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March 6, 2013
FixCopyright.com – Sounds Good, But a Little Detail Would Be Nice
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Derek Khanna, a copyright reform activist who I've written about previously, has launched a new website, FixCopyright.com, as part of his advocacy campaign. As a staunch advocate of strong intellectual property rig
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 14, 2013
Two Wrongs Don’t Make a Right – But They Do Make For An Entertaining Lawsuit Threat
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When you see headlines about ThePirateBay being involved in a legal tussle, one place you don't expect to see them is in the position of the plaintiff in a copyright case. If a lawsuit threat issued by TPB this week
February 12, 2013
Digital Fingerprint Filtering: It Only Works If You Use It
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In trying to encourage people to make use of the anti-piracy tools that scarpe basket jordan are available to them, be those people prospective DMCA Force clients or simply rights-holders with whom I'm friends, I'm
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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