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12-12
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The O’Reilly Network’s Tim O’Reilly, in a recent editorial, expounds upon the notion that piracy is
progressive taxation,
in the context of the “evolution of online distribution”.
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This Boing Boing
permalink
points to the discussion Will compulsory licenses save P2P?, itself linked to a substantial pdf download
on the subject. Just below it is a piece entitled EFF comments on the Broadcast Flag, which also sends you
on to more pdf information.
12-13
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The Free Expression Policy Project, a “think tank on artistic and intellectual freedom”, features a
public policy report
entitled “‘The Progress of Science and Useful Arts’: Why Copyright Today Threatens Intellectual Freedom.”
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The current installment of I, Cringeley talks about format wars (with an interesting opening narrative
about the history of vinyl record formats), the ills of the music industry, and offers ideas about an
entirely new
kind of record business.
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A commentary by Lawrence Lessig called
“Racing Against Time”
looks at the arguments against copyright extension.
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Film-Philosophy is a web “journal-salon-portal” for us cinephiles. It is
extensive.
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Detrivore Steev Hise writes: “There’s now an mp3 of my talk about Detritus.net at the New
Gatekeepers conference last month, at Columbia University School of Journalism.” Get it
here.
12-14
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Slashdot reports on a new kind of CD that can
report your listening habits
back to the record company just by being played.
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As the consumer electronics industry begins to draw together around SmartRight’s
digital rights technology, eetimes.com wonders aloud if the
Copy protection logjam shows signs of breaking.
12-15
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A group of scientists is accusing scientific journals of
holding back progress
and instead propose establishing online peer review, and immediately depositing the published papers into the
public domain. [reg.req]
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If you bought a CD from a retail outlet between 1995 and 2000, you may be entitled to a (small) cash settlement —
you see, the recording industry has been convicted of
price fixing.
12-16
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The Register appropriately brings its trademark sarcasm to bear on a brief report concerning the
RIAA’s ludicrous spin of the facts: they apparently claimed that a recent piracy bust confiscated
“the equivalent of” 421 CD-R burners. Um, actually the
number was 156,
but it appears that some of them burned at 40x.
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Creative Commons has gone live with a customizable set of open source intellectual property licenses
that you can configure to fit your values. Require attribution? Allow commercial uses? Allow modification? Mix and
match. Or, you can just throw your work out into the
public domain.
12-17
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Sklyarov not guilty.
Verdict Seen As Blow to DMCA.
Digital Copyright: A Law Defanged?
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Here’s an interesting article entitled
“Heirs of the Enlightenment:
Copyright During the French Revolution and Information Revolution In Historical Perspective”
by David Walker.
12-18
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The site librarian.net offers
Five Technically Legal Signs for your Library,
satirically circumventing the rules of the increasingly intrusive security state.
12-19
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Clear as it seems to us that the federal government has abdicated its responsibility to look out for the interests of its
own citizens, instead pursuing its own independent agenda, local governments may serve as lingering strongholds still
serving the people: I refer to
this article
at wirednews.com, “Cities Say No to Federal Snooping”.
Here’s
nytimes.com’s take on the same subject [reg.req].
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Radio Free Software is an exploration at salon.com that looks at “turning all hardware problems into software
problems”, essentially making digital devices
capable of anything
it once took specialized devices to do.
12-20
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The Bush administration wants to monitor the internet more closely; you can read about their upcoming proposal
here
at nytimes.com [reg.req].
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The article “What do Intellectual Property Owners Want?”
looks at
the DMCA in the context of the Sklyarov case and
civil liberties in general.
12-21
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A piece at washingtonpost.com gives an overview of the difficulties in prosecuting post-Napster p2p,
in which the activity is decentralized, in
an article
that looks at the runaway success of Estonia-based Kazaa, which “turns the internet into a ‘global hard drive’”.
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Here’s a bit
on how the DMCA disallows fair use excerpting for DVD content in particular.
12-22
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An article at China’s People’s Daily (in English) suggests that the Chinese are
gradually being persuaded to reject piracy and
embrace copyright.
12-23
Joe Strummer 1952-2002
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Here’s
an interview
with Lawrence Lessig to get you inspired about the continuing copyright fight.
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The site of nmpa.org has a piece that,
not surprisingly, extols the virtues of
copyright protection
as being the “engine of free expression”. (In doing so, it suggests that Jefferson was in firm support of
copyright, when in fact he was demonstrably rather skeptical.)
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12-26
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Thing.net, an internet community for artists who like to push the internet’s boundaries, is in trouble, according
to many sources on the web, including
this article
at nytimes.com. And
here’s how
you can help them out.
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Europe no fan of the DMCA. News article covers
how euroskepticism has
dealt a blow
to media companies in the EU. And
here’s
the slashdot thread on this subject.
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Here’s an article at techknowledge that asks the pertinent question: “Must the Pop Music Industry Submit to
Compulsory Licensing?”
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In its typical breathless futurism, wirednews.com talks about an upcoming wireless utopia where you will
“Never pay
for phone, cable, or net access again.” Of course, they could be on to something.
12-27
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Businessweek.com has posted
an article
about how tech is threatening entrenched cultural power (we already knew this, right,
but the lights are only starting to go on in some circles): “Directors and cinematographers, who have built their reputations on
their skilled use of film, dread the idea of being marginalized by punks with digital camcorders.” Which is, of course, the only
thing that will keep culture interesting.
12-29
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Wireless utopia imminent? Once again, empowering (and eyebrow-raising) technology sweeps the earth. The
Wireless Commons Manifesto
sums up the aspirations of those wishing to connect with anyone anywhere without wires using a growing base of freely available
service providers.
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Nettime lets us know of the existence of
republicart.net,
a polyglot site specializing in “art sabotage — disrupting the currents of power” and Neoism.
12-30
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Abcnews.com
reports that
“The Supreme Court has temporarily intervened in a fight over DVD copying, and the justices could eventually
use the case to decide how easy it will be for people to post software on the Internet that helps others copy movies.”
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Meanwhile, a washingtonpost.com article observes that the copyright controversy and related ip issues
are among the year’s biggest
“fusses and flaps”.
12-31
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Year’s end reading. The report on
Copyright and Home Copying: Technology Challenges the Law.
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