if i could tag this ip with both meanings of the term, i would
A whole country (albeit not a very big one) goes in for compulsory licenses for music.
I didn't realize Kraftwerk were the bad guys.
Awesome new organization. I love it.
Answer: Seems so. People sure don't like DRM.
I'd (thankfully?) forgotten about this. Oh well!
Interesting thoughts on copyright from James Grimmelmann. "As with banks, the expectation that a copyright-based industry is on the brink of failure may be self-fulfilling."
"Paul Goldstein says that copyright isn’t expanding; that’s just an optical illusion. It’s technology that’s expanding, and that’s just bringing the rest of us into contact with copyright, which is right where it’s always been."
"For several years Georgia State was involved in litigation over the fair use doctrine. Specifically a consortium of publishers backed by Oxford, Cambridge and Sage sued Georgia State over copyright violations by many of the faculty. A decision has now been rendered. The Court backed Georgia State in almost every instance, finding no copyright violation. However, the Court did lay down some rules - in particular you can use no more than 10% or one chapter, whichever is shorter, of any book."
More evidence of bands releasing works onto P2P networks as a form of promotion.
Asheesh Laroia ruminates on CC receiving the FSF social benefit award. Wonderful news that we've come this far. This would have been unthinkable a couple years ago.
I don't know what pinterest is, but it sounds like it may be violating copyright law.
Cute publicity stunt that tries to show pirates what it feels like. I have pretty mixed feelings about the whole thing but I think it is a nice little hack.
The nasty part of Hadopi overturned is overturned. Awesome!
Great article. The second article in this series is important as well.
