South Korea was the first country to pass a “Three strikes” or “graduated response” law on March 3, 2009. France was the first country to introduce a similar three-strikes bill called Hadopi but it is still being litigated (BoingBoing has been tracking the French law but has not as yet written about the Korean law). [...]
Boing Boing: USC’s bizarre, non-legal copyright policy
Turns out our friend Cory Doctorow (see the video) is at USC for the year as a fulbright chair! This story’s truly bizarre and troubling for academic institutions. I thought the academy was supposed to protect scholars, not constrict them out of fear or ignorance?
…It purports to inform [...]
First off, let me apologize for not posting in a LONG time. It’s been hectic on this side of the monitor, and I’ve been blogging more on my other site, Free Government Information. Rest assured that LAZ is not defunct!
And now to the business at hand. Chairman Lamar Smith (TX-21) just introduced the ÒOrphan Works [...]
Yale A2K conference
Named after the proposed treaty by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), (for more see Consumer Project on Technology A2K site), Yale Law school and the Information Society Project will host the A2K conference next month. The goal of the A2K is to “to come up with a new analytic framework for analysing [...]
Thomas Hawk’s Digital Connection: An Open Letter to Myra Borshoff Cook, Tour Organizer for Jack Kerouac’s On the Road Manuscript Scroll
Jack Kerouac’s famous “On the Road” manuscript is currently on display at the San Francisco Public Library through March 19, 2006. The manuscript is a 120-foot long scroll of single-spaced, typed 12-foot long rolls of [...]
Boing Boing: What if pizzas came with licenses like the ones in DRM CDs?
What if you had to agree to a license in order to eat a pizza? BoingBoing pointed me to this parody by Groklaw of a restrictive license that is distributed with X&Y, Coldplay’s latest CD. The parody points out the rediculousness [...]
DRM technology has its first two major trainwrecks, by David Berlind, ZDNet.com October 28, 2005.
…in addition to making sure your content doesn’t work on incompatible devices, now the DRM technology keeps the content from working on compatible ones.
Some license issuers will not allow you to store backups of their license filesÉ.However, if you use these [...]
EFF: 3-minute Guide to the Broadcast Flag, by Cory Doctorow, Electronic Frontier Foundation
European Affairs Coordinator.
Copyfight
calls this “The Broadcast Flag for Dummies” and has more useful links to basic information about the broadcast flag.
As Cory notes, the “broadcast flag” is just the most recent example of the entertainment industry running scared:
The entertainment companies don’t like tools [...]
Media Companies Go Too Far in Curbing Consumers’ Activities, By WALTER S. MOSSBERG,
The Wall Street Journal., October 20, 2005.
Mossberg enumerates the problems with Digital
Rights Management (DRM) technologies on iTunes,
TiVo, Windows Media Player, and more. He notes
that “the real issue isn’t DRM itself — it’s the manner in which DRM is used by copyright [...]
DRM Talk for Hewlett-Packard Research
by Cory Doctorow,
European Affairs Coordinator, Electronic Frontier Foundation. (derived from notes for an invited talk to HP Research on DRM) 9/28/5
For nearly four years, I’ve
spent my time attending DRM standards meetings, consortia, and treaty
meetings at the United Nations. In that time, again and again, I’ve
seen tech giants like HP take suicidal [...]
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