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The Supreme Court’s denial of cert. in the Cablevision remote-DVR case has launched countless column inches of commentary and analysis already, much of it focused on the problems it poses for the Hollywood studios and TV networks worried about its impact on ad-skipping (see here, here and here). But the studios and networks aren’t the only losers Read More …
I’m assuming a judge and scholar as smart as Richard Posner of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals doesn’t really believe copyright law should be extended to cover the paraphrasing of news reports without the permission of the copyright owner, as he seemed to suggest in a recent blog post (h/t TechCrunch). Instead, I’ll assume he Read More …
Last week saw two interesting developments in the ongoing debate over effects of file-sharing and what to do about it. On Thursday, a federal jury in Minneapolis ordered Jammie Thomas-Rasset to pay $1.92 million to Universal Music Group and other record labels after finding she had downloaded 24 songs illegally. That works out to a staggering Read More …
Public Knowledge and the Electronic Frontier Foundation announced earlier this week that they are “reluctantly” dropping their lawsuit against the U.S. Trade Representative, which sought information on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) being secretly negotiated by the U.S. and a dozen other countries. The public-interest groups made the decision to withdraw the litigation after the Obama Administration Read More …
The copyright industries had high hopes for France’s three-strikes law. At the World Copyright Summit in Washington last week, speakers had nothing but praise for the government of President Nicolas Sarkozy, who championed the law and railroaded it through the legislature. And they were crushed when, on the second day of the conference, the French Read More …