Archive for the ‘Law’ Category
Thursday, March 1st, 2007
Support the FAIR USE Act!:
"FAIR USE Act would remove some of the entertainment industry's most draconian anti-innovation weapons and chip away at the Digital Millennium Copyright Act's broad restrictions on fair use. Take action to help restore balance in copyright now."
Technorati Tags: copyfight, DRM
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Sunday, October 29th, 2006
Not many people in the UK are aware that, whenever they rip a CD they own to their computer and/or iPod, they're actually breaking the law. It's amusing to point this out to people, especially politicians who talk about what music they have on their iPod.
I'm glad someone has ...
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Tuesday, October 24th, 2006
So, I finally got around to listening to a talk by Michael Ayers. Mr. Ayers is an attorney for Toshiba and he gave a talk at the University of Southern California last month. For the most part, he's a reasonable guy. He's a lawyer and so takes a fairly pragmatic ...
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Sunday, May 28th, 2006
Geeklawyer posted a piece on the French DRM laws and a reaction to it in the Washington Post. Now, I don't know the political leanings of the reporter, but I'd guess its right of center, simply because most reporting these days seems to be.
So the point Geeklawyer made was on ...
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Thursday, May 18th, 2006
Here we go again. The RIAA is suing XM Radio for creating a device that lets people record songs from the radio. When are these idiots going to learn. I remember recording songs off the radio a long time ago. Sure, it was FM and the recording was onto a ...
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