The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) Previously, I summarized how a business should triage nastygrams by systematically identifying the key elements of the complaint, investigating relevant issues of fact, and then analyzing a response.
Most nastygrams stem from either allegations of copyright infringement, or content that you are providing services to. Accordingly, once you have triaged the nastygram you need to apply relevant laws. Most importantly, you need to understand two crucially important intellectual property laws: the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and the Communications Decency Act, which this article will address. If, at its base, the nastygram alleges copyright infringement, you should think first of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), the key law in this area.
Enacted in 1998, the DMCA contains the most important safe harbor for claims of facilitating copyright infringement. CopyR/privacy in conflict with FoE/press.
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Sherlock Holmes Klinger v Conan Doylevestate. Copyright law : the year in review. Anonymous revives Operation Payback, wages war on "copywrong" The hacker collective Anonymous has once again cranked up Operation Payback, its attack on pro-copyright trade groups, this time taking down the website for Broadcast Music International (BMI).
More attacks are on the way.
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CopyrightX. Distributor's Bankruptcy. Aaron Swartz Suicide. Pinterest CopyR issue. Hollywood's benefits. Are tweets protected by copyright (under US law)? Consumers given more copyright freedom. Google search now gets 2.5 million copyright removal requests a week, up from 250,000 in May. The Troubling Growth of High-Tech Regulation, Lobbying, and Rent-Seeking. I caught this tidbit today in a Washington Post article about Julius Genachowski’s tenure as Federal Communications Commission chairman: He wound up presiding over a crucial period in which the powerful companies of Silicon Valley turned into Washington power players.
Lobbying the FCC has become a major economic franchise. Each day, hundreds of dark-suited lawyers crowd the antiseptic, midcentury-modern agency building. A good summary of. Pirate Bay Users Hide IP-Addresses to Counter Copyright Enforcement, Research Finds. The collaboration between The Pirate Bay and the Cybernorms research group at Sweden’s Lund University has resulted in their first academic publication.
The researchers surveyed 75,000 people from all over the world and found that close to 70 percent of all Pirate Bay users are interested in hiding their IP-addresses, or hiding it already. According to the researchers the high interest in anonymizing services among file-sharers is a direct response to anti-piracy initiatives.
April last year The Pirate Bay renamed itself to The Research Bay to conduct the largest ever survey among file-sharers. The Copyright Alliance Blog » Blog Archive » AN INVITATION TO FREE INTERNET ADVOCATES TO JOIN US. Without free speech, copyright protection is meaningless.
The two rights are critical to artists and combined have proven to be a powerful force for social justice around the world. Where do Music Collections Come From? In our last installment, we noted that there’s a sharp generational divide (in the US and Germany) in attitudes toward copying and file sharing, with those under 30 showing more acceptance of these practices in general and much more acceptance of sharing within loosely-defined communities of ‘friends.’
Not rocket science, right? But how does that translate into actual behavior? Here are average music file collections, divided by age group: A few things to note about this chart.
Hachette veut imposer à ses auteurs d'imposer des DRM partout. L'activiste et auteur de romans de science-fiction Cory Doctorow a publié lundi une tribune dans Publishers Weekly, dans laquelle il révèle avoir pris connaissance d'une lettre signée de la PDG de Hachette UK, Ursula Mackenzie, à l'un des ses auteurs.
Ce dernier a signé un contrat d'édition avec Hachette pour la publication d'une dizaine de livres dans certains pays, et avec Tor Books (une filiale de MacMillan) pour d'autres. Or Hachette reproche à l'auteur d'avoir laissé Tor Books publier la version électronique des livres sans DRM, alors que la filiale de Lagardère utilise des DRM pour (croit-il, espère-t-il) se protéger du piratage. Hachette "a acquis auprès de vous et de bonne foi les droits de publication exclusive dans nos territoires", rappelle la missive, qui accuse Tor Books de "rentre difficile la protection appropriée des droits qui nous ont été confiés".
Observations from the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR/24) World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) A recent meeting of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) on issues of copyright and related rights brought to the fore the underlying tensions between the Internet as a technology that transcends borders and the current intellectual property regime set up in the 19th Century.
Discussions on limitations and exceptions and on the protection of broadcasting have been taking place for many years within WIPO and Member States have been seeking ways to address these issues, responding, at the same time, to the challenges presented by both national and international copyright regimes, digital technologies and the Internet. On 16-25 July 2012, WIPO held its its 24th Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) meeting. Much of the 10-day discussions made references to the Internet and digital technologies, thus making questions of who and in what capacity should participate in such discussions relevant.
A bit of background information first though. New French Government Not Impressed By Hadopi; Wants To Cut Its Funding. NASA's Mars Rover Crashed Into a DMCA Takedown. NASA’s livestream coverage of the Curiosity rover’s landing on Mars was practically as flawless as the landing itself, a refreshing alternative to all that troubled Olympics coverage.
The broadcast – full of suspense, lucky peanut-eating, and ecstatic congratulations – was slow and hard to reach at times, but NASA servers never failed. Along with burnishing its online publicity credentials, NASA had prepared for a global audience of millions But NASA couldn’t prepare for everything. An hour or so after Curiosity’s 1.31 a.m.
EST landing in Gale Crater, I noticed that the space agency’s main YouTube channel had posted a 13-minute excerpt of the stream. COPIE PRIVEE (France) EDRi’s response to the consultation on private copying levies. Copyright board to charge for music at weddings, parades - Arts & Entertainment. Money can't buy love — but if you want some great tunes playing at your wedding, it's going to cost you.
The Copyright Board of Canada has certified new tariffs that apply to recorded music used at live events including conventions, karaoke bars, ice shows, fairs and, yes, weddings. The fees will be collected by a not-for-profit called Re:Sound. The new tariffs apply to recorded music used at live events, including conventions, karaoke bars, weddings and parades with floats playing music. (Damian Dovarganes/Associated Press) While the Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada (otherwise known as SOCAN) already collects money from many of these events for the songwriters, Re:Sound will represent the record labels and performers who contributed to the music.
Music Week - Digital revenues overtake physical as Q1 recorded music market returns to growth. International Copyright Law: 2014 in Review. Copyright law remains just as broken in 2014 as it was in 2013, but some countries have been tinkering around the edges of copyright this year in an attempt to address its flaws. The United Kingdom stands out as a country where the need for copyright reform has been comprehensively studied over the past decade, and where a number of key recommendations of the most recent study—for once—were not shelved, but actually found their way into the law books.
Google names names on copyright takedowns; Microsoft is #1. Who complains loudest about Google linking to infringing content in its search results? The movie and music industries, of course, who absolutely delight in taking whacks at the search engine. But thanks to a huge new trove of data released today by Google, we know that the worldwide top takedown requestor—by far—is actually Microsoft. If content owners claim that a Google search result links to infringing material, Google will remove the link. But just how many times does this happen—and who is making all the requests? Google today rolled out an upgrade to its "Transparency Report" that shows private copyright takedown information in addition to the usual government requests for user information or for censorship.
Patricia : #copyrights Amazon's own b... Amazon’s Brand of Censorship – Avoid Getting Banned from Amazon as an Author – Part 3. Amazon’s Brand of Censorship – Avoid Getting Banned from Amazon as an Author – Part 3 Now, the week-end is over, the full implication of the dangers included in violating Amazon Content Guidelines have fully sunk in, it is time to examine them with total attention. So, without further ado, let’s broach the fifth and last item on the agenda. SABAM Charged With Copyright Fraud, Embezzlement, Money Laundering. Belgian music rights group SABAM has a serious headache looming. Following a complaint filed by an artist back in 2004, a judge began investigating the group's finances. His findings mean that SABAM will now face court accused of falsifying accounts to cover up bribe payments, abuse of trust, copyright fraud and embezzlement. In 2004, a Belgian composer filed a complaint against local music rights group SABAM.
Rupert Murdoch: Plenty of Ignorant Argument on Copyright. 23 January '12, 12:42pm. Music Ind. accelerate copyR litigation. A right price for no fraud. Onsist - Mur. Cognitive screening, copyleft and consistency as between IP rights. Medical ideas copyright. Doctors Discover Copyright Law: Cognitive Screening Test Killed Over Infringement Claims. The RIAA Pirated $9 Million Worth of TV Shows. Government plans to improve UK's copyright laws. New copyright laws to curb film and music pirates. Enforcement of Copyright Holders' Rights Must Strike a Fair Balance with Other Fundamental Rights Rules ECJ : Seattle Copyright Watch : Washington Intellectual Property Lawyer : Licensing Attorney Tonya Gisselberg. The European Court of Justice (ECJ) recently ruled on this issue involving the intersection of protecting copyrights and protecting the freedom to conduct business, the protection of personal data and the freedom of information (paraphrased):
EU Parliament Seminar Looks At Risks Of Outsourcing Policing Of Internet. "Self"-Regulation. ItalyCensorsProxy. CopyrightInHelpOfPrivacy. Google500M-DMCA. RecordingIndSupportofCopyright. FOI request reveals plans for 'rapid procedure' on web blocking. The Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has been facilitating behind-the-scenes discussions between rights holder groups, internet service providers (ISPs) and other stakeholders in an attempt to formulate a new code of practice around website blocking, according to the documents obtained by digital rights campaigners the Open Rights Group (ORG). Inforrm's Blog.
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