Topic: COPYRIGHT - on February 1, 2009 at 2:11:00 PM CET
Every household to pay £20 internet piracy tax as Government announces 'broadband for all' plan
Every home in the UK will have to pay an internet piracy tax as part of a new Government commitment to give every household broadband access by 2012.
Lord Carter's Digital Britain report suggested scrapping BT's obligation to provide fix line access and instead rolling out the new technology.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on January 27, 2009 at 1:33:00 PM CET
Video SONY BMG Music v. Tenenbaum
Massachusetts will have to wait a little longer for the state's first webstreamed case in Federal Court. Judge Nancy Gertner has postponed a hearing in a copyright infringement case against a Boston University graduate student, pending an appellate decision on whether the streaming should be permitted.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on January 26, 2009 at 1:23:00 PM CET
YouTube Users Lash Out At Warner Music (And Google) With Protest Videos
Two things are clear in the YouTube/Warner Music scuffle. First, neither side is 100% right. And second, users are very, very angry that their videos are being pulled down or muted when they contain background music owned by Warner Music.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on January 22, 2009 at 3:01:00 PM CET
First Federal Courtroom Webcast Postponed
The nation's first live steaming webcast of federal trial court action -- a pretrial hearing in a Recording Industry Association of America file sharing copyright case -– has been postponed.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on January 20, 2009 at 1:16:00 PM CET
Dutch Study Says Filesharing Has Positive Economic Effects
In a study conducted by TNO for the Dutch government the economic effects of filesharing are found to be positive. According to the 146 page report (available for download, but in Dutch) filesharing is good for the prosperity of the Dutch: with filesharing more media are available, even though this costs the media industry some profit. One of the most noticeable conclusions is that downloading and buying are not mutually exclusive: downloaders on average buy just as much music as non-downloaders, but they buy more DVD's and games then people who don't download. They also tend to visit more concerts and buy more merchandise.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on January 20, 2009 at 1:15:00 PM CET
Isle of Man wants legal P2P blanket
Tax haven the Isle of Man, with a population of around 80,000, wants to introduce a compulsory blanket licence for music downloads. Broadband ISP subscribers would pay a "nominal" compulsory tax, but be able to share music legally.
Surprisingly, the proposal has won approval from the chief executive of the BPI, Geoff Taylor.
"At the end of the day, we are not going to stop piracy, so let's embrace it," the Manx government's inward investment minister Ron Berry told the MidemNet conference this weekend.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on January 18, 2009 at 1:12:00 PM CET
RIAA Tries To Appeal Order Allowing Internet TV Court Broadcast
The RIAA has appealed the order entered several days ago allowing the January 22nd hearing in SONY BMG Music v. Tenenbaum to be streamed over internet TV. Additionally, they've made a motion for a stay.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on January 17, 2009 at 11:04:00 AM CET
RIAA Hearing Next Week Will Be Televised
One commentator labels it 'another fly in the RIAA's ointment.' In SONY BMG Music v. Tenenbaum, the Boston, Massachusetts, RIAA case in which the defendant is represented by Harvard law professor Charles Nesson and a group of his students, the Judge has ruled that the hearing scheduled for January 22nd will be televised over the Internet.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on January 17, 2009 at 11:02:00 AM CET
95% of music downloads are illegal
Despite a boom in digital music sales, an industry report has found that the majority of online music was downloaded for free with no payments made to artists
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on January 16, 2009 at 12:49:19 PM CET
Pirates win music download battle
Ninety-five per cent of music downloaded online is illegal, a report by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) has said.
The global music trade body said this is its biggest challenge as artists and record companies miss out on payments.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on January 15, 2009 at 11:25:00 AM CET
The DRM fight isn’t over yet - Be warned: your account information is stored in every file
Apple's iTunes Store is almost completely DRM-free, and will be entirely DRM-free from spring. This means files downloaded from iTunes work on heaps of devices that aren't from Apple. What better way to celebrate the final bullet to the living corpse of copy protection than by reading everything you need to know about iTunes Plus? There isn't one. And anyone who tells you otherwise is a liar, and not your friend.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on December 9, 2008 at 10:52:56 AM CET
Joe Satriani Sues Coldplay For Copyright Infringement
Guitar virtuoso Joe Satriani has sued Coldplay for copyright infringement over claims that their hit single, Viva La Vida, used "substantial original portions" of his song If I Could Fly from 2004, seeking damages for "any and all profits." The lawsuit has been filed in Los Angeles federal court. Call me a skeptic, but it was just back in June when we wrote about a band called Creaky Boards making a similar claim.
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