The furious debate surrounding the statutory instrument to amend the Copyright Act 2000 – dubbed the ‘Irish SOPA’ – until now has seen one group maintain a dignified silence.
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For years the software industry has trended toward ever more permissive licensing, to the point that today the GitHub developer crowd rejects formal licensing altogether. How can this end well? Delete the scoop?
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Spotify, not law enforcement, was key to lowering piracy and raising revenue in 2012 Delete the scoop?
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According to the EFF the situation is better - and worse than you think. Delete the scoop?
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Which brings us back to the empirical evidence on lawful alternatives and piracy rates. The fact that people eschew the black market when there is a legitimate alternative tells you that they're not thieves looking to steal.
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An anti-piracy company has found itself in the middle of a huge controversy. CIAPC, the company that had The Pirate Bay blocked by ISPs in Finland, tracked an alleged file-sharer and demanded a cash settlement.
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RIAA Prefers Customers Who Buy A Little To Pirates Who Buy A LotTechdirtBut the public spoke and the P2P finding went viral: the biggest pirates are the best customers. Delete the scoop?
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A federal lawsuit filed in Massachusetts could test the question of whether individuals who leave their wireless networks unsecured can be held liable if someone uses the network to illegally download copyrighted content. Delete the scoop?
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Stuart Dredge: Rovio's Mikael Hed tells music industry audience that embracing pirates can attract new fans... Delete the scoop?
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What's this all about? Long story short: the Irish government plans, before the end of January, to bring in a law which would allow Irish courts to block access to websites accused of infringing copyright (and possibly do other things as well). Delete the scoop?
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Paper by Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Koleman Strumpf (2009) which examines whether filesharing technology has undermined the incentives of authors and entertainment companies to create, market and distribute new works Delete the scoop?
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So much for patent reform. Two women are suing the maker of Care Bears, saying the toys violate a patent they hold for a method of playing hide and seek. Delete the scoop?
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There's a recent tradition of developers screwing with pirates—from releasing enormous, immortal pink scorpions on them, to booby trapping their games with glitches when they get cracked. Delete the scoop?
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In a case with broad implications for the art world, a court decided largely in favor of the appropriation artist, who made use of work by the photographer Patrick Cariou without permission. Delete the scoop?
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The timeless plastic bricks of LEGO can be built into predetermined items such as a car or house but can also be formed into any shape, the options limited only by the creativeness of its builder.
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Neelie Kroes has emerged as perhaps the most Net-savvy politician in the European Commission, with her repeated calls for a new approach to copyright in Europe that takes cognizance of the shift to a digital world. Delete the scoop?
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Patrick Mureithi, a Kenyan filmmaker, is hoping to show his documentary on post-election violence and rebuilding in his home country, and is raising travel funds via Indiegogo. Most of this $5,000 will go directly to travel expenses, as Mureithi is counting on some of his countrymen to handle the rest.
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Without those assurances, there would arguably be no incentive to innovate; why invest money and effort on a breakthrough that anyone could then take and sell? ... But over the years patents became much more than just protection.
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The universities of Western Ontario and Toronto have signed a deal with Access. Copyright that allows for surveillance of faculty ecorrespondence Delete the scoop?
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Last summer, we wrote about a simply ridiculous lawsuit from a photographer, Janine Gordon, against another photographer, Ryan McGinley, claiming copyright infringement for taking photos that were at best marginally similar. Delete the scoop?
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The furious debate surrounding the statutory instrument to amend the Copyright Act 2000 – dubbed the ‘Irish SOPA’ – until now has seen one group maintain a dignified silence.
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How the entertainment industry is growing and growing -infographic Delete the scoop?
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Petition against the signing into Irish law of “S.I. No. of 2011 European Communities (Copyright and Related Rights) Regulations 2011." aka SOPAIreland, 70,000 signatures by Jan 29th Delete the scoop?
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By now, you’ve probably grown tired of the seemingly endless lawsuits that have been launched in the mobile industry. Delete the scoop?
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