The Turnitin lawsuit has run its course at the first court and an appeal hasn’t been filed yet. It played out differently than what I expected. First off, Turnitin’s use was considered transformative and fair use. That’s not a huge surprise. Also, the fact that a user could enter in a Shakespearian quotation and receive [...]
Trent Reznor just released the first CD of his new album for free. (Obligatory mirror for my torrent-throttled friends: hosted in Detroit, official torrent: tracked by The Pirate Bay)The full album is up for a digital download for $5. Great! Well, everyone else thought so too, and his site went down under load. He posted [...]
This morning two of my trains of thought just collided. Part of the problem with DRM is that it doesn’t allow for any uses but preconceived ones. If I were to try to make a tool that given a small video clip would suggest where it came from, I wouldn’t be able to do that. [...]
I just finished reading over an Ars Technica article regarding the copyright situation in Canada. The title? “Canadian labels: We get “absolutely zero credit” for not suing fans.” From the article, He points out that Canadian labels have not chosen to sue their fans, but then goes plaintive for a moment, saying, “We get absolutely [...]
Remember the levy that was collected on ipods, then refunded, then argued over? It might be coming back according to a decision by the Copyright Board of Canada. The decision may still be appealed. Again, Michael Geist has the story. The decision continues by stating that this interpretation is consistent with the intent of the [...]
At the last Copynight we brought up Bill C-60 again. Ren from ORC/EFF Canada was there. He mentioned that towards the end of the life of the bill ORC was pretty close to letting it go. Notice-and-notice was acceptable, and it wouldn’t have been illegal to own circumvention devices, only the use of circumvention devices [...]
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