This article effectively puts to rest any possibility that the UK copyright extension proposal is anything but an effort to keep enriching the music industry, not aging artists who failed to properly establish their 401ks. Not that we really believed otherwise, but Prof. Martin Kretschmer writes in the Financial Times that “our own studies of [...]
David from Mobility Today sent a note about a takedown notice he received over a YouTube video where he reviews an iPhone case from Zagg. Apparently a “third party,” which David strongly suspects was Apple, complained about the use of infringing material in the video. David says Zagg used the review video on its own [...]
Egypt is proposing an expansion to its intellectual property laws that would effectively copyright the Pyramids and the Sphinx. And to think, I was getting worked up about a silly old 45-year extension of music copyright laws in the UK. From the article:
“Depending on one’s vantage point, the push for new laws is folly in [...]
A European Union official is proposing extending music copyrights from 50 years to 95 years, the same as the U.S. EU Commissioner Charlie McCreevy says artists who recorded songs in the 1950s or 1960s are in now in danger of losing what could be “their sole pension.”
That’s kind of an interesting question: on the one [...]
First: apologies for the long delay between posts. I was on vacation.
Now, to the topic at hand: should ISPs be forced to monitor traffic on their networks in order to prevent piracy?
Internet service providers are increasingly the target of the frustrated entertainment industry, which sees no effective technology solution to the problem of piracy. They’re [...]