copyright issues

Interesting split from the court (I agree with the majority): The Supreme Court ruled Monday against the state of Georgia in a copyright lawsuit over annotations to its legal code, finding they cannot be copyrighted. Everyone involved in the case agreed that the text of state statutes could...

Right Wing Watch is a great resource for those trying to keep up on the various doings of America's political conservatives. And it seems said political conservatives don't like it archiving the things they say. David Takes Down Goliath -- Anti-Jesus Group Right Wing Watch Terminated by...

I had never given much thought to unlocking a cell phone for use internationally as I use a pre-paid Nokia (T-Mobile) phone that costs me about $100 per year. I entered the unlocking code a few years ago and found that it was already unlocked and should have worked in Thailand, but it didn't...

Can you see this video? when I try to see it, YouTube says: "This video contains content from UMG. It is not available in your country. Sorry about that." What is UMG? V6Sx75_Y1s4

Good news. The White House wont be supporting either SOPA or PIPA. Given reason? "While we believe that online piracy by foreign websites is a serious problem that requires a serious legislative response, we will not support legislation that reduces freedom of expression, increases...

The Internet is up in arms over it. But honestly most of the comments I get is "Internet being shut down!" "No more youtube!" etc etc. Can someone give a clear and no alarmist view of the bill and what will REALLY do?

Earlier this week the file locker site Mega upload released a promotional music video featuring stars such as Will.i.am and others showing support for the site which the RIAA claims is a haven for scum and villany. Shortly afterwards the video was pulled from Youtube at the request of Universal...

...or SOPA, is one of a couple of bills being considered in Congress that would provide legally enforceable methods for blocking access by US citizens to offending websites by preventing the DNS to resolve to the correct host based on IP address. Further, it allows ISPs to pro-actively block...

On the heels of COICA passing Senate Judiciary Committee we have 70 websites disappear off ICANN. One owner of a disappeared website complained: "My domain has been seized without any previous complaint or notice from any court!” the owner of Torrent-Finder explained TorrentFreak, “I firstly...

CTV Canterbury New Zealand ran some interviews with a self styled "spiritual life coach" Phyllis Brown on some new agey type topics. This series of interviews appear designed to promote Phyllis Brown's spiritual services. One particular video concerning Tarot cards received some very critical...

Title: Censorship of the Internet Takes Center Stage in "Online Infringement Bill" Author: Richard Esguerra URL: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/09/censorship-internet-takes-center-stage-online Opinions?

On the Queen's birthday and all (it was a rather nice flyover for once, which was nice). I'd like to hear your opinions on the law, those of you who have read it. Here's a copy for those who haven't. http://www.statutelaw.gov.uk/content.aspx?activeTextDocId=3699621 I'm still reading through...

In what has been termed a landmark decision (the first time a case like this has gone to judgment) the Australian Federal Court has decided that a major ISP, iinet, is not liable for it's members downloading movies and so on. It's significant in that all the major studios and a large Australian...

What are the copyright laws about the hardfire debates that are on google video and youtube? As far as I can tell...youtube and google leave the copyright issues up to the poster of the original material... Can I download these videos or upload them to play as a video in a "chat room" ? If I...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7605142.stm Unfortunate but probably inevitable.

I was searching Amazon.com for a TV series on DVD, which apparently has not been released yet. A link from the Amazon page brought up a site selling "home made" DVDs from various TV series that are currently unreleased. I don't imagine this is a legal thing to do, although the web site claims...

While people were busy moaning at Canada Israel finally updated it's 1911 based copyright system. The act is unfortunately written in a form of not English called Hebrew and can be found here: http://www.knesset.gov.il/Laws/Data/law/2119/2119.pdf I've not seen any full translations yet. As...

Does the JREF defend any trademark rights on the "Pigasus" flying pig symbol? I'm asking because my morning newspapaper today (The Philadelphia Inquirer) is dotted with teaser ads featuring a winged pig logo, rendered as a white on black silhouette. The copy of one reads "Who let the pigs out...

Copyright protection has mushroomed over the last three centuries. The duration of copyright is now ludicrous. In Britain the Copyright Act of 1842 introduced the idea of post mortem copyright protection; it established a copyright period of 42 years from the date of first publication or 7...

I just listened to the speech at this link http://randomfoo.net/oscon/2002/lessig/free.html I agree totally with what was being said. I am curious to hear some opinions from this forum

Hey all: I'm going to put together my own podcast and I need some title music. Since the topic of the podcast is going to be miniature wargaming, I was thinking of using either Holst's "Mars: Bringer of War" or Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture." The question is, what are the legalities of using...

A few weeks ago, I posted about how copyright laws can restrict new and old works. One example was the 80s documentary, Eyes On The Prize, which is functionally a lost work due to restrictions on footage used. There's even beed some talk about license holders restricting screenings of existing...

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20050117/DOCS17/TPEntertainment/Film Interesting look at how stringent copyright rules can kill current works, nix future ones.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=738&e=1&u=/ap/20041010/ap_on_bi_ge/copyright_lite "Think of it as "Copyright Lite," a compromise between the full protections of copyright law and placing a creative work entirely in the public domain. Under its framework, copyright holders can...

The FCC comment filing period for proposed new HDTV copy-protection standards is almost over. This would force all HDTV content providers to implement a "broadcast flag" in their digital signal, and force all HDTV manufacturers to include copy protection technology in their HDTV sets that would...

First RIAA, now Newsweek or Time Magazine? See the Story!

http://www.cleveland.com/tech/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/business/105662018152570.xml Corporate America at it's finest. :P While I don't approve of illegal copying of an artist's works, I also don't approve of this kind of searching. What's to stop them from doing searches of anyone's...