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Friday’s Endnotes – 02/17/12

Terry Hart • February 17, 2012 • Also posted in Friday's Endnotes • 9 Comments

Spinning the Online Piracy Debate — Christopher Shea at the Wall Street Journal reports on how a study that examined the effects of P2P downloading on US box office receipts has been spun by some, including Boing Boing’s Cory Doctorow and TorrentFreak, to show no harm from piracy. (I would add Public Knowledge to this [...]

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Friday’s Endnotes – 02/10/12

Terry Hart • February 10, 2012 • Also posted in Friday's Endnotes • 9 Comments

Hit record — Salon.com Editor-in-chief Kerry Lauerman reports on lessons his company has learned. Aggregation, staff cuts, and emphasis on churning out content — doesn’t work. Focusing on originality, quality over quantity, and publishing less while spending more time on writing — does work. The site has grown its readership for the second year in [...]

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Friday’s Endnotes – 02/03/12

Terry Hart • February 3, 2012 • Also posted in Friday's Endnotes • 10 Comments

What do Record Labels Actually Do? You’d be Surprised — “For all the cynicism about money-grabbing majors, labels still offer artists the security they need to produce their best work,” says Helienne Lindvall of the Guardian. “It’s true the internet has been brilliant for artists in many ways, giving them an alternative route to make [...]

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Friday’s Endnotes – 01/27/12

Terry Hart • January 27, 2012 • Also posted in Friday's Endnotes • 10 Comments

The Truth Behind Google’s Copyright-Bills Hysteria — Great piece on the hyperbole that became the norm over recent legislation. “The tech industry has demonstrated great political clout through the mobilization of its users and fan base; and the industry lobby, led by Google, will say and do pretty much anything to advance its commercial interests.” The [...]

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Saturday’s Endnotes – 01/21/12

Terry Hart • January 21, 2012 • Also posted in Friday's Endnotes • 30 Comments

Slow news week, right? Other than a Supreme Court decision, one of the largest criminal copyright infringement indictments in history, and an internet protest against SOPA that resulted in nearly 1.5% of the US population contacting their representatives. Inevitably a lot of links today will deal with issues surrounding SOPA and the PROTECT IP Act. [...]

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Saturday’s Endnotes – 01/14/12

Terry Hart • January 14, 2012 • Also posted in Friday's Endnotes • Comments closed

“It has been a generally accepted theory, but a false one, that infringement of copyright only takes place when copies are made for public sale or performance, and not when they are intended merely for personal use.” Musical News, vol. 8, pg. 314 (April 6, 1895). SOPA  and Censorship Spillovers — Law professor Randal C. Picker [...]


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Friday’s Endnotes – 01/06/12

Terry Hart • January 6, 2012 • Also posted in Friday's Endnotes • 30 Comments

Happy 2012 everybody! Joshua Johnson’s KQED Forum on Rogue Sites — KQED recently hosted a discussion of rogue sites legislation featuring EFF-attorney-turned-Google-lawyer Fred von Lohmann, indie filmmaker Ellen Seidler, Rep. Darrell Issa, and NBC Universal general counsel Rick Cotton. Chris Castle takes a good look at some points that didn’t come up or weren’t fully addressed. [...]

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Friday’s Endnotes – 12/23/11

Terry Hart • December 23, 2011 • Also posted in Friday's Endnotes • 36 Comments

I’ll be taking a holiday break from blogging, so this will be the last post of 2011. A big thank you to all my readers for a great year. Small Copyright Claims Request for Comment — “The U.S. Copyright Office is undertaking a study at the request of Congress to assess whether and, if so, how [...]

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Friday’s Endnotes – 12/16/11

Terry Hart • December 16, 2011 • Also posted in Friday's Endnotes • 4 Comments

Tomorrow is Beethoven’s birthday.1 The famous composer lived when copyright doctrine was still young. It had yet to become useful as legal protection for many composers, yet — little known fact — Beethoven was still concerned about piracy. Economist Frederic Scherer relates a couple stories about this concern in his paper The Emergence of Musical Copyright in Europe from [...]

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Friday’s Endnotes – 12/09/11

Terry Hart • December 9, 2011 • Also posted in Friday's Endnotes • 27 Comments

OPEN Act (OPA) draft language released — The big news in the US this week was the public release of draft legislation for an alternative to SOPA and PROTECT IP. Thoughts? I’ll have a post on the language next week, most likely. The Mystery Man Behind Megaupload Piracy Fight — As I understand it, Megaupload [...]

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