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Berman uses invalid data to call for stronger intellectual property laws
Just when you thought we were finally safe from the intellectual property abuses of Rep. Howard Berman (D‑Hollywood), he’s back with a new call for stronger intellectual property laws. Most rational US...
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The US entertainment cartel’s copyright enforcement laundry list
The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) have submitted their copyright laundry list (.pdf; 221KB) in response to the US Intellectual...
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Ron Wyden saves the internet (at least for this year)
The US entertainment cartel’s latest wet dream, the Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act (COICA), calls for a mandated government-run blacklist where domain name service (DNS), credit...
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EMI asks court to bar EFF amicus brief
UK record label EMI has asked a federal judge in New York to bar the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) from filing an amicus curiae brief in the record label’s lawsuit against MP3tunes. Amicus...
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Who needs COICA?
Who needs the Combating Online Infringements and Counterfeits Act (COICA)? Not the US government, that’s for sure. This week, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), a division of the US Department...
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Internet service providers to shill for entertainment cartel
For years the entertainment cartel has been nipping at the heels of the large internet service providers (ISPs) — AT&T, Cablevision, Comcast, Time Warner Cable, and Verizon — to join in their war...
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Entertainment cartel wants to break the internet
In an effort to eliminate any and all intellectual property infringement online, the entertainment cartel has this recurring wet dream of being allowed to interfere with the internet. Late last month...
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TPP may be worse than ACTA; we’ll never know until it’s too late
The US versions of vastly overreaching anti-piracy legislation — the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the House of Representatives and the Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA) in the Senate — were...
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Beware the entertainment cartel’s TPP
The US-based entertainment cartel is hell-bent on putting the internet genie back in its bottle, regardless of cost and consequences — intentional and unintentional. Its latest weapon of choice to...
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All watched over by machines of loving grace
A San Jose, CA US district court jury of seven men and two women found Samsung infringed all of Apple’s iOS utility patents (double-tap to zoom; pinch-to-zoom; and bounce-back in document scrolling) as...
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Copyright re-education camp
In November, US-based copyright scofflaws that get their internet connectivity from one of the five big service providers — AT&T, Cablevision, Comcast, Time Warner Cable, and Verizon — will be...
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Librarian of Congress DMCA exemptions
When the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) was passed into law in 1998, the Librarian of Congress was charged with the power to grant certain exemptions. The Librarian’s latest exemptions (.pdf;...
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A brief shining moment of GOP sanity: Gone in a flash
Late last Friday, The Republican Study Committee (RSC), the caucus of conservatives in the US House of Representatives, published a remarkably lucid, extraordinarily sane position paper on copyright...
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US entertainment cartel gets a pimp
The US entertainment cartel has finally found a pimp, however inadequte it may be: Your internet service provider. After more than four years of navel-gazing and arm twisting, the Copyright Alert...
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US Supremes uphold first-sale doctrine
The US Supreme Court, in a 6–3 decision (.pdf; 365KB), has upheld the first-sale doctrine of US copyright law by ruling that individuals who purchase foreign copyrighted works may resell them without...
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US entertainment cartel demands ability to deploy malware
The Commission on Theft of American Intellectual Property has published its “IP Commission Report” (.pdf; 1.7MB) that would be 84 pages of off-the-rails hilarious if it weren’t likely to be adopted in...
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Center for Social Media publishes fair use principles
In a valuable attempt to set a professional practices standard among journalists, the Center for Social Media has published its “Set of Principles in Fair Use for Journalists.” The center’s stated goal...
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Warren calls for Obama to release TPP documentation
US Senator Elizabeth Warren (D‑Massachusetts) is wielding her substantial progressive chops in some unexpected (and very welcome) ways. Take, for instance, her recent calls for the Obama administration...
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New York Times endorses TPP
The New York Times has endorsed the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a secretly negotiated trade deal devoid of any public participation. The agreement is so secret that the full text of the deal is...
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Google book-scanning project found to be fair use
In an intellectual property lawsuit that has stretched into eight years, Google’s book-scanning project has been found to be legal under the fair use provision of US copyright law. Google began...
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