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Friday’s Endnotes – 01/27/12

Terry Hart • January 27, 2012 • 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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Friday’s Endnotes – 09/30/11

Terry Hart • September 30, 2011 • Posted in Friday's Endnotes • Comments closed

Make money online by selling pirated content? These sites do — File lockers and linking sites on their own are difficult to hold liable for the rampant infringement they facilitate. But together? “The combination of these two types of sites is like a one-two punch resulting in a knockout. They are both essential for one another [...]

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Free Ride: How Digital Parasites are Destroying the Culture Business, and How the Culture Business can Fight Back

Terry Hart • August 17, 2011 • Posted in Copyright news • Comments closed

A conventional narrative has emerged of  the media and creative industries’ response to the internet and digital technology. Beginning around the mid-1990s, this story has been one of old against new: stodgy, corporate executives holding on to the past versus hip digital natives embracing the future. These technologies have rendered copyright law broken according to [...]

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Fall of File-Sharing

Terry Hart • October 5, 2010 • Posted in Copyright news • Comments closed

Update: the title of this post refers to the season (as in “the summer of savings!”). I inexplicably hadn’t thought of the more common meaning of ‘fall’ when I wrote it (d’oh!), and this post is not meant to imply that I think file-sharing is going away anytime soon. This is the fall of file-sharing. [...]

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On top of Spaghetti: Copyright’s Complexity

Terry Hart • September 1, 2010 • Posted in Copyright Criticism • Comments closed

Earlier this month, this picture1 made the rounds online: The response to this diagram was typically something like, “Look at how complex the music industry is!” – and nothing more. I suppose the conclusion to be drawn is that complexity, in and of itself, is bad. But if you diagrammed any industry, you’d likely end [...]

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