Archive for the 'Copyright' Category
American novelist Mark Helprin has a new book out called “Digital Barbarism” in which he defends – among other things – copyright extensions. This manifesto against the free culture movement seems to be a accumulation of insults and conservative claims on how culture should be produced and circulated.
For instance:
The vast bulk of this ["free culture"] [...]
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Tags: Book, Copyright, free culture, Lessig
Google executives face (ridiculously high) legal charges for failing to check user-generated content before it is made public on a website.
Check out this BBC article.
Take-down practices can and should be improved to respect people’s privacy but this is just another dumb legal argument that runs counter to the internet’s progressive potentialities.
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Yesterday at 5P.M, the French Constitutional Council – in charge of checking the conformity of legislation with the Constitution – rendered a groundbreaking decision regarding the highly controversial “three strikes law” (or graduated response), passed last month by Parliament to fight illegal downloading.
The law established a penalty amounting to the suspension of downloaders’ internet connection [...]
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Tags: Constitution, Copyright, Cultural industries, Europe, France, Human Rights, Internet, Media, Network, New Media
Copyright Gone Wrong
At the beginning of this year, the head of the European Commission’s Internal Market and Services Directorate General Charlie McCreevy announced his plan to extend copyright terms for performers and phonogram producers from 50 years today to 95 years (1). The Commission advances the argument that many works from ageing musicians dating back to the [...]
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Tags: Copyright, European Union, Music Industry, P2P, Politics
The French legislative bill aimed at granting a public agency the right to suspend people’s internet connection if they are suspected of copyright infringement has been turned down by the European Parliament, which resumed session earlier this week.
Voting on the telecom package – a piece of legislation that regulates the EU electronic communication sector – [...]
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Tags: Civil Liberties, European Union, Internet, Politics
If We Could Free Our Culture
I just finished Lawrence Lessig’s book Free Culture (2004) and it has made me angry. A law professor specialized in intellectual property, Lessig demonstrates that we are caught in a dangerous, reactionary discourse about intellectual property in the Net era. His sincere advocacy for a freer society deconstructs the key elements of the debate on [...]
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Tags: Intellectual Property, Lessig, Politics
What makes MySpace unique, along with other sites based on the same concept, such as Last.fm, is their unique and revolutionary service of popular culture broadcaster (so far, mainly music) relying on the technology of the Web 2.0. They link social networking and self-representation, and the prominent place of popular culture in identity formation and [...]
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Tags: Jenkins, Music Industry, Pop Culture, Social Networking
The battle that right-holders have been waging against P2P users has proved largely unsuccessful so far. In the US, the methods used by the recording industry’s lobby (RIAA) to track down “pirates” are put into question; in France, the penal sanctions provided by a 2006 Act on author’s rights have had no effect in stopping [...]
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a diary about how new technologies redefine the polis by felix treguer
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News from the Wired Polis- File-Sharing good for cultural diversity and business November 11, 2009
- Enforcement of IPR... ACTA not the way to go November 6, 2009
- Europe misses out on a full protection of Net freedoms November 5, 2009
- Telcos turned into the police of the Net? November 4, 2009
- New battle fronts in sight for Net neutrality November 2, 2009
- More spectrum for wireless Internet in Europe? October 31, 2009
- EU to overhaul online privacy rules October 27, 2009
