end of it. License per year to show it? They...
- Tags: Corporate communications, Consumer electronics, TVs, Advertising & Promotion, Fair Use, day care center, Pay Up, DVD, video, movie
- Discussion threads 2008-10-06
- Hole in Adobe software allows free movie downloads
- Hole in Adobe software allows free movie downloadsWho wrote this?!?Because whoever did needs to take a quick look at their article and proofread it.This article makes it sound like this vulnerability will mean certain death to content providers' business model and no one is going to pay for it unless...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, Digital music, Fair Use, Adobe Software, movie download, movie, Adobe Systems Inc., software
- Discussion threads 2008-09-29
- Jackson Browne and Copyright
- Jackson Browne and CopyrightRE: Jackson Browne and CopyrightPosted to the wrong place. Moved here: http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-11048-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=52418&messageID=988050&start=-9996?SO!WHO CARES WHOM YOU VOTE FOR!!!!!I agree. it should be the length drugs are givenDrugs take far more money and time to produce than movies and music. On top of that, they may...
- Tags: Jackson Browne, Fair Use
- Discussion threads 2008-09-26
- Dancing on E-voting's grave
- Dancing on E-voting's graveAgreed - but consider the slippery slopeBecause once you recognized the problem in kind, you ended up arguing (accurately, I think) about degree.Why client-server can't workBecause the expert has to say "yes" to the question in court - no matter how difficult or impractical it may actually...
- Tags: Fair Use, e-voting, client-server, Fairness Doctrine
- Discussion threads 2008-08-27
- 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
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