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Will U.S. Harm Its Economy, Security With Myopic IP Bills?

Edward J. Black | Posted 01.01.2012

Read More: Copyright Infringement, Pipa, China Internet, Piracy, Copyright, Sopa, Internet Freedom, Free Speech, Internet Censorship, Cybersecurity, Economic Recovery, Internet Security, Fair Use, Politics News

Author's Note: While this is not an actual intercepted diplomatic cable, I can imagine similar sentiments have been communicated. This legislation is...

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Hold the Line: Stop Copyright Rendition!

Lewis Hyde | Posted 12.04.2011

Read More: Public Domain, Copyright, Golan, Uruguay Round, Supreme Court, Section 514, First Amendment, Copyright Rendition, Fair Use, Culture News

In 1948, Twentieth-Century Fox released the Cold War's first anticommunist film, Iron Curtain, the soundtrack of which featured music by Russian composer Dimitri Shostakovich. Shostakovich himself never saw the film.

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YouTube Copyright Takedown Targets Punk Bands

Lisa Derrick | Posted 11.28.2011

Read More: Lower Class Brats, SST Records, Fair Use, Sin 34, Greg Ginn, X, Copyright Violation, Copyright, Puzzled Panthers, Youtube, Fear, The Adolescents, Media News

In recent months there have been a slew of takedowns under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act on YouTube affecting numerous punk bands. Once a vid...

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Richard Prince And Gagosian Gallery Lose Copyright Case

The Art Newspaper | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Photography, Jamaica, Rastafarian, Copyright, Yes Rasta, Patrick Cariou, Canal Zone, Larry Gagosian, Gagosian Gallery, Fair Use, Richard Price, Arts News

new york. A US District judge has ruled in favour of photographer Patrick Cariou in his copyright lawsuit against artist Richard Prince. Cariou ori...

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Ripping Off Newspaper Websites Shortchanges Democracy

Jason Salzman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Drudge Report, Righthaven, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Denver Post, Otherwords, Future of Journalism, Fair-Use-Law, Righthaven Drudge, Journalism, Fair Use, Denver News

The routine looting and scattering of a publication's website content across the blogosphere, where newspapers have no prayer reaping any profit, amounts to one more nail in the coffin of journalism.

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The Panda Appropriations -- Part 3: Playing the Courts

Cat Weaver | Posted 05.25.2011

Part of the reason that an artist like Rob Pruitt can build a career out of quotations, traces and copies is that the interpretation of "the doctrine of fair use" is subjective.

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The Panda Appropriations: When Your Property Is My Medium

Cat Weaver | Posted 05.25.2011

It might seem like a good idea to surrender the ghostly essence of owned ideas. But when it comes down to the question of who's making money from whose efforts, we all chaff.

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The Denver Post Should Come Clean on Its Campaign to Protect Itself

Jason Salzman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Drudge Report, Fair Use, Steven Gibson, Las Vegas Sun, Denver Post, Copyright, Righthaven, Denver News

I'm glad the Post is trying to protect its content, because I don't buy the argument that newspapers are giving away their articles on their websites for free. Still, you have to wonder about the Righthaven approach.

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Sarah Palin Book Excerpts Must Be Removed From Gawker, Judge Rules

AP / The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: America by Heart, Harpercollins, Gawker, Books, 40-Year-Old Virgin, Simon Cowell, Going Rogue, Juno, Knocked Up, Publishing, Book Excerpts, Sarah Palin, Copyright Law, Fair Use, Books News

NEW YORK — A federal judge on Saturday ordered Gawker Media to pull leaked pages of Sarah Palin's forthcoming book "America by Heart: Reflection...

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Food Magazine Editor Lifts Article, Tells Writer "You Should Compensate Me"

How Publishing Really Works | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cooks Source Scandal, Copyright, Cooks Source, Food Writing, Food Magazines, Magazines, Fair Use, Cooks Source Theft, Food News

In 2005 a writer called Monica Gaudio wrote a great article called A Tale Of Two Tarts, which discussed (among other things) apple pie's Americanism (...

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Glenn Beck's F.U.* Problem

Art Brodsky | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Walt Disney Company, Copyright Law, Donald Duck, Glenn Beck, Fair Use, Media News

Glenn Beck's response to Jonathan McIntosh's brilliant remix video is worthy of a close look because in just a few words, Beck shows what he is all about, and that he has no concept of fairness, or of fair use.

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The "Imbecile" and "Moron" Responds: On the Freedoms of Remix Creators

Lawrence Lessig | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Copyright Law, Copyright, Remix, Lawrence Lessig, Vimeo Festival and Awards, Vimeo, Fair Use, Politics News

We need an anti-moron norm: If something sounds crazy, assume its not. Assume you've missed something, and check again. If after reading and trying to understand the issue and the person more, you still think its crazy, go slow.

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Slowed-Down Bieber: A Glacial Victory for Fair Use

Jason Sigal | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Creative Commons, Copyright, Copyright Law, Music Industry, Music, Lawrence Lessig, Fair Use, Justin Bieber, Free Culture, Twitter, Arts News

Multiple major labels have lent their support to a hugely popular (and quite excellent) 800%-slower remix of Justin Beiber's song "U Smile." This, despite the fact that it is arguably a copyright infringement.

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Salinger Parody In Copyright Battle; Swedish Book Unlikely To Be Published In U.S.

AP | LARRY NEUMEISTER | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Copyright Infringement, Fair Use, Copyright, J.D. Salinger, Salinger, 60 Years Later: Coming Through the Rye, Salinger Parody, The Catcher in the Rye, Books, Parody, Books News

NEW YORK — A Swedish author is unlikely to win approval through the courts to publish his novel in the United States, because it is substantiall...

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Putting the "Fair" Back in "Fair Use"

Noah Baron | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Youtube, Internet Freedom, Riaa, Lawsuit, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Fair Use, Technology News

Over at YouTube, corporations are flaunting Fair Use laws as they push the video site to take down parodies of the movie The Downfall.

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The Brooklyn Museum's Copyright Project

Jonathan Melber | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cultural Institutions, Public Domain, The Brooklyn Museum, Art, Flickr, Remix, Copyright, Flickr Commons, Contemporary Art, Art Museums, Wikimedia, Fair Use, New York News

The Brooklyn Museum understands that the public better served, when it allows its collection to be reproduced, remixed and disseminated in as many (non-commercial) ways as possible.

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Microsoft, News Corp Have Talked About De-Indexing From Google

Financial Times | Matthe Garrahan, Richard Waters, Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rupert Murdoch and the Internet, De-Index, News Corp, Microsoft, Online Subscriptions, Content, Bing, Facebook, Google Summaries, Wall Street Journal, Pay for News, Msnbc, Internet, Search Engine War, The Sun, Rupert Murdoch, Google Rss, Search Engine, Stories, News, Online News, Google Headlines, Myspace, Rss, Link Economy, Google, Fair Use, Media News

Microsoft has had discussions with News Corp over a plan that would involve the media company's being paid to "de-index" its news websites from Google...

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James Joyce Copyright Battle Lost: Estate Pays Author's Legal Costs

Law.com | Karen Sloan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: James Joyce Book, James Joyce, James Joyce Settlement, Joyce, Books, James Joyce Copyright, Joyce Estate Settlement, Joyce Estate, James Joyce Estate, Fair Use, Books News

The estate of author James Joyce has agreed to pay $240,000 in legal costs incurred by a Stanford University scholar following a fair use legal battle...

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A Remix Manifesto for Our New Copyright Czar

Jonathan Melber | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lawrence Lessig, Remix, Kanye West, James Boyle, Copyright, Copyright Czar, Copyright Law, Policy, Music, Victoria Espinel, The Legendary K.O., Fair Use, Sampling, Media News

Obama has appointed the first U.S. copyright czar. Our profoundly broken copyright laws, rather than fostering creativity, as they were originally intended, now inhibit it at every turn.

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Young Adult Books Needed For Braille Class

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Young Adult Novels, Braille, Creative Commons, Reading, Fair Use, Ebooks, Impact News

Here's a letter by Patti Smith (not that one), a Detroit elementary school teacher of visually impaired students, sent to writer Cory Doctorow. She di...

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Fairey v. AP v. Garcia v. Fairey: "Hope" Poster Photographer Asks, "What About Me?"

Jonathan Melber | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fair Use, Copyright, Mannie Garcia, Associated Press Fair Use, Law, AP Fair Use, Photography, Art, Shepard Fairey, Barack Obama, Obama Hope Poster, Media News

I still think the "Hope" poster constitutes fair use. But if anyone can convince a court otherwise, it's photographer Mannie Garcia's formidable legal team.

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Copyright Needs Limits, As It Restricts Innovation

Gary Shapiro | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Supreme Court, Movie Industry, Consumer-Electronics-Association, Copyright, Riaa, Content Creation, Innovation, Creative Commons, Dvr, Apple, Dell, Qualcomm, Jfk, Cea, Ebay, Sony Betamax, Amazon, Vcr, Fair Use, Google, Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, Gary Shapiro, mp3s, Congress, Hollywood, Facebook, Tivo, Mark Helprin, Cisco, Piracy, Music Industry, Texas Instruments, Zillow, Hp, Patents, Business News

Defenders of expanded copyright restrictions imply that content owners have been on a losing streak and have few tools at their disposal. Wrong.

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Oh, the Hypocrisy: First Amendment Attorneys Would Destroy the Internet to Save Newspapers

Art Brodsky | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Internet, First Amendment, Newspapers, Fair Use, Future of Journalism, Death of Newspapers, Journalism, Media News

The sense of entitlement that has characterized the newspaper business for the past 150 years is now going too far, conflating the business of journalism with the freedoms due the practice of journalism.

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Nancy Reagan's Internet Solution for Whining Newspapers

Art Brodsky | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Internet, Newspapers, Dallas Morning News, Wall Street Journal, Fair Use, Mark Halperin, Media News

If the news industry was as adept with its technology and finance as it is with its corporate whining and pleading, we would all be a lot better off.

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Hypocrisy And Bad Faith In The AP's Countersuit Against Shepard Fairey

Jonathan Melber | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fair Use, Copyright, Mannie Garcia, Associated Press Fair Use, Law, AP Fair Use, Photography, Art, Media News, Shepard Fairey, Barack Obama, Obama Hope Poster, Shepard Fairey Poster, Shepard Fairey AP, Media News

An AP victory in this case would undermine artistic freedom. And it would, to paraphrase Lawrence Lessig, effectively outlaw a legitimate form of art.

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