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Mon - January 15, 2007Privately, Hollywood admits DRM isn't about piracyIn a nutshell:
DRM's sole purpose is to maximize revenues
by minimizing your rights so that they can sell them back to
you.
Posted at 03:34 PM Read More Fri - January 12, 2007Senators aim to restrict Net, satellite radio recordingSatellite and Internet radio services would be
required to restrict listeners' ability to record and play back individual
songs, under new legislation introduced this week in the U.S.
Senate.
Posted at 03:31 PM Read More Wed - December 20, 2006Only 5 percent of all P2P downloads are mainstream moviesIncreased levels of broadband access,
powerful and speedy PCs equipped with DVD readers and writers, portable video
devices and next generation file sharing services are working in concert to make
downloading of video content easier. According to The NPD Group, a leading
consumer and retail information company, among U.S. households with members who
regularly use the Internet, 8 percent (six million households) downloaded at
least one digital video file (10MB or larger) from a P2P service for free in the
third quarter of 2006. Nearly 60 percent of video files downloaded from P2P
sites were adult-film content, while 20 percent was TV show content and 5
percent was mainstream movie content.
Posted at 01:41 PM Read More Thu - December 7, 2006RIAA Petitions Judges to Lower Artist RoyaltiesAggressively litigious group has claimed
to protect musicians in the past. Now believes musicians deserve less for
"innovative" music distribution.
Posted at 06:25 PM Read More Sun - September 24, 2006Microsoft Media Player shreds your rightsTHINK DRM WAS bad already? Think I was
joking when I said the plan was to start with barely tolerable incursions on
your rights, then turn the thumbscrews? Welcome to Windows Media Player 11, and
the rights get chipped away a lot more. Get used to the feeling, if you buy DRM
infected media, you will only have this happen with increasing
rapidity.
Posted at 10:00 AM Read More Fri - August 11, 2006RIAA Wants to Depose Dead Defendant's ChildrenJust when we think we've heard
it all....
Posted at 08:57 AM Read More Fri - July 14, 2006Gracenote, music publishers in lyrics dealU.S. digital entertainment company
Gracenote on Thursday said it obtained licenses to distribute lyrics as music
publishers mulled legal action against Web sites that provide them without
authorization.
Posted at 09:33 PM Read More Thu - June 15, 2006U.S. Joins Industry in Piracy WarThe U.S. government has joined
forces with the entertainment industry to stop the freewheeling global bazaar in
pirated movies and music, pressuring foreign governments to crack down or risk
incurring trade barriers.
Posted at 10:13 PM Read More Sun - June 4, 2006Death by DMCAA flood of legislation released by the passage of
the Digital Millennium Copyright Act threatens to drown whole classes of
consumer electronics
Posted at 10:54 PM Read More Mon - April 24, 2006Congress readies broad new digital copyright billFor the last few years, a coalition of
technology companies, academics and computer programmers has been trying to
persuade Congress to scale back the Digital Millennium Copyright
Act.
Posted at 10:12 PM Read More Thu - January 26, 2006Stevens to Push Ahead on Broadcast FlagSenate Commerce Committee Chairman Ted
Stevens (R-AK) has vowed to push
ahead with legislation that gives the FCC authority to re-implement
the broadcast flag, which would impose anti-copying technology on consumer
electronics manufacturers that make devices capable of receiving digital
broadcast signals. Draft legislation introduced by Senator Gordon Smith (R-OR)
would ratify rules adopted by the Commission in October 2003, rules subsequently
overturned in a court decision, and give the FCC authority to update those
rules.
Posted at 02:20 PM Read More Wed - January 25, 2006RIAA Says Merely Making Files Available Is IllegalRay Beckerman, a lawyer that's been
involved in several cases with the RIAA is reporting that the group
has argued in one of his cases that simply "making files available for
distribution" violates copyright laws.
Posted at 02:25 PM Read More Thu - November 3, 2005U.S. Patent Office Publishes the First Patent Application to Claim a Fictional StorylineThe U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
will publish history’s first “storyline patent” application
today from an application filed in November, 2003. Inventor Andrew Knight will
assert publication-based provisional patent rights against the entertainment
industry.
Posted at 09:24 AM Read More Mon - September 5, 2005The Public DomainWithin every culture, there is a public
domain—a lawyer-free zone, unregulated by the rules of copyright.
Throughout history, this part of culture has been vital to the spread and
development of creative work. It is the part that gets cultivated without the
permission of anyone
else.
This public domain has always lived alongside a private domain—the part of culture that is owned and regulated, that part whose use requires the permission of someone else. Through the market incentives it creates, the private domain has also produced extraordinary cultural wealth throughout the world. It is essential to how cultures develop. Posted at 11:45 AM Read More The Customer Is Always Wrong: A User's Guide to DRM in Online MusicThere is an increasing variety of options
for purchasing music online, but also a growing thicket of confusing usage
restrictions. You may be getting much less than the services
promise.
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