Is it possible to create a culture for licensing news?
This is the question at the heart of a new project begun by The Associated Press, announced last April by AP CEO Tom Curley. Called The News Licensing Group, the AP, with its membership, has cre…
Technology has come a long way since 1841, but the copyright debate at the time was strikingly similar to what we’re witnessing today. 170 years ago a new copyright bill was being discussed in the United Kingdom, one that would extend the rights of book authors to sixty years after their death. While some favored the plan, some feared that this lengthy “copyright monopoly” would only succeed in increasing piracy,
Source: Piracy and Copyright Challenges in 1841 Mirror Those of Today
The legal media’s attention has been focused this past week on Supreme Court oral arguments in Golan v. Holder, an important copyright case involving the power of Congress to “restore” private rights in creative works that are already in the public dom…
A couple of weeks ago, the EU Council voted to extend the copyright term for sound recordings from 50 years to 70 years (with composers’ copyright protection already subsisting until 70 years after their death). This is good news for…
Apple Inc. v. Psystar Corp., — F.3d —, 2011 WL 4470623 (9th Cir. September 28, 2011) [PDF] Back in 2008, Apple sued Psystar for copyright infringement arising from Psystar’s manufacture and distribution of computers preloaded with copies of Mac OS X. Psystar lost at the trial court level, with the judge rejecting its argument that [...]
Last week the Online News Association’s annual conference came to Boston. Naturally, many prominent news organizations showed up, tchotchkes in tow, to woo attendees – including Reuters, MSNBC, NPR, and CNN among many others.
But of all the exh…
In its September 2011 meeting, the Faculty of Princeton University voted unanimously for a policy of open access to scholarly publications:
“The members of the Faculty of Princeton University strive to make their publications openly accessible to…
The draconian penalties for illegal downloaders under the U.S. Copyright Act were intended not just for commercial pirates, but for consumer-level infringers, the First Circuit ruled last week.
In the latest chapter of the saga of Joel Tenenbaum’s b…
First Time Videos v. Does 1-18, 2011 WL 4079177 (S.D. Indiana, September 13, 2011) Plaintiff owns the copyright in an adult film that a swarm of anonymous “Doe” BitTorrent users allegedly traded. So plaintiff filed suit for infringement in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana and issued subpoenas to the internet [...]
It’s been several months since we last checked up on Righthaven. How is everybody’s favorite copyright troll doing?
Well, they might be going bankrupt:
The Las Vegas copyright-trolling firm Righthaven told a Nevada federal judge Friday [S…