Monday, June 1, 2009
Justice Department Sides with Cablevision Against Hollywood
Just what, exactly, are all those Hollywood types getting in return for their investment in Barack Obama’s presidential bid?
Monday, May 25, 2009
Copyright Meets a New Worthy Foe: The Real-Time Web
Copyright law wasn’t written with today’s content consumption in mind.
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Internet Archive Founder Questions Google Books Settlement
Will the settlement agreement between Google’s Book Search Library Project and authors and publishers put Google in monopoly territory?
That’s the argument that Brewster Kahle, co-founder of the Internet Archive, made in an op-ed in the Washington Post, in which he writes that the settlement “provides a new and unsettling form of media consolidation.”
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
If you can’t buy it legally, of course you’ll download it
As someone who produces copyrighted content, I suppose I should be cheering at the Pirate Bay verdict.
Thursday, April 2, 2009
Billion Dollar Charlie Takes on the RIAA
Charlie Nesson isn’t one for small gestures–the Harvard law professor is known as “Billion Dollar Charlie,” after all, and he was one of the lead lawyers in the famous industrial dumping case that became the book (and then the movie), “A Civil Action.”
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Who’s Messing With the Google Book Settlement? Hint: They’re in Redmond, Washington
Last October, Google settled the lawsuit brought against it by book publishers and authors concerning its massive book-scanning project.
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
As Rights Clash on YouTube, Some Music Vanishes
In early December, Juliet Weybret, a high school sophomore and aspiring rock star from Lodi, Calif., recorded a video of herself playing the piano and singing “Winter Wonderland,” and she posted it on YouTube. Weeks later, she received an email message from YouTube: Her video was being removed….
Monday, March 16, 2009
Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable
The problem newspapers face isn’t that they didn’t see the Internet coming. They not only saw it miles off, they figured out early on that they needed a plan to deal with it, and during the early 90s they came up with not just one plan but several.
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Neil Young: Failed Warner/YouTube Negotiations “Penalized” Artists
Neil Young has gone on the record in support of music publishing powerhouse Warner Bros. Reprise’s policy deleting and muting its artists’ videos on YouTube, after negotiations between Google and Warner broke down.
Friday, December 12, 2008
YouTube Is Not So Wild Anymore
On some bright, parched morning back in the Old West, folks must have heard grumbling as a boy nailed a list of new town laws to the wall of the saloon. And when they saw the sheriff and his fresh-faced deputies looking on with a satisfied grin, that’s probably when they knew the West wasn’t going to be so wild anymore.
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
An Ethical Question Involving eBooks
I recently purchased a short story from Fictionwise, which was not DRM’ed, so I could easily get it into a form where I could read it on my Sony eReader. Thanks to that short story, I was introduced to an author, and a character, which I found very engaging.
Friday, November 7, 2008
Lights, Camera, YouTube: Feature Films Coming to the World’s Video Portal?
Watch out, distributors of premium content online, a 900-pound gorilla named YouTube just crept into the room. For the past few years, the service has become far and away the world’s most popular online video platform on the backs of its user-generated content and often legally questionable copyrighted material.
Monday, September 22, 2008
Comcast Discloses Throttling Practices–BitTorrent Targeted
Comcast came clean with the Federal Communications Commission late Friday, detailing how it throttled and targeted peer-to-peer traffic–maneuvers it has repeatedly denied.
The cable concern said it indeed hit “particular protocols that were generating disproportionate amounts of traffic.”
Friday, September 5, 2008
Can You Own the Story of a Band?
Here’s a question for you: Can someone own the copyright on the history of a musical group? We may find out as a lawsuit moves forward concerning the “ownership” of the story of a famous band.
It’s Time for a New Terms of Service Regime
Yesterday’s flare-up about the Terms of Service for Google’s new browser Chrome, followed by the company’s rapid backtracking on the demands it was making of users, left many people wondering about Google ToS in general.
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