'Copyright' Category
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Traditional knowledge pirated with copyright
September 18, 2005India adopts fighting position to hold on to ancient yoga poses, By David Orr in Delhi, News Telegraph (UK) 18/09/2005. The Indian government is furious that yoga practices dating back thousands of years are being “stolen” by gurus and fitness instructors in Europe and the United States…. In an effort to protect India’s heritage, the [...]
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Guide to DRM restrictions
September 2, 2005EFF: The Customer Is Always Wrong: A User’s Guide to DRM in Online Music “This guide ‘translates’ the marketing messages by the major services, giving you the real deal rather than spin.” Imagine if Tower Records sold you a CD, but then, a few months later, knocked on your door and replaced the CD with [...]
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Copyfight death match
August 21, 2005The History and Future of the Book: Digital Copyright Ok, maybe not as bloodthirstingly exciting as a WWF cage match, But pretty close! On the 14th of April 2005, Cornell University hosted a debate between an EFF staffer (Fred Von Lohmann), a copyfighting academic (Siva Vaidhyanathan), and legal heads of the RIAA (Cary Sherman), MPAA [...]
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Canada set to say “No caching”
July 25, 2005CNET: In Canada: Cache a page, go to jail? This is unbelievable! In an effort to get Canada up to speed with the 1996 WIPO copyright treaty (which spawned the extremely flawed DMCA!), the Canadian Parliament has placed on their docket a bill (C-60) that could make it illegal for search engines to cache Web [...]
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Critique of the creative commons
July 14, 2005The Libre Society David M. Berry & Giles Moss have recently written a polemic critiquing the creative commons (see the extended entry for the full article). They argue that the Creative Commons project — because it relies on an “ideology and worldview that agrees too readily with that of the global ‘creative’ and media industries,” [...]
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Research Institution Gives Away Research, Increases Sales
May 27, 2005South African lessons: Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) Lawrence Lessig notes on his blog the experience of the HSRC changing their publishing model. They started “to give away all their research books for free online, and offer a high quality print-on-demand service for anyone who wants the paper version. The result: ‘the sales turnover of [...]
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Lessig puts his foot down
April 8, 2005Lawrence Lessig: Never Again Way to go! Copyright must be changed one writer/creator at a time. And adding Lessig’s voice (not to mention stature) to this cause will shake the copyright tower to the core. Don’t forget to read the comments. Quite a good conversation going on there. Never again. It has taken me too [...]
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Boynton on Copyright
February 9, 2005Righting Copyright: Fair Use and “Digital Environmentalism” by Robert S. Boynton, Bookforum (February/March 2005) Boynton is director of New York University’s magazine journalism program. Recent stirrings in legal theory may give some comfort to the activist wing of digital environmentalism. Taking for granted the fact that the problem is less the letter of intellectual property [...]
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ARL principles on WIPO
February 2, 2005Library-Related Principles for the International Development Agenda of the World Intellectual Property Organization. Association of Research Libraries. January 26, 2005. An electronic form link on this page invites you to endorse these principles, which “…were prepared for use in discussions at the World Intellectual Property Organization concerning the impact of intellectual property protection on economic [...]
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Pew Internet & American Life Project
January 29, 2005DANGLING CONVERSATION Rock & Rap Confidential. No. 209, January 2005. This is a very nice short item in a great little newsletter. The article is about the Pew Internet & American Life Project study, Artists, Musicians, and the Internet, of 2,755 artists. The study shows that musicians are embracing the Internet and do not share [...]