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Join filmmaker Brett Gaylor and mashup artist Girl Talk as they explore copyright and content creation in the digital age. In the process they dissect the media landscape of the 21st century and shatter the wall between users and producers. Creative Commons founder, Lawrence Lessig , Brazil's Minister of Culture, Gilberto Gil , and pop culture critic Cory Doctorow also come along for the ride.
September 12, 2011 | By Richard Smirke, with additional reporting by Glenn Peoples The European Union has extended the term of copyright protection offered to sound recordings from 50 to 70 years, following a prolonged campaign from the music industry. The legislation, which was first proposed by the European Commission in 2008 and voted on by the European Parliament in April 2009, was passed today (Sept. 12) by the EU Council of Ministers in Brussels.
EU Extends Copyright Term To 70 Years | Billboard.biz
Image via Wikipedia Steve Jobs presented a web storage service called iCloud this week that marked cloud computing’s transition to the mainstream. But a debate is already raging about what some of iCloud’s features could mean for the future of digital music and video. For his “one last thing” announcement at Monday’s WWDC, Jobs unveiled iTunes Match, a service that scans and matches any music you have on your computer that wasn’t obtained through iTunes–ripped, or it appears even illegally downloaded–and puts it on your iCloud account, a replacement to MobileMe. (Apple could not be reached for comment by phone or email to explain how iTunes Match worked with pirated music, but a number of reports suggest it will.) Apple then automatically puts that music on up to 10 devices that are wirelessly connected to the same MobileMe account, bypassing the fiddly USB process.
Why Copyright Holders Love iTunes Match And Pirates Hate It - Parmy Olson - Disruptors - Forbes
When Lawrence Golan picks up his baton here at the University of Denver, the musicians in his student orchestra see a genial conductor who corrects their mistakes without raising his voice in frustration. Yet Mr. Golan is frustrated, not with the musicians, but with a copyright law that does them harm. For 10 years, the music professor has been quietly waging a legal campaign to overturn the statute, which makes it impossibly expensive for smaller orchestras to play certain pieces of music. Now the case is heading to the U.S. Supreme Court.
A Professor's Fight Over Shostakovich Heads to the Supreme Court - Technology - The Chronicle of Higher Education
Η υπόθεση της σύλληψης του ξανθιώτη διαχειριστή του πολύ γνωστού ιστότοπου tainies.org είχε προκαλέσει αρκετά μεγάλο θόρυβο πριν από μερικούς μήνες. Όχι μόνο επειδή πρόκειται για ένα νεαρό από την Ξάνθη που δημιούργησε έναν ιστότοπο με μεγάλη επισκεψιμότητα σε όλη τη χώρα , το διάστημα που λειτούργησε, αλλά και γιατί η δικαστική εξέλιξη της υπόθεσης είναι πρωτόγνωρη και θα απασχολήσει όλη τη χώρα. Αυτό οφείλεται στο γεγονός ότι ο νεαρός δεν διένειμε ταινίες μέσω downloading, ούτε παρέπεμψε άμεσα σε παράνομο υλικό, αλλά κατεύθυνε τους χρήστες της ιστοσελίδας tainies.org σε άλλο δικτυακό τόπο (tainiesonline.blogspot.com), και από εκεί υπήρχαν παραπομπές (links) για τρίτο δικτυακό τόπο, όπου οι χρήστες είχαν τη δυνατότητα να βρουν οδηγίες για να παρακολουθήσουν από file sharing- και όχι να «κατεβάσουν» όπως επαναλαμβάνει ο νεαρός- μια ταινία.
Υπόθεση tainies.org: Το Facebook πρόδωσε το νεαρό ξανθιώτη.
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