Does copyright incentivize creativity?
Andrew Dubber has a much linked-to post recently in which he declares that music copyright should last for five years, renewable on the condition of commercial availability. That would make a gigantic improvement over the current ...Experts Attack Big Content's EU Copyright Power-Grab
Now that the EU plan to retroactively add 45 years of copyright protection to old sound recordings looks set to keep the work of the 50s and 60s locked up for another half century, resistance is solidifying. The Declaration on the Three-Step test
The declaration is available here, at the Max Planck website, and is entitled “A Balanced Interpretation of the ‘Three-Step Test’ in Copyright Law. The word balanced is accurate for all but the most partisan of combatants in the ... From Copyright Clearance Center to GumGum?
Might this device play the same role in a potential copyright suit between AP and bloggers as CCC played in the Texaco case--ie, increase the willingness of judges to force bloggers to license content? NBC, Fox file copyright lawsuit against video site
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - NBC and Fox News Channel sued video-sharing service Redlasso for copyright infringement Wednesday, accusing the website of showing programs like "The Tonight Show" and "The Fox Report with Shepard Smith" without ... Copyright Confusion
This "victory" (which could be easily circumvented in future contracts with provisions on electronic rights) led to a class action in New York federal court called "In Re: Literary Works in Electronic Databases Copyright Litigation," in ... Great Wall Motor may appeal copyright ruling
Chinese auto maker Great Wall Motor may bring in independent expertise for a possible appeal against an Italian court that ruled to ban the sale of the company's Peri car in Europe, the South China Morning Post reported. ... Nothing to See Here: YouTube’s “New” Copyright Tech
In part to try to keep itself within copyright law, and also because it gets so much video, YouTube does not screen content before posting it on the site. But the site doesn’t include new uploads in search indexes until they go through ... Copyright = 5 years?
Andrew Dubber, New Music Strategies blogger, has a lot of folks riled up about copyright– including me. I’d be remiss if I didn’t send some readers his way; the conversation has been fantastically interesting. His idea? ... COPYRIGHT COMIC BOOK--REALLY!
Duke University's Center for the Study of the Public Domain has created a comic book on copyright. It is called Bound by Law and features the issues surrounding film making and copyright. It is both entertaining and very informative. ...
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