Category Archives: Friday’s Endnotes

Friday’s Endnotes – 07/15/11

Terry Hart • July 15, 2011 • Also posted in Friday's Endnotes • Comments closed

Spotify US Premium Service Hands-On — Have you guys heard about this thing called Spotify? Apparently it’s this service where you can listen to music, and it just became available in the US yesterday. I’m having a difficult time finding any news about it though… I kid, I kid. I’d love to hear thoughts from anyone [...]

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Friday’s Endnotes – 07/08/11

Terry Hart • July 8, 2011 • Also posted in Friday's Endnotes • Comments closed

Creative America — Creative America is a new grassroots organization “uniting the entertainment community and others against content theft.” Along with their website, you can find the group on Facebook and Twitter. Chris Dodd of the MPAA remarks: Most of the over 2 million Americans whose jobs are supported by the motion picture industry aren’t marquee [...]

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Friday’s Endnotes – 07/01/11

Terry Hart • July 1, 2011 • Also posted in Friday's Endnotes • Comments closed

Barbara Ringer and Copyright History:  Remembering a Mentor, Colleague and Friend — H/T to Dean Kay for passing this along. On Monday, I shared an article written by Barbara Ringer. Long acknowledged as the “Nation’s foremost authority on copyright law”, this article, written by Morton David Goldberg after Ringer passed away 2 years ago, tells [...]


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Friday’s Endnotes – 06/24/11

Terry Hart • June 24, 2011 • Also 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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Friday’s Endnotes – 06/17/11

Terry Hart • June 17, 2011 • Also 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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Friday’s Endnotes – 06/10/11

Terry Hart • June 10, 2011 • Also 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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Friday’s Endnotes – 06/03/11

Terry Hart • June 3, 2011 • Also 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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Friday’s Endnotes – 05/27/11

Terry Hart • May 27, 2011 • Also posted in Friday's Endnotes • Comments closed

Tattoo Copyright — The lawsuit involving the tattoo in the Hangover 2 has generated considerable attention. Though the players involved and the medium of fixation amount for a good deal of the interest, I seem to think the actual legal issues involved are fairly mundane. Marisa Kakoulas, lawyer and self-proclaimed ‘tattoo nerd’, has one of [...]

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Friday’s Endnotes – 05/20/11

Terry Hart • May 20, 2011 • Also posted in Friday's Endnotes • Comments closed

Copyright is Not Dead — Though maybe it will be after tomorrow, what with the world ending and all. Anthony Accardo pens an excellent editorial over at Harvard Business Review. “It would be much easier for content owners to explore innovative suggestions about pricing, distributing free content for promotion, and using distribution technologies such as [...]

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Friday’s Endnotes – 05/13/11

Terry Hart • May 13, 2011 • Also posted in Friday's Endnotes • Comments closed

Content and Technology is not an Either/or Choice — The Copyright Alliance disputes the framing of efforts to better protect IP rights as a choice betweencopyright and innovation. “The copyright community and the technology sector drive and sustain each other.  They each contribute disproportionately to the wealth of this nation, and both sectors depend on a [...]

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