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[net_life] Muxtape Is Dead (for now) ... Long Live 8 Tracks
Because now, stepping into the breach, is 8Tracks. David isn't going to get sued because he's taking advantage of a provision in the much-derided Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which gives him a compulsory ...
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Judge: Copyright Owners Must Consider 'Fair Use' Before Sending Takedown Notice
In the nation's first such ruling, a federal judge on Wednesday said copyright owners must consider "fair use" of their works before sending takedown notices to online video-sharing sites.
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P2P:- If a post by Robert X. Cringely on my NCSC, RIAA comic: The Case of Internet Piracy story is right, I'm wrong.
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Muxtape Ignored Copyright Law, Says RIAA, But Site May Have Grounds To Fight Shutdown
A day after the popular mixtape uploading site Muxtape suddenly went down due to what it said was a "problem" with the Recording Industry Association of America, the industry lobbying revealed that it had been ...
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MBTA: MIT Student Court Gagging Order Lifted
Three students who were carrying out academic research into the security vulnerabilities of Boston's transit fare payment system have had a court order that forbade them to discuss the issues, reversed.
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The recording industry and its allies are using a new tactic to shape the minds of would-be file swappers: comic books.
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Magid on Tech: Decency Act has downside
When Congress voted for the Communications Decency Act of 1996, most members thought it was just about pornography, says U.S. Rep.
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RIAA confirms it's behind the Muxtape shutdown
Muxtape , the love-child of the Internet and 80s cassette mix tapes, has had its plug pulled by the RIAA.
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Zurza struck again. No sooner had I uploaded my weekly post on August 16 to my Performancing Blog , complete with a copyright notice and a preface rant against Zurza than my post was stolen and posted to ...
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Muxtape falters: another online music site falls to RIAA
It's a rough time to be in the online music business with Pandora seeming close to extinction, and other Web radio companies in jeopardy if SoundExchange manages to get royalty rates for Web airplay raised.
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Beijing Olympic Update - Scales goes solo
Into the thick of the Olympic sporting competition, Canada is rolling in a litany of 5th, 6th, 7th places ... but with track and field, rowing finals and trampolining yet to come, the Canucks still have a ...
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But last week I received my latest issue of House-to-House from my MP, Diane Ablonczy , and quite serendipitously on page 3 were these two useful articles.
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Critics launch cyber battle over copyright bill
Critics of the Harper government's proposed changes to the Copyright Act have launched a cyber crusade to fight the controversial bill.
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It's the End of Publishing as We Know It
YouTube the evil eye, calling it a blatant breaker of copyrights and wondering why the service hasn't been sued out of existence .
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Personal endorsement for Anne Lagac Dowson, candidate in Westmount-Ville-Marie, Quebec
Earlier this summer, I heard from Anne Lagac Dowson, a 20-year veteran of CBC Radio who had quit her post to run for the New Democratic Party in a by-election in the Quebec riding of Westmount-Ville-Marie. I've ...
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DRM for streaming: d-e-a-d dead
DRM:- Consumer control through Digital Restrictions Management is a dead horse. But the entertainment and software cartels keep on beating it Anything which can be seen or heard can be copied by one means or ...
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Canadians ready to battle Canadian DMCA in the fall
When Canadian Industry Minister Jim Prentice finally introduced his Canadian version of the disastrous American Digital Millennium Copyright Act in June, he clearly hoped that the widespread outrage over his ...
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Pirated YouTube Clips Gain Adverts | Forget Takedown Notices - There's Money In It
Could monetizing rather than removing copyrighted clips prove to be a solution to both the 'Viacom issue' and YouTube's failure to earn the money that its traffic suggests should be possible.
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Canadians Battling Proposed Canadian DMCA
An anonymous reader writes "CTV reports on how Canadians are fighting back against the Canadian DMCA .
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4 : Critics launch cyber battle over copyright bill
Critics of the Harper government's proposed changes to the Copyright Act have launched a cyber crusade to fight the controversial bill.
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