Copyright

[THE JEW (RaVeN)]

Oh, this one's a beauty. Guy creates a video. Viacom uses it without his permission. Guy puts up a video on Youtube showing that ("hey guys--VH1 used my footage!").

Viacom tells him he committed copyright infringement:

http://theknightshift.blogspot.com/2007 ... right.html

[THE JEW (RaVeN)]

Never forget:

http://techdirt.com/articles/20070829/155106.shtml

You're allowed fair use.

[THE JEW (RaVeN)]

Wow:

http://www.variety.com/article/VR111797 ... id=19&cs=1

Germans make it illegal to make CD or DVD copies even for personal use. Will they make the VCR illegal next? CD's and DVD's were deemed legal largely because of the precedent of the VCR.

Zee Deutsch = zee d00mb on this one, I think.

EDIT:

Just noticed this comment below:

The author does not report the facts. The law does not prohibit the copying of DVDs or CDs; it disallows the circumvention of anti-copying technologies like Macrovision et al., something that has been illegal in the US for a decade. The law specifically allows users to make backups of DVD and CD movies, software and music and other digital content for their own archives and to use/play on alternate devices (i.e., ripping movies to your hard drive to watch on a DVR or other device, ripping music to play on an ipod or other device, etc.). These specifically-named consumer rights are actually broader than those granted by law to American consumers. I am not sure what the author relied upon for his translation of the law, but I can assure you that it does nothing like what he suggests.

Mebbe something was lost in translation?

[THE JEW (RaVeN)]

German copyright law prevents fan film about Warhammer from being released:

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20 ... snafu.html

[THE JEW (RaVeN)]

Well, at least their not hiding the fact that they're lobbyists:

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=9735

"So Mr./Mrs. President.........what will you do to pad my wallet?"

[THE JEW (RaVeN)]

Sing songs in the Girl Scouts or choir for charity?

http://techdirt.com/articles/20071210/010636.shtml

Pay your copyright fees for those songs.

[THE JEW (RaVeN)]

The UK moves to potentially make ripping a CD legal:

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20 ... -last.html

Welcome to 1985?

[THE JEW (RaVeN)]

Geist to the rescue:

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20 ... -plan.html

Instead of just complaining, he outlines what we need to do (a rarity).

[THE JEW (RaVeN)]

Does the Business Software Alliance really do anything useful?

http://www.baselinemag.com/c/a/Enterpri ... l-Motives/

A look at software copyright.

[THE JEW (RaVeN)]

DVDJon does it again:

http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/08/02/19/2022246.shtml

Copying media just got interesting again.

[THE JEW (RaVeN)]

Technically more of a trademark piece, but I'll stick it here anyways:

http://www.boingboing.net/2008/03/28/wa ... radem.html

Walmart lost the smiley face trademark.

[Paragon]

I wonder if they'll continue to use it, or whether they'll think of another mascot.

[THE JEW (RaVeN)]

Looks like I might need a newsgroup login:

http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/2915/125/

3 strikes and you're banned from the internet in Canada?

[THE JEW (RaVeN)]

New bill passed in the US that, pretty much, sucks for them:

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=11762

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20 ... p-act.html

http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/for ... 1004512931

"The bill would also enable law enforcement agents to seize property from copyright infringers."

"[...]nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law;"

How in the holy hell does "you might be sharing music" qualify as due process of law?

[THE JEW (RaVeN)]

Why pirates are the defenders of democracy?

http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture ... 008-05.ars