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Hollywood Super Agent Ari Emanuel Mystified That Google Doesn’t Just Invent A Magic Stop Piracy Button
Famed Hollywood super agent Ari Emanuel (the model for Jeremy Piven’s character in Entourage, and the brother of Chicago mayor/former Obama chief of staff Rahm Emanuel) doesn’t have a particularly good history when it comes to his understanding of how … Continue reading
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Megaupload Filings Show Massive Flaws In US Case, Ask Court To Dismiss
While we’ve been mostly focused on the New Zealand aspects of the Megaupload case, the company (and the individuals sued) have made two interesting filings with the district court in the US concerning the case. The first one (pdf) seeks a dismissal of… Continue reading
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News Corp. Wonders If There Could Possibly Be Any Arguments Against Anti-Piracy Efforts
The International Institute of Communications is hosting a particularly one-sided “roundtable seminar” in Hong Kong this week about “content piracy.” Just from that phrase, you should know the deck has been stacked against a reasoned analysis of the n… Continue reading
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French Court Says Google Not Liable For Infringing Works Uploaded To YouTube
In a case that appears to parallel the Viacom/YouTube case in the US, French TV network TF1 sued YouTube/Google (and competitor Dailymotion), claiming that those sites were liable for infringing videos uploaded to the site. However, in a new ruling, a… Continue reading
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Irish Charity Told It Needs To Pay A License Fee To Link To A Newspaper Article
Via Mathew Ingram we learn of a ridiculous situation in Ireland, where the organization “Newspaper Licensing Ireland” has sent an email to the Women’s Aid charity, telling it that linking to newspaper websites without a license is copyright infringemen… Continue reading
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Fair Use, Public Domain And Creative Commons: They’re Not All The Same
Here’s the latest excerpt from our Techdirt Book Club selection for May, Reclaiming Fair Use by Patricia Aufderheide and Peter Jaszi. We’re running a bit late with these, and will have one more excerpt next week. If you want to see the first excerpt … Continue reading
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DailyDirt: Cheaper Satellites Are Blasting Off
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket has recently demonstrated its capabilities by successfully docking with the International Space Station. It’s the first example of a private company achieving this feat, and it’s paving the way for more private space ventures. … Continue reading
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UK High Court Judges Can’t Agree On Twitter Joke Issue, Require Rehearing Of The Case
Remember Paul Chambers? He’s the UK accountant who was arrested for tweeting:
“Robin Hood airport is closed. You’ve got a week and a bit to get your shit together, otherwise I’m blowing the airport sky high!!”
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Webmaster Convicted For Not Being Fast Enough In Deleting Comments That Insulted Thai King
For a few years now we’ve covered how the Thai government’s ridiculous “lese majeste” laws that forbid insulting the monarchy have been used repeatedly to censor open forums and arrest or intimidate critics. In one case, which we wrote about a few yea… Continue reading
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Regina Spektor: I’m Lucky That People Can Get All My Music For Free
We recently wrote about how both Amanda Palmer and Steve Albini think that file sharing is great for musicians. In the comments to that post, dwg pointed us to a new interview with musician Regina Spektor. The whole interview is interesting, but at t… Continue reading
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