Monthly Archives: June 2011

Demonizing Copyright

Terry Hart • June 27, 2011 • Posted in Copyright history • Comments closed

The tagline of this site is “understanding the copyright wars.” The reasons for so much debate surrounding this subject are many, but the why of the copyright wars might be boiled down like this: The onslaught of the new technology, combined with the introduction into the international copyright system of countries with different needs and with [...]

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Friday’s Endnotes – 06/24/11

Terry Hart • June 24, 2011 • Posted in Friday's Endnotes • Comments closed

Copyhype has a Facebook page — I created a Facebook page for Copyhype this week. Hope to see you there! Video Streaming Bill Targets Criminals, Not Lip-syncers — The MPAA knocks down the fears that S.978 will put people in jail for embedding YouTube videos. Of course it won’t; how many people are in jail [...]

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Making Copyright Management Information Sexy: Murphy v. Millennium Radio Group

Terry Hart • June 21, 2011 • Posted in Copyright news • Comments closed

Copyright management information is not a particularly sexy topic, but that all changed thanks to the help of a couple of nude DJs. On June 14, the First Circuit released its opinion in Murphy v. Millennium Radio Group. The underlying dispute is fairly straight-forward. A photographer was hired by a magazine to shoot a photo [...]

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Friday’s Endnotes – 06/17/11

Terry Hart • June 17, 2011 • Posted in Friday's Endnotes • Comments closed

CREATE: Protecting Creativity from the Ground Up — On Wednesday, I had the pleasure of attending this event from Arts+Labs, which brought together creators, content and technology professionals, elected officials, and others to “examine the business and rights challenges facing creators in the digital era.” The Arts+Labs blog and YouTube channel has video of the [...]

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Timbaland wins 2nd Sampling Lawsuit in 3 Months

Terry Hart • June 15, 2011 • Posted in Copyright news • Comments closed

It’s been a good couple of months for music producer Timbaland. At the end of March, the 11th Circuit affirmed a grant of summary judgment in favor of Timbaland in a copyright infringement suit brought by Saregama.1 The Indian music production and distribution company alleged that Timbaland had sampled a portion of one of its [...]

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Copyright Legislation 2.0

Terry Hart • June 13, 2011 • Posted in Copyright reform • Comments closed

Imagine if the web had not progressed past the technology available around the mid 1990s, when it made its way into the mainstream. No Flash or JavaScript, no CSS, PHP, or XML, no widgets or APIs. Just plain vanilla HTML (and maybe some server-side scripting if you knew what you were doing). It would be [...]

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Friday’s Endnotes – 06/10/11

Terry Hart • June 10, 2011 • Posted in Friday's Endnotes • Comments closed

Internet Piracy and How to Stop It — The NY Times comes out in support of the PROTECT IP Act, though it does have some concerns. It worries that it may lead to overreaching and provides the DMCA takedown notice of Lenz’s dancing baby as an example — but it’s hard to see how that’s an [...]

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Fears of Felony Streaming Bill Overblown

Terry Hart • June 7, 2011 • Posted in Copyright reform • Comments closed

The Senate Judiciary Committee is set to consider legislation that would make unauthorized public performance of a copyrighted work a felony. Currently, only unauthorized reproduction and distribution can incur felony charges under criminal copyright infringement provisions — violation of other exclusive rights, like public performance, is considered a misdemeanor. Bill S. 978 (referred by some [...]

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Friday’s Endnotes – 06/03/11

Terry Hart • June 3, 2011 • Posted in Friday's Endnotes • Comments closed

Maria Pallante Appointed 12th Register of Copyrights — Congratulations to Ms. Pallante for becoming the next Register of Copyrights. Pallante brings a wealth of experience from her previous work in the Copyright Office and the private sector. Google’s Selective Human Rights Advocacy on the Protect IP Act — The $30 billion a year corporation is [...]


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