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I inaugurated this column in 2008 with an editorial called ‘‘Why I Copyfight’’, which talked about the tricky balance between creativity, culture, and the relationship between audiences and creators. These have always been hard subjects, and the Internet has made them harder still, because the thing that triggers copyright rules – copying – is an intrinsic part of the functioning of the Internet and computers. There’s really no such thing as ‘‘loading’’ a web-page – you make a copy of it. There’s really no such thing as ‘‘reading’’ a file off a hard-drive – you copy it into memory.
Entertainment & copyright
The estimated wealth of the entire world is about $60 trillion. 
We've covered plenty of copyright trolling operations, and the Copyright Enforcement Group is one of the earliest to show up in the US, though there are few details as to who is actually behind it. We recently have been in contact with someone... 
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Functions performed by computer programmes are not entitled to copyright protection, Europe's top court said on Wednesday, in a verdict that will allow developers greater freedom to...
One thing that we've seen even among authors who totally "get" that ebook pricing is out of control, is that if they have deals with traditional publishers, those publishers are never interested in offering low ebook prices, even if there's growing... 
In what appears to be the first action of its type since the RIAA abandoned its controversial anti-filesharing campaign, Internet users sharing music are again being targeted in the United States. 
Google's ambitious book-scanning program is foundering in the courts. Now a Harvard-led group is launching its own sweeping effort to put our literary heritage online. Will the Ivy League succeed where Silicon Valley failed? 
Der erste ACTA-Flyer des Digitale Gesellschaft e.V. ist fertig getextet und layoutet und geht bald in einer ersten kleinen Auflage in die ... 
Please, just hear me out on this one. Yes, the integrations look great, the songs just play. And this is perfect for music sites, music blogs, and publications like Digital Music News. But when it comes to artist pages, Spotify Play Buttons are mostly good for Spotify, not you, the artist. And after wading through months of intense debates involving Spotify's artist compensation (or lack thereof), this one doesn't seem that complicated. 
In a week where “reasonable practices” for cyberlockers were high on the agenda, file-hosting service Mediafire decided to block all incoming traffic from the popular media search engine FilesTube. Commenting on the move Mediafire’s co-founder explains that it was a logical step as their service was never intended to be indexed in public. 
Een blokkade van The Pirate Bay is zinloos, stelden de providers donderdag in de rechtbank, waar een door Stichting Brein aangespannen kort geding diende. UPC, KPN, Tele2, T-Mobile en Telfort willen de torrentsite niet blokkeren.
You may know the name Jimmy Iovine. He's the head of Interscope Records, one of Universal Music's most important subsidiaries (if not the most important one). Not surprisingly, Iovine has a bit of a history of being something of a...
With next week's vote on CISPA looming, the White House has made an official statement that implicitly criticizes the bill without mentioning it by name. 
China's music industry sings the blues over new copyright rulesReutersBy Michael Martina | BEIJING (Reuters) - New music copyright rules proposed by China threaten to roll back protection for musicians and record companies and hand the government ... |
New and tougher laws are always on the agendas of rightsholders. They tend to believe that through legislative change and the strict application of law the habits of millions of file-sharers can be changed. 
Dangerous_Minds writes "Drew Wilson of ZeroPaid has an interesting look at file-sharing. It all started with a review of a Phoenix study that was used to promote SOPA. Wilson says that the study was long on wild claims and short on fact.
We've been following the legal fight between SAS and World Programming Limited (WPL) for quite some time.
If further proof is needed that copyright trolls are only interested in money and couldn't care less about artists or their reputations, read on. 
Last century filesharing was a fringe hobby, only for geeks who were lucky enough to own a computer that could dial into the World Wide Web. 
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The folks at dajaz1, who know better than anyone how copyright stifles culture and free speech, send in the news that Robert Poindexter of The Persuaders is suing 50 Cent for copyright infringement over a sample on a free album he released in 2009. This is likely to end in settlement, with a payout to Poindexter, because 50 Cent isn't offering any defense beyond the fact that the album was free. 
AMSTERDAM - De Verenigde Staten (VS) hebben ervoor gezorgd dat de onderhandelingen over antipiraterijverdrag ACTA geheim bleven. Bovendien stuurt het land wel degelijk aan op nieuwe wetgeving. 
The inventor of the World wide Web had some choice things to say about legislation aiming to stop piracy at the expense of Internet freedom. 
As the demise of the Sopa anti-piracy act showed, established arguments for protecting the rights of content creators are almost impossible to apply to a digital world... 
By David Lowery (Copyright in the author, used by permission) What follows is based on my notes and slides from my talk at SF Music Tech Summit. I realize that I’m about to alienate some of... 
Torrenfreak covers The Pirate Bay's new "Promo Bay" service, which has been flooded by 5,000+ submissions from artists who want to have their work promoted on The Pirate Bay -- mostly musicians, but also writers like Paolo Coelho. |
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