Everyone seems to be talking about the MacBook Air, although you will not see me parting from my 160HDD GB MacBookPro. Incidentally, why do some of Apple’s new devices feel like a downgrade? The 16GB iPod Touch has nothing on my 60GB iPod. Anyway I digress. One of the less Read more…
Peter Jaszi, Professor at the American University Washington College of Law, has written to let us know of the release of a report on User Generated Content and copyright entitled Recut, Reframe, Recycle: Quoting Copyrighted Material in User-Generated Video. The study includes a blog. I’ll let the report’s press release Read more…
Various news sources have been reporting that the Beijing High Court has ruled in favour of popular search engine Baidu.com in a copyright infringement suit brought by major record companies. The dispute arose by the existence of a dedicated music search function called Baidu MP3, which allowed users to find Read more…
According to the BBC, Egypt will pass a new law which will require licence fees from anyone reproducing Egypt’s vast archaeological heritage, be it museum pieces or monuments. Although the article is not particularly clear on the details, the BBC interviewed Zahi Hawass, the chair of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Read more…
Canadian bloggers and IT Law gurus Michael Geist and Howard Knopf have pulled an amazing feat using Facebook and Youtube. They posted a video on Youtube opposing a DMCA-like reform to Ottawa’s copyright law, and then created a group on Facebook that opposed the amendments, which managed to get 28,000 Read more…
TV-Links, a website hosting links to TV Shows and movies, has been shut down, and the police have arrested the site’s administrator. According to FACT, the man was arrested “in connection with offences relating to the facilitation of copyright infringement on the Internet.” The man has been released pending further Read more…
(via BBC) Tyre and brake fitters Kwik-Fit have been sued in Edinburgh by the UK’s Performing Rights Society. The subject of the action is the fact that according to the plaintiffs, Kwik-Fit employers have been playing their radios loudly, where it can be heard by other employees and customers. This Read more…
Jammie Thomas, the Minnesota woman on trial for making music available in the Kazaa network, has lost her jury case and will have to pay the plaintiffs $220,000 USD (that’s $248,000 AUS). The Duluth jury held her liable for $9,250 for each of the 24 songs that were subject to Read more…
The trial of Jammie Thomas in Minnesota continues. Some very interesting revelations so far, including an RIAA spokesman claiming that making even one copy of a song is “stealing”, and the prosecution proving conclusively that the KaZaa login subject of the trial is the same that Thomas used in several Read more…
(Via Lilian Edwards) Two excellent spoofs on those annoying anti-piracy ads: One from Channel 4’s The IT Crowd. And one warning from history: