Picked this one up on Ars Technica: “Copyright Reform Act tries fixing fair use with seven words.” Which is intriguing, considering the oceans of verbiage expended on the subject in the last few years. The CRA [Copyright Reform Act] is a new project from Public Knowledge, with much of the heavy lifting being done by [...]
I don’t often recommend reading court documents (boring!) but this one is worth it. As Techdirt put it, “You gotta love snarky legal filings.” The whole enchilada is available here. The North Face is suing the parody clothing company The South Butt for trademark infringement, giving rise to some erudite logo design analysis: The “half [...]
The first annual World’s Fair Use Day, in Washington DC, has come and gone, but good stuff about what happened can be found on techdirt and on thecommandline. Also, of course, at www.worldsfairuseday.org.
Starbucks Mexico, according to the Mexican government, did NOT do it’s due diligence in pursuing intellectual property rights before having mugs made with images of Aztec calendars and pyramids made for sale. Starbucks Mexico has taken the mugs off the shelves, apologized (to who?), and agreed to pay compensation (to who?) My Ethisphere e-bulletin asks [...]
Okay, people, it’s time to get down to discussing some serious infringement issues here. This secret, highly confidential video footage gets right to the heart of the thing. Recommended for mature audiences only: “Bootlegging Avatar.” Enjoy. Best wishes to all for an open source new year spent frolicking in the commons.
Looking for something else entirely today, I stumbled across this 2007 blog post by Georgia Harper on “a post-copyright era” for digital preservation. It’s provocative: “I’ve begun more and more to believe that for some things libraries need to do for the future, they just need to be done without much concern for what the [...]
For those who are really caught up in the on-going saga known as the Google Books Settlement (by far the best reality show now running) and the impact of book digitization on our culture in general, here are the links to Peter Hirtle’s extensive summaries of the D for Digitize conference at NY Law School, [...]
I’ll take my good news where ever I can dredge it up. This will do for today: By AOIFE WHITE (AP) BRUSSELS — The European Commission said Monday it may revise copyright law to make it easier for companies like Google Inc. to scan printed books and distribute digital copies over the Internet… Under Europe’s [...]
Excellent article from the Internet Archive on the Orphan Works issue, and whether Google is going to grab the role of Superman-to-the-rescue, and by the way make money from it, or if a more traditional and kosher legislative solution is needed. “At a Computer History Museum event last week in Silicon Valley, [Google's Dan]Clancy suggested [...]
Never thought I’d find something like this on Freakonomics, but hey, you never know where Biblical scholarship is going to pop up. Deuteronomy 23:25-26 reflects the limits on altruism: “When thou comest into thy neighbor’s standing corn, then thou mayest pluck ears with thy hand; but thou shalt not move a sickle unto thy neighbor’s [...]
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