Shareholder Action?
Would it be helpful if many of us became shareholders of the (parent companies of) ISPs then sign over (on a yearly basis) voting rights to e.g. the EFF and try and vote down the ISPs "voluntary"...
View ArticleNothing will happen.
Just like the "birds video": http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120227/00152917884/guy-gets-bogus-youtube-copyright-claim-birds-singing-background.shtml ABSOLUTELY NOTHING WILL HAPPEN! So vent your...
View ArticleArticle 14
If anyone thought there would be a mass persecution of alleged "infringers", that would be a bit naive. The Malicious Minds behind all this know full well there would be a public backlash, or at the...
View ArticleReligion
This whole thing is a bit like a MPAA/RIAA Religion (through the USTR mouthpiece), concocted in the "land of the free", and like usual, the new converts are even more fanatical and hard-line than the...
View ArticleAnother DMCA Fix
If we're amending the DMCA anyway, what absolutely needs to be fixed is the take-down system, in the sense that you have, under penalty of perjury, need to have a good-faith believe that the work you...
View ArticleCETA / ACTA
Don't forget that North America also includes Canada, and right now two things are being sneaked through: 1. CETA - includes various IPR proposals that are not in the publics best interest: pharma...
View ArticleInteresting tidbit...
Most people watch TV in their living rooms using traditional cable or satellite options. In fact, [b]more than 95 percent of Americans get their information[/b] and entertainment that way That's what...
View ArticleBerne Art. 35 para 2
"(2) Any country may denounce this Act by notification addressed to the Director General. Such denunciation shall constitute also denunciation of all earlier Acts and shall affect only the country...
View ArticleArticle 6
It's all relative; you can even argue that p2p-filesharing could be legal under the above-quoted rules; the "normal exploitation" of a work would be offering it for sale in a store, having it play in a...
View ArticleNewTube
It's obvious YouTube has been compromised. We need a new one. So maybe not "NewTube"... but what is going to be the "next" YouTube and how are we going to prevent the (c) industry to get a little bit...
View ArticleScan
Everyone seems to have forgotten that when I use my scanner to make a digital copy from an 1880s magazine, itself long in the public domain, the resulting digital file apparently is under a brand new...
View ArticleSimple.
It's very simple... YOU wouldn't be able to make any money off your creation, or nothing more than pocket change, so MPAA claims fair use. The MPAA on the other hand can make tons of money with their...
View ArticleThe Pinball Arcade
There is a similar issue with "The Pinball Arcade" on XBoX 360 - the publisher Crave Entertainment went bankrupt and now the developer Farsight needs to get the rights back through the bankruptcy judge...
View ArticleArticle 1
If any change is made to rules regarding "fixations", it should also be explicitly stated that the expiration of the copyright to the fixation trumps any other right, i.e. a copyright in the lyrics...
View ArticleRelevancy
One thing that irks me is the amount of attention that is given to this marketing ploy. Just ignore it. There are more important things than some MPAA list.
View ArticleSheeple
The problem is that the majority of VOTERS is still the sheeple (those born when electric typewriters were considered high-tech and before) and they care zero about copyright and know even less about...
View ArticleSpecial 404 or something? :)
"Personal electronic sites are only allowed to put news owned by that person, and are not allowed to 'quote', 'gather' or summarise information from press organisations or government websites," I can't...
View ArticleShareholder Action?
Would it be helpful if many of us became shareholders of the (parent companies of) ISPs then sign over (on a yearly basis) voting rights to e.g. the EFF and try and vote down the ISPs "voluntary"...
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