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May 17, 2013
Congressional Subcommittee Begins “Comprehensive Copyright Review”
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This week, the Intellectual Property and the Internet Subcommittee of the House Committee on the Judiciary began its "comprehensive review" of U.S. copyright law, kicking things off with a hearing that included test
May 13, 2013
Pirate Party Rep: Artists Don’t Have “the Right to Get Money”
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I suppose it should come as no surprise that Amelia Andersdotter, a member of Sweden's Pirate Party and the youngest member of the European Parliament, is hostile to the very idea of a music industry, but comments a
May 8, 2013
The Cons of a Strict “Loser Pays” Policy
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Over on Forbes.com today, Tim Worstall asks: {W}hy is the US near unique in not having a system whereby the loser picks up both sets of legal bills? His question comes in the context of thinking of ways to prevent c
April 10, 2013
Issuing a Take-Down Notice; Sometimes, Even if You Can, Maybe You Shouldn’t
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Given the services that DMCA Force provides, one might reasonably assume that I'm in favor of issuing DMCA take-down notices in response to any and all apparent online infringements on a copyrighted work; one would
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 11, 2013
Of ‘Good’ Lobbyists and ‘Bad’ Lobbyists
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Last month, I wrote about a pair of articles published by Forbes, one by Consumer Electronics Association President Gary Shapiro, and the other by National Music Publishers' Association CEO David Israelite. Both
March 8, 2013
Another Copyright Reform Website, More Detail This Time
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Earlier this week, I expressed disappointment in the lack of information to be found on FixCopyright.com, a website recently launched by copyright reform activist Derek Khanna. Today, I stumbled across another websi
January 18, 2013
A Pair of Highly Recommended Posts About Aaron Swartz
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So much has been written and said about the suicide of Reddit founder Aaron Swartz that I'm torn between wanting to add my two cents and thinking that everything of value (as well as a whole lot of no particular val
December 12, 2012
Google Adds More Detail to its Transparency Report
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In a blog post published yesterday by the search giant's Legal Director, Fred Von Lohmann, Google announced that it is now disclosing the number of scarpe jordan uomo URLs removed from its SERPs on a per-request bas
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