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Like Clockwork: Copyright Holders Mistakenly Freak Out About Presidential Candidates Using Their Music
This seems to happen every four years like clockwork during Presidential elections. Some musician gets upset about a politician he or she disagrees with, making use of his or her music during campaign rallies. This time around the candidate is Newt G… Continue reading
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Copying Is Not Theft, But Censorship Is
This morning a friend shared with me some amusing American Sign Language videos, and in return I wanted to share with him my favorite ASL video of all time: B. Storm’s interpretation of the Gnarls Barkley song Crazy. Only I couldn’t because it was gone… Continue reading
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Please Keep The ACTA Debate Fact-Based
As we noted in our ACTA primer, there appeared to be a lot of misinformation spreading about the agreement — which many people were comparing to SOPA/PIPA. While we appreciated that folks who had become interested in SOPA/PIPA were turning their atte… Continue reading
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[one-liner]: Using the Command lsb_release to Determine Linux Distro Version Info
Background
If you need to determine which version of Linux you’re using you can use the command lsb_release. It’s part of the Linux Standards Base which is a specification that was created by the Linux Foundation.
Solution
Obviously there are other ways to do this, for example, on a Redhat based system you can look for the file […] Continue reading
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Will Academics’ Boycott Of Elsevier Be The Tipping Point For Open Access — Or Another Embarrassing Flop?
It’s now widely recognized that the extreme demands of SOPA/PIPA catalyzed a new activism within the Net world, epitomized by the blackout effected by sites like Wikipedia on January 18. But as Techdirt has reported, SOPA and PIPA are not the only att… Continue reading
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Does President Obama’s Google Hangout Represent A Milestone?
Yesterday, President Obama used Google Hangout to do a kind of online virtual town hall meeting, which was both live streamed and is now up on Youtube:
Being a “first” such use of a relatively new technology is bound to get some attention, and I tho… Continue reading
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FIFA Orders Brazil To Overturn Ban On Selling Beer At World Cup Matches
One of the recurrent themes on Techdirt is the sense of entitlement the owners of various kinds of monopolies display, and their common belief that being able to maximize the profit from those monopolies trumps any other consideration.
For example, FI… Continue reading
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Newzbin Lawyer Struck Off For Posting Insulting Tweets During Case — & Failing To Declare He Owned The Company He Defended
Well, this one’s bizarre. Back in March 2010 we wrote about the UK Usenet aggregator Newzbin being found liable for the copyright infringment of its users. A year later, the ISP BT was ordered to block access to Newzbin2, its successor. What amounte… Continue reading
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DailyDirt: Ads Are Content
One of the recurring themes around here is that advertising should be engaging and entertaining, not annoying. Every year, there are excellent examples of this truism — during the halftime of the Superbowl. Some ads are easily forgotten, but some are … Continue reading
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Is The ‘Legislative Solution’ To Online Infringement To Create A Content Use Registry?
While the White House has been asking the tech/internet world to come up with their own “best ideas” concerning legislative solutions for copyright issues, it’s a question that rubs many the wrong way. As folks like Tim O’Reilly have noted, this seems… Continue reading
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