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January 3, 2010South 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). [...]
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Franken-copyright in the academy
August 26, 2006Boing 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 [...]
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Orphan Works Act (H.R. 5439) introduced
May 25, 2006First 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 [...]
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Yale Access to Knowledge conference, Apr 21-23
March 16, 2006Yale 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 [...]
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“On the road” on display at SFPL
February 1, 2006Thomas 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 [...]
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ColdPizza DRM parody
January 5, 2006Boing 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 [...]
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DRM failures
October 31, 2005DRM 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 [...]
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Cory Doctorow on the Broadcast Flag
October 25, 2005EFF: 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 [...]
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Excellent article about DRM
October 25, 2005Media 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 [...]
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Cory Doctorow’s new DRM talk
September 28, 2005DRM 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 [...]
