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| Jul 12, 2006 | MySpace – The (Almost) Premier Dating Site | Written by Ken Yarmosh, a Read/WriteWeb
Guest Blogger
On average, I hear a
Match.com commercial on the radio about once a day. In referring to their user base,
their catch phrase goes something like, “there are over 15 million reasons to us... |
| Dec 20, 2005 | Web 2.0 WorkGroup Expands to 25 Members | The Web 2.0 WorkGroup continues its expansion with the addition of three awesome new bloggers – Ben Barren, Stowe Boyd and Steve Rubel. Robert Scoble joined last week. It’s becoming an increasingly fun place to hang out, even if two of our ... |
| Dec 13, 2005 | Scary Questions: Can Patents Be Socially Responsible? | Alan Wexelblat over at Copyfight has a post where he’s pointing to an article from Berkeley wondering if patents can also be socially responsible. What’s scary about this is the assumption implicit in the question: patents are the antithesi... |
| Dec 8, 2005 | Should ISPs Be The Decision Makers On Giving Up Your Anonymity? | We’ve been staying out of the big Wikipedia debate lately, because it really seems like the same old thing. Some information in Wikipedia is false, even malicious, and it can be changed by anyone. That’s not new — and every time someone dis... |
| Dec 5, 2005 | Fair Use At Risk | Seth Finkelstein writes “The Free Expression Policy Project asks: “Are increasingly heavy assertions of control by copyright and trademark owners smothering fair use and free expression? The product of more than a year of research, [the rep... |
| Nov 22, 2005 | Nearly One Third Of DMCA Takedown Notices Are Improper | It’s no secret that plenty of companies have misused the DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act, for those who haven’t been paying attention) mostly for anti-competitive reasons, rather than a legitimate complaint about infringement. Howeve... |
| Nov 7, 2005 | Monday morning Apple links | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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There are 83 freaking web browsers available for OS X.
Podner,
the simple video to iPod converter, has updated to version 1.0.1... |
| Nov 3, 2005 | Would It Be Impossible To Create The Web Today? | Copyfight points to a wonderful column from James Boyle celebrating fifteen years of the World Wide Web by noting that, if we tried to build the web from scratch today, it’s unlikely it would work very well. The reasoning is that the big co... |
| Oct 17, 2005 | Rethinking Intellectual Property Laws? Such Heresy! | It’s no secret that we believe that current intellectual property laws are a problem — not because of any particular philosophy, but because we see the real harm that many of those laws are doing in holding back innovation, which is the cor... |
| Oct 10, 2005 | How The Recording Industry's Obsession On DRM Made Apple So Powerful | Oh how we all love those unintended consequences that come back to bite those who only think one level deep. It’s no secret that, lately, the recording industry is pissed off at Apple for not raising prices on iTunes songs (something we sti... |
| Sep 7, 2005 | Wal-Mart Jumps Into The Copyright Question Concerning Photo Reprinting | Earlier this year, there was a lot of talk following a few news stories about various photo processing locations that were refusing to make prints of photos that “looked too good” for fear that they could be violating copyright. It was a si... |
| Sep 6, 2005 | Bad Trends: End User License Agreements On Tangible Goods | It appears that the folks making tangible goods have realized what a sweet deal the makers of digital goods are getting with things like the DMCA and click-wrap EULAs. So, they’re doing what they can to set up the same situation for tangibl... |
| Aug 29, 2005 | Judge In RIAA v. Mom Case Sees The Issues | Recently, the story of the woman fighting the RIAA over the lawsuit filed against her for file sharing has been getting plenty of attention. When we originally wrote about it, we pointed out many of the issues suggesting that anyone who fig... |
| Aug 29, 2005 | Architects Upset About Copyright Infringement? | Please, please, make it stop. Copyfight points out that architects are the latest bunch to get all worked up about people “infringing” on their copyrights. While building design has only been included under copyright protection for about fi... |
| Aug 25, 2005 | Turns Out You Can't Use The DMCA To Stop 3rd Party Repairs | Looks like the courts have given yet another victory against blatant anti-competitive misuses of the DMCA. In the latest case, the company StorageTek used the DMCA to stop a third-party provider from repairing StorageTek equipment. If you n... |
| Aug 11, 2005 | Update – Technorati (being Acquired?) | Company: Technorati
Previous Post: June 20, 2005 Technorati Aquisition Rumors
A post today by B.L. Ochman ignited rumors that Technorati may be acquired in the near future:
Technorati About to Be Sold
Here’s a tip I was given this morning f... |
| Aug 9, 2005 | Profile – MSN Filter | Company: MSN Filter
Launched: August 2, 2005 Overview:
MSN Filter is the latest MSN product release from Microsoft. Filter is a blogging network similar to Weblogs, Inc. (profile) and Gawker – meaning they have hired bloggers to blog about ... |
| Aug 8, 2005 | Google’s hissy fit about CNET | Perhaps you’ve seen the reports about the flap between Google and CNET, the result of which is that Google has decided not to talk with CNET for a year.
We are surprised that it came to this, because CNET has reported more closely — and mos... |
| Aug 8, 2005 | Online Anonymity Must Be Stopped? | If you thought by now the idea of online anonymity was settled, you’d be wrong. In an addition to a post on Copyfight, Donna Wentworth points to an article in the UK with someone from an IT security company claiming that “The ability to rem... |
| Aug 7, 2005 | Profile – Zopa | Company: Zopa
Launched: March 2005
Status: Funded by Benchmark Capital and Wellington Partners
Location: London Overview:
Zopa, based in London, is a lending network. Zopa synidicates loans requested by “borrower” members out to “lender” me... |
| Aug 6, 2005 | Update – AttentionTrust | AttentionTrust (TechCrunch Profile) has started to approve websites, and Steve was nice enough to send our’s today.
Your application for the AttentionTrust has been accepted. Your name will now appear on the list of supporters on www.attent... |
| Aug 2, 2005 | Jyve | Company: Jyve
Launched: July 2005
Location: Virtual – people in Silicon Valley, Toronto, Montreal, New York What is it?
Jyve is a set of applications that enhance Skype. I eventually had to tear myself away from the site because I kept find... |
| Aug 1, 2005 | Meetro | Update 9/29/05: Wired published an excellent article on Meetro today.
Company: Meetro
Location: Chicago What is it?
Meetro is an instant messaging service that works both as a stand alone client and also integrates with other IM services (A... |
| Jul 30, 2005 | Web 2.0 This Week (July 24 – 30) | It’s been a fun-filled Web 2.0 week, capped off with BlogHerCon today. Good stuff below.
1. BlogHer Conference on Saturday, July 30, 2005
The BlogHer Conference ’05 is today, at Techmart in Santa Clara.
“This flagship event is open to all b... |
| Jul 25, 2005 | links for 2005-07-26 | Open Tags: Made For A Distributed World: Corante > Get Real >
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| Jul 25, 2005 | Web 2.0 Weekly Wrap-up, 18-24 July 2005 | sponsored by:
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| Jul 23, 2005 | Web 2.0 This Week (July 17 – 23) | It’s been a helluva week. Myspace got bought for over half a billion dollars. Podcasting died (but not really), and an important development in beer tapping technology was announced. Oh yeah, we spent the week at Always On and learned a lot... |
| Jul 23, 2005 | Profile – AttentionTrust | Update: For an excellent writeup of Attention Trust, see Seth Goldstein’s essay here.
Company: AttentionTrust
Launched: Today (I believe)
What is it?
Attention Trust is a project led by Steve Gillmor and others that is the next evolution of... |
| Jul 20, 2005 | Silicon Valley’s latest dating start-up: Engage | Updated
The PayPal co-founders who just set up a new VC firm have just announced their first investment.
It is an undiclosed amount into Oakland-based Engage.
Engage, as we write in today’s Mercury News (or just keep reading), is a new kind... |
| Jul 12, 2005 | Internet Archive Finally Sued; Plenty Of Questions Raised | Exactly one year ago, today, we wrote about a lawsuit where the lawyers on one side used the Internet Archive to find certain web pages that could be seen as incriminating evidence in the case. The lawyers on the other side were none too pl... |
| Jul 11, 2005 | Monday morning links | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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Jamie Zawinski, a recent switcher, put out a request to find out the format of Mail's 'flag' data that it stores... |
| Jul 11, 2005 | Even News Providers Can't Link To A Site Deemed Illegal? | Just as you thought folks in places like Europe had worked out that linking, by itself, should never be illegal, it seems that not everyone is so clued in. The latest example is in Germany, which has always had problems with the idea of lin... |
| Jul 5, 2005 | Profile: TagCloud | Service: TagCloud
Launched: June 2005
Location: Bellwood, PA
Status: Corporate name is IonZoft
What is it?
TagCloud is a service that generates a “tagcloud” (see below) based on provided URLs or feeds. A tagcloud is basically a grouping of ... |
| Jul 5, 2005 | Profile: Venture Voice | Company: Venture Voice
Launched: June 8, 2005
What is it?
Venture Voice produces podcasts of interviews with interesting people.
In their own words, “What does it take to start a successful business? We’re working the phone to find the an... |
| Jul 5, 2005 | Broadcast Flag Supporters Begin Operation Obfuscation | Just when you’d thought that the supporters of the broadcast flag had gone about as far as they could lately when they failed to sneak the broadcast flag into law by adding it as a rider amendment no politician would read, we find out that ... |
| Jun 30, 2005 | Historic BBC Programs Rescued From Those Evil Home Copies | The entertainment industry has made a sport of demonizing the perfectly legal act of making personal copies of copyrighted content, from Jack Valenti’s denial of fair use to record labels’ overzealous CD protection schemes. So it’s interest... |
| Jun 29, 2005 | Yahoo My Web 2.0 | Yahoo has a beta “Social Search Engine” called (woo!) My Web 2.0. According to the Yahoo Search Blog, it “enables people to search the expertise of their friends and community”. It hooks into Yahoo 360 (which opened up to the general public... |
| Jun 27, 2005 | A New Role Of Journalists? Teaching Everyone How To Do Journalism | Whatever your opinion of the concept of “citizen journalism” might be, you can bet pretty good money that it won’t be going away anytime too soon. However, the bigger question may be how traditional journalism and citizen journalism work to... |
| Jun 22, 2005 | Copyright Czar Wants To Make A Big Change To Copyright Law | The official Register of Copyrights for the US, Marybeth Peters, has shown a history of always pushing much stricter copyright laws that would, in many ways, clamp down on innovation in the creative space. Often, it’s seemed like she didn’t... |
| Jun 21, 2005 | The Fight Between Sharing Culture And Owning Culture | It seems that museums are finally starting to realize that the digital age represents a real opportunity for them to reach many new people by digitizing their offerings and sharing the culture they represent across a much wider audience tha... |
| Jun 20, 2005 | LA Times Surprised That People Are Jerks Online | It wasn’t hard to predict that the LA Times’ experiment with combining editorials and wikis would run into problems pretty quickly. However, early on, it sounded as if the experiment was actually going surprisingly well. That lasted just a ... |
| Jun 20, 2005 | How Far Out Do Content Creators Look? | One of the ongoing issues in talking about copyright extension is whether or not it really incentivizes creators any more to know that their works will be protected fifty years past their death or seventy-five. A reasonable argument can be ... |
| Jun 15, 2005 | Wikis And Reporters: Like Oil And Water | Apparently, wikis and many newspaper writers just don’t mix. You may recall my run-in last year with a Syracuse newspaper writer who appeared to misunderstand Wikipedia. In an ensuing email conversation with the reporter he told me that Wik... |
| Jun 14, 2005 | Watch This Commercial Or You Might Miss A Spectacular Car Crash! | It’s no surprise that TV producers are coming up with more creative methods to get people to not fast forward through commercials in an age of TiVo. We’ve written about replacing recorded commercials with more relevant commercials, pop up a... |
| Jun 14, 2005 | Yet Another Ratings System That Won't Work | Ah, ratings systems. The last bastion of bureaucrats trying to control the spread of “mature” content. Apparently this phenomenon isn’t limited to the US. Ernest Miller points to a story about a new South Korean law that requires online vid... |
| Jun 13, 2005 | Even Book Publishers Are Cracking Down On Pre-Release Copies? | We’ve heard plenty of stories about how the movie industry was freaking out about sending out “screener” copies of DVDs for the Academy Awards leading them to do things like send special DVDs that can only be played in special players or ba... |
| Jun 10, 2005 | Brazilian Plans To Ignore US Intellectual Property Laws: Trade Dispute Or Saving | While it’s likely that this is just a lot of posturing before a diplomatic resolution between the US and Brazil, it may pay to watch what the Brazilian government does in the near future. Brazil made some news last week for its strong suppo... |
| Jun 7, 2005 | Who Owns Your Wedding Photographs? | A month ago, we wrote that the business model of the wedding photographer was changing thanks to technology. What we didn’t realize was that photo printing studios fear of copyright violations was holding it back. There’s been quite a discu... |
| Jun 6, 2005 | Will Apple Sue CNET Over Intel Chip Leak? | One of the points that many people have made against Apple in their lawsuits against various rumor sites is that Apple would never sue a more mainstream publication for publishing the same sort of rumor. So, here’s the test. On Friday, it w... |
| Jun 3, 2005 | Is The Concept Of The Channel Over? | The analogy that RSS is like “TiVo for the web” has been used quite often, but Ernest Miller is taking the discussion a step further by looking at in in the other direction. He notes that, despite the old prediction that there would be 500 ... |
| May 26, 2005 | Billboard Reporter Suggests The Creative Commons Can Kill? | We missed this one earlier in the week, so thanks to Copyfight for bringing back some attention to a bizarre and misleading story from Billboard magazine discussing Creative Commons. As Larry Lessig points out, most of the article seems to ... |
| May 26, 2005 | Music Clubs Get To Set Their Own Royalty Rates? | We already know that all this talk from the recording industry about how they’re really out to “protect the livelihood of musicians” is a lie. Musicians seem to be figuring out that they can do just fine without the traditional recording in... |
| May 25, 2005 | P2P Company Touts Useless Copyright Infringement Insurance | Two things about file sharing are certain: 1) The spate of RIAA lawsuits against file sharers probably won’t end anytime soon, and 2) this probably won’t stop lots of people from sharing music online. One P2P company is trying to capitalize... |
| May 25, 2005 | Senate Echo Chamber On Intellectual Property | You had to know something like this would happen when the Senate put Orrin Hatch in charge of writing copyright laws. Senator Hatch, of course, is the guy who originally wanted to outlaw the iPod and TiVo with his INDUCE Act, and the guy wh... |
| May 13, 2005 | Microsoft Gets Into The IP Propaganda Game | Apparently it’s not just the MPAA who’s trying to brainwash school children with very one-side discussions on intellectual property issues. Microsoft is now getting into the game as well. According to today’s NTK, Microsoft is running a “co... |
| May 13, 2005 | Making Copyrighted Material Available Is Not Distributing | While it may seem like a fairly minor legal point, a dismissal of a request for summary judgment in the Napster investment lawsuit may actually turn out to be quite important. Judge Marilyn Patel notes that the right of distribution (which ... |
| May 12, 2005 | Record Labels Using Intellectual Property Claims To Stop Ringtone Competition | When the recording industry jumped headfirst into the market for ringtones, they did so with their usual excessive, oblivious glee at finding another source of revenue. So maybe it’s no surprise that now they might be getting a little anti-... |
| May 12, 2005 | Broadband Via Gas Lines? | More choices for broadband are always a good thing, but too many new companies come out with claims of a new broadband system, without any proof that it works in real life. We’ve seen this repeatedly with broadband over powerlines, which at... |
| May 11, 2005 | Google acquires Dodgeball | This just in: Google has acquired Dodgeball.com, the New York-based mobile social networking site. Some details here at the Dodgeball site. Google tells us it’s not commenting on the deal, “and (we) don’t have any announced plans for it.” F... |
| May 10, 2005 | Damn That Constitution! Free Speech Mucks Up Everything! | There have been a bunch of stories lately about the various attempts by state governments to ban the sale of violent video games to minors. Of course, in the past, similar laws have been tossed out for being unconstitutional. Apparently, to... |
| May 9, 2005 | Hilary Rosen: Consumer Rights Defender?!? | Remember Hilary Rosen? She ran the RIAA through a series of disastrous moves, including its decision to sue individuals and also in backing legislation specifically designed to take away consumer rights. Of course, now that she’s outside of... |
| May 9, 2005 | Feds Hesitant To Be Hollywood's Enforcers | While it’s not entirely clear why Hollywood needs the FBI to help it fight its personal battles against business model obsolescence by going after file sharers, last year the Department of Justice decided it was worth declaring war on file ... |
| May 6, 2005 | Broadcast Flag Mandate Outside The FCC's Authority | This isn’t over yet, but the news is trickling out that the Court of Appeals has decided today that the FCC had no authority to mandate the broadcast flag. It’s likely that more details are forthcoming about the ruling (the initial Reuters ... |
| Apr 26, 2005 | Radio Promoters Sue Universal Over Payola Scam | For the past fifty years, the way things get done in the recording industry often involves under the table payments. This isn’t new, and the fact is that, despite it being “banned,” payola scams are still about the only way to get a song on... |
| Apr 12, 2005 | How Dare You Share The Public Domain! You're Fired! | It appears that, once again, the entertainment industry’s efforts to educate everyone on their distorted view of intellectual property law is causing some problems. According to Copyfight, a radio host was recently fired for airing material... |
| Apr 5, 2005 | Judge Knocks EULAs Back A Bit | Software “end user license agreements” (EULAs) have received plenty of attention over the years for a variety of problems associated with them. First off, most EULAs are non-negotiable, which has some wondering how valid they can be as a co... |
| Apr 4, 2005 | Did Starbucks Tell An Art Project About Starbucks Not To Use Its Name? | This one seems odd, and there’s not enough evidence here to know how true the story is (or what the details behind it are). However, Copyfight has noticed a blog post about an online “art project” to show a comparison of the locations of lo... |
| Apr 4, 2005 | Sharing Music Is A Cultural Thing | This seems somewhat obvious, of course, but it’s still worth mentioning. Just as some are noticing that MGM seems to have accidentally admitted that ripping your own CDs is perfectly legal, Wired Magazine is running a piece from a Sonic You... |
| Mar 23, 2005 | Getting List Spam To Go With Your Friend Spam | This has been happening way too often lately. While “friend spam” is all too common, where a friend starts spamming you with annoying forwards, now people are complaining about “list spam” where people you meet put you on various mailing li... |
| Mar 15, 2005 | Trying To Make Website Annotation Cool Again | Website annotation software isn’t new at all. It’s been around for years — though, it hasn’t taken off very much. In the late 90s, lots of folks were talking about ThirdVoice which allowed you to annotate pages, which made lots of web publi... |
| Mar 8, 2005 | How The RIAA Does Math: Why You Might Be A $50 Million Felon | Yesterday, in discussing the odd case of a teen convicted under Arizona state laws for unauthorized copying, we wondered about some of the details — including the $50 million claim pinned to the material on his hard drive in early versions ... |
| Feb 25, 2005 | An Example Of Free Data Creating A Booming Industry | It’s certainly not a new idea to point out that making certain things free can have tremendous benefits in both business and society, but it’s always good to have another example. Copyfight points to an interesting Financial Times article f... |
| Feb 17, 2005 | Tatto Artist Sues NBA For Showing His Artwork Without Compensation | The examples of ridiculous misuses of intellectual property law seem to be coming fast and furious these days. The latest is that a tattoo artist who did the tattoo on one player’s arm is suing the NBA, claiming a violation of his copyright... |
| Jan 26, 2005 | Wouldn't It Be Nice If You Could Correct The Encyclopedia Britannica? | You may recall that we somehow got involved in a bizarre battle over Wikipedia, when I got into a discussion with a reporter who told me that Wikipedia was “outrageous,” “repugnant” and “dangerous,” mainly because it’s not reviewed by “prof... |
| Jan 24, 2005 | Web 2.0 Weekly Wrap-up, 16-22 January 2005 | Some of the Web 2.0 trends and talk I tracked this week… accompanied by some dodgy
Austin Powers subheaders. Tagalicious, baby, yeah!
Flickr and del.icio.us made tagging cool, now every social software app is doing it.
Technorati, The Robot... |
| Jan 17, 2005 | How Much For That Domain Name In The Window? | In what absolutely must be a publicity stunt, the owner of the domain picturephone.com somehow seems to think it can sell that domain for $1 million. This brings back memories of when business.com was sold for $7.5 million in one of the mor... |
| Nov 22, 2004 | Fair Use Costs $350 According To Radiohead | This story seems a bit odd (though, it’s well written and amusing), but, according to Copyfight, the writer of Planet Simpson, a book about the popular TV show, had to pay $350 to quote some lyrics in the book by the band Radiohead. He didn... |
| Nov 10, 2004 | Gettin’ Paid: A Future for Content Creators? | UPDATE 12/11/04: An interesting conversation has developed in the comments to this post, spurred on by Phil Jones who disagreed with my position. Joshua, Liam and Matt Scofield also contributed thoughtful comments that are well worth readin... |
| Nov 8, 2004 | Trademark Resolution: Postal Service To Promote The Postal Service | For all the stories we hear about ridiculous trademark lawsuits and cease & desist letters, here’s an interesting twist. Copyfight is pointing to a NY Times article that talks about the innovative way the US Postal Service settled a tra... |
| Oct 26, 2004 | Court Slaps Down Lexmark For DMCA Misuse | We’ve written in the past about the case of Lexmark against a company named Static Control that was trying to make competing ink cartridges that would work in Lexmark printers. Lexmark claimed that Static was violating the DMCA by circumven... |
| Oct 24, 2004 | Consumer content | The self-publishing era — whether it be blogs or sharing your photos online — is blooming in so many different ways, it’s hard to keep up. Today we learned from Steve Rubel that Amazon.com is encouraging its customers to post photos of them... |
| Oct 18, 2004 | Fair Use Is For Suckers, According To HBO | It looks like HBO is the latest in the entertainment world to decide that their own customers shouldn’t be able to make use of their own fair use rights. They’re now going to be blocking off your ability to copy programs. You’ll be able to ... |
| Oct 7, 2004 | To Induce Or Not To Induce? | If you’ve been reading Ernest Miller’s The Importance Of… site this week, you’d have the inside scoop on just how Senator Hatch is working to get this bill passed. Staying true to his original statements about how even if the bill is bad fo... |
| Oct 1, 2004 | And Then… A Bad DMCA Decision | Well, if you were happy about the news of a good DMCA decision in the Diebold case a few hours ago, it’s time to get upset again. Another court has made a very questionable DMCA ruling in the BNETD case, where some developers reverse engine... |
| Sep 16, 2004 | Earthlink Launches Standards-Based P2P Network? | While ISPs were perhaps the one entity that benefited the most from file sharing, recently they’ve been very hostile to the concept — mostly due to being inundated with take down letters from the entertainment industry. However, Earthlink s... |
| Sep 3, 2004 | Talking About The Latest Digital Music Store Messes | Over at IT Conversations, Ernest Miller has is running a new web-based radio show called “The Importance of… Law and IT.” The latest show (the second one he’s done) talks about Apple v. Real v. Microsoft in the digital music download store ... |
| Sep 1, 2004 | Court Opens Garage Doors, But Sets Murky Precedent | The Court of Appeals has upheld an earlier ruling saying that it’s not a violation of the DMCA to create garage door openers that get around manufacturer controls designed to force buyers to go back to the original company for replacement o... |
| Aug 20, 2004 | JibJab Wins? This Parody Is Available For You And Me | According to Ernest Miller, the latest unconfirmed rumor is that Ludlow Music, the owners of the rights on Woody Guthrie’s music have backed down and settled the case concerning whether or not JibJab’s use of the song The Land Was Made For ... |
| Aug 18, 2004 | Induce Act Compromise Plan To Be Written By Those Who Think Its Too Weak | Back when Senator Hatch held his hearing about the Induce Act, he said he wanted to work with those who had concerns about the bill to come up with a compromise. Of course, what he actually was saying was that they were going to shove this ... |
| Aug 5, 2004 | State Politicians Don't Understand P2P Either | What is it with the difficulty politicians seem to have understanding what a P2P file sharing network is, and why none of the networks have control over the content being shared? The latest is that a group of 40 states have teamed up to wri... |
| Jul 30, 2004 | Ditching Copy Protection Increases Profits… For Unpopular Artists | Ernest Miller points to a very interesting study on the impact of copy protection on profits for online music stores selling downloads. The study finds that the optimal (most profits) amount of copy protection is none in cases where a band ... |
| Jul 28, 2004 | Are TV Networks Inducing Infringement? | Ernest Miller writes “Techdirt has already noted the copyright controversy over JibJab‘s version of “This Land is Your Land.” Some say the flash animation is protected parody, others infringing satire. Now the Home Recording Rights Coalitio... |
| Jul 25, 2004 | Whoa! | Jeff Jarvis and Clay Shirkey are piling on Seth Godin’s Change This before Seth and his team of talented interns can even get started.
This feels to me like convicting the criminal before he even committed the crime.
I say let’s see what Ch... |
| Jul 22, 2004 | Copyright Office Endorses INDUCE Act | Earlier this week, in looking through the list of speakers at the INDUCE Act Hearings, Ernest Miller noted that the first on the list, Marybeth Peters, Register of Copyrights for the US Copyright Office, has “never seen an extension of copy... |
| Jul 19, 2004 | Horror Of Horrors: Rock Music To Hit The Public Domain In Europe | While the US locks up copyrighted works for longer than could possibly be reasonable thanks to our friends at the Walt Disney Company and the Sonny Bono “Keep Mickey Locked Up” Act, over in Europe they have dared to go with a horrifying 50 ... |
| Jul 14, 2004 | RIAA Defends INDUCE Act; Explains Why It's No Betamax | It’s not surprising that the RIAA would come out in defense of the INDUCE Act from Senator Hatch. They practically wrote the bill themselves. They had hoped to sneak it through without any debate, but a bunch of tech companies have stood up... |
| Jul 14, 2004 | The Excessively Annotated RIAA Letter On The INDUCE Act | Ernest Miller writes “Techdirt has already briefly discussed the RIAA’s letter defending the INDUCE Act. Now, you can read the RIAA’s original letter, the abridged version, or the excessively annotated version.” No offense to Ernest, who pu... |
| Jul 14, 2004 | Does The RIAA's Silver Bullet Break Wiretap Laws? | The RIAA has been running around the halls of Congress showing off Audible Magic as the “silver bullet” against file sharers. Audible Magic is a system that claims to be able to identify and stop file sharing of unauthorized files in its tr... |
| Jul 9, 2004 | Technologies Threatened By INDUCE Act | Ernest Miller writes “Techdirt has called the INDUCE Act “broad and ridiculously dangerous” and claimed that “it would be disastrous for the tech industry.” Both these claims are correct. To prove them, I’ve started a new feature on The Imp... |
