Category: Copyright
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Fox News Columnist Pays Big Price for Reviewing a Pirated Movie – NYTimes.com
Mr. Friedman posted a minireview, adding, “It took really less than seconds to start playing it all right onto my computer.”
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Online = free? « Vincent Laforet’s Blog
Are blogs and social networking sites in effect being granted a de facto right to publish images for free from hereon out?
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The Online Photographer: AIG and US Airways Seek to Cover Up Flight 1549 Recovery Photos
Stephen Mallon might be sitting on some of the most newsworthy pictures never seen.
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McDonald’s Launches Social Media Beachhead on Flickr | Thomas Hawk Digital Connection
It is also interesting that by submitting photos to the official McDonald’s Flickr photo pool you are basically giving McDonalds a free unlimited irrevocable license to use your photographs any way they’d like to both now and in the future.
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The AP, OBAMA & Referencing – Obey Giant
I’m sure a lot of people are wondering about my case with the AP over the Obama HOPE poster. I can’t talk about every aspect of the case, but there are a few things I want to discuss and points I’d like to make.
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Obama Sides With RIAA, Supports $150,000 Fine per Music Track | Threat Level from Wired.com
The Obama administration for the first time is weighing in on a Recording Industry Association of America file sharing lawsuit and is supporting hefty awards of as much as $150,000 per purloined music track.
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British Journal of Photography – Cold shoulder from Coldplay
Coldplay has been accused of grabbing the rights to photographs taken during its concerts, BJP has learnt, pushing photographers to offer an alternative to music industry contracts.
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SFGate: Daily Dish : Corgan Fights for Radio Royalties
CLICK NOTE: As with all links to the Daily Dish, it’s really the comments…Smashing Pumpkins star Billy Corgan has testified before Congress in support of a new bill that would require radio stations to pay musicians every time their songs are played.
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Kutiman, Big Media, and the Future of Creative Entrepreneurship | 43 Folders
the disruptively talented Kutiman, who has made an astounding series of YouTube video remixes that’s lighting up the web and (one imagines) generating a lot of wood amongst our nation’s libidinous entertainment litigators.
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dvafoto – Survey shows photographers face increasing pressure over copyright
The British Photographic Council recently surveyed more than 1,000 photographers, press agencies, and picture libraries and found some disturbing trends
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Editorial Photographers UK | Survey shows photographers face increasing pressure over copyright
Professional photographers are coming under increasing pressure to hand over their rights, with those working in the editorial markets hardest hit, according to a new industry-wide report into the photography sector.
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Introspection of a Plural Wife (at Heart): Did the Release of 1000 Pages of FLDS Church Documents Violate the Church's, and Warren Jeffs', Right to Privacy?
Some of you have argued with me that the public has a right to Warren Jeffs’ private writings, and that argument is bolstered by the fact that he has been convicted and is in jail. I’m okay with the fact that you don’t agree with me, and I appreciate your thoughtful responses. However, this thing is really sticking in my craw and I’m just not convinced that this release was not an absolute violation of privacy rights that should concern every American citizen for the precedent it sets.
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Last.fm – "Techcrunch are full of sh*t"
On Friday night a technology blog called Techcrunch posted a vicious and completely false rumour about us: that Last.fm handed data to the RIAA so they could track who’s been listening to the “leaked” U2 album.
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Did Last.fm Just Hand Over User Listening Data To the RIAA?
UPDATE: Apparently not. See the first comment from Alex at Last.FM
word is going around that the RIAA asked social music service Last.fm for data about its user’s listening habits to find people with unreleased tracks on their computers. And Last.fm, which is owned by CBS, actually handed the data over to the RIAA
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Facebook Backtracks Under Community Pressure, Goes Back To Old ToS (For Now)
Isn’t it ironic that Facebook, which is so often used by groups of people to protest and demand changes for just about anything, has reverted to its former Terms Of Services under pressure of the community?
