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March 1, 2013
The Copyright Alert System, Consumer Attitudes and…Fascism?
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Well, that didn't take long. The Copyright Alert System has only been in place for a matter of days, and already some consumers (who do not appear to have received any notices) are already comparing it to the mecha
February 27, 2013
The Implicit Message Behind File-Sharing
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It has often been said that in a free market, the value of a product or service is whatever people are willing to pay for it. Whenever I'm speaking to someone who expresses confusion about how a given service prov
February 25, 2013
The Copyright Alert System Launches At Last
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After an unanticipated delay stemming from the carnage caused by Hurricane Sandy, the Center for Copyright Information's "Copyright Alert System" (CAS) is kicking off this week, according to a blog post published to
February 22, 2013
RIAA Grades Google’s ‘Anti-Piracy Algorithm’ and (Surprise!) Google Gets an F
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As you might recall if you follow copyright and piracy-related news, Google announced back in August that it was going to start taking into account the number of valid copyright removal notices it received for any g
February 20, 2013
Another Day, Another (Misleading) Infographic About Online Piracy
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Over on Mashable, there's a recent post that includes an infographic entitled "The Obscenely High Penalties of Downloading Music" attributed to Total Bankruptcy Attorneys. Couched in language that makes it quite cle
February 18, 2013
Google Seeking to Cut Funding to Piracy Sites?
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In a brief and maddeningly vague article published over the weekend, The Telegraph reports that Google is in discussions with air max 95 pas cher VISA, Mastercard and PayPal seeking ways to cut off funding to "illeg
February 15, 2013
(Not So) Intellectual Property
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Among the many stumbling blocks that face rights-holders in the Internet Age, one of the more confounding is... other rights-holders. Take, for example, the case of investigative reporter Teri Buhl, who recently de
February 8, 2013
Can Pressure on Major Brands Over Support of Piracy Sites Make a Difference?
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There's an encouraging, if modest, trend afoot in the ongoing battle against online piracy: rights-holders, recording artists, and those who support them are starting to make some noise of the sort that makes corpor
February 5, 2013
Forbes Presents: NMPA vs. CEA
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Over on Forbes.com, the last week has seen the publication of two opposing posts on the air max 97 pas cher subject of copyright law and the place of the same in the context of the American economy and public policy
February 1, 2013
Cory Doctorow on the Difference Between Plagiarism and Copyright Infringement
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Synchronicity is a funny thing. This morning, in deliberating what topic I should take up next on this blog, a question occurred to me: Why are so many advocates of unfettered file-sharing and/or online piracy als
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