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April 29, 2013
Greenheart Games Gives Pirates a Taste of Their Own Medicine
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When it comes to getting people to really internalize a concept, it's often better to show, rather than tell. Take the harm done to game developers by online piracy of their creations, for example. You can spend al
April 26, 2013
Reforming Copyright: Where’s the Balance?
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Over on Ars Technica today, Timothy Lee has published an interesting piece called "Five ways Congress should improve the copyright system," and while I'm not in complete agreement with the measures Lee suggests, I f
April 24, 2013
Court: Grooveshark Not Protected by DMCA Safe Harbor on Pre-1972 Recordings
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In a decision handed down yesterday, a five-judge panel from the New York Supreme Court held that the 'safe harbor' provisions of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act do not shield Grooveshark from liability with res
April 22, 2013
The Perils of DMCA Take Down Notice Automation, Yet AGAIN?
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I've previously addressed, a few times now, the problem with relying too much on automated systems to identify infringing files that are then targeted with DMCA take-down notices. The latest widely-reported incident
April 19, 2013
YouTube Wins Another Round Against Viacom
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By now, you've probably seen the news that U.S. District Judge Louis Stanton has awarded summary judgment to YouTube in Viacom v. YouTube, and you've probably read the salient quotes from the decision, as well. Rat
April 15, 2013
Spain Tries to Keep Itself Off of USTR’s Watch List
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Each year, the office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) puts out what it calls a "Special 301" report, a review of "the of intellectual property rights (IPR) protection and enforcement in trading part
April 8, 2013
One Subject on Which Piracy Apologists Have a Point… To a Point
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In reading about the (inevitable) piracy of Netflix's popular original series House of Cards, and the yeezy replica evidently record-setting piracy of the third seasons premier of HBO's Game of Thrones, I'm struck b
March 18, 2013
New Study Says Piracy Doesn’t Hurt Digital Music Sales…. While Offering No Sales Data At All
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A new study published by the Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (part of the European Commission's "Joint Research Centre") asserts that "Internet users do not view illegal downloading as a substitute t
March 15, 2013
Study Concludes That Megaupload Shutdown Boosted Movie Sales
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In a study published earlier this month, professors Brett Danaher (of Wellesley College's Department of Economics) and Michael D. Smith (from Carnegie Mellon University's H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy an
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
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