p2pnet view: - There seem to be three distinct profiles of people involved in the issue of file sharing.
Copyright Maximalist -
This class starts at the top of the entertainment food chain with the nauseating, self-serving outright lies concerning copyright, [...]
IDG News Service - U.S. copyright official Steven Tepp said Tuesday he doesn’t understand many of the objections to the proposed Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), a 37-nation effort to enforce copyright and counterfeit laws across international borders.
Tepp, senior counsel for [...]
“The content industry has had this wonderful ‘ipso facto’ correlation argument which, actually, on the correlation basis, is wrong. They say, ‘We’re dying here. Millions of people are ripping us off. … You’ve got to get these ISPs and [...]
After spending a year studying how piracy and illegal counterfeiting affects the United States, the Government Accountability Office says it still doesn’t know for sure.
Congress tasked the GAO in April 2009 with reviewing the efforts to quantify the size and scope of piracy, including the impacts of Web piracy to the film and music [...]
“I couldn’t even believe it. It felt like – like Wow! This is really happening!”
That was Alexa Alexa Gonzalez, 12.
She was doodling on her desk in a New York school and “for that, she was busted”, says My Fox.
The seventh grader says she was put in metal cuffs, taken to a police precinct across [...]
DETROIT (AP) - A lawyer for Apple Inc. defended its use of Eminem’s songs on iTunes as trial opened Thursday in a dispute with the rapper’s publisher over who had the right to offer digital downloads of the music.
Eight Mile Style LLC and an affiliated company, Martin Affiliated LLC, say their contract [...]
Tue June 30,2009
WINDHOEK – According to the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) comparative study, the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) aims to develop rules for protecting rights over traditional knowledge about medical plants, which IIED says conventional intellectual property (IP) laws do not cover.
The problem, says IIED, is that WIPO intends to use [...]
Freedom - It isn’t about the law. It’s about words. Semantics. Sophism, if you like.
When someone hires a lawyer, and a trial and jury are involved, s/he’s looking for someone who’s good with words and theatrics; who has all the skills of a confidence huckster: someone who’s a super-performer able to tweak a jury to [...]
Freedom - A Swedish judge with strong links to the entertainment kartells, and who presided in The Pirate Bay trial, isn’t guilty of bias, a local court has ruled.
Now, “we will probably file charges against the swedish legal system to the european court [...]
p2pnet news view Music:- On Monday, p2pnet quoted the EFF’s Fred von Lohmann (right) as saying ASCAP, the “same folks who went after Girl Scouts for singing around a campfire, appears to believe every time your ringtone rings in public, “you’re violating copyright law by ‘publicly performing’ it without a license.”
“This will doubtless come as [...]
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