Topic: COPYRIGHT - on November 29, 2007 at 11:43:00 AM CET
IFPI Austria: Regierung soll gegen Internet-Piraterie kämpfen
Franz Medwenitsch, Geschäftsführer des Verbandes der Österreichischen Musikwirtschaft [IFPI Austria], spricht sich im Interview mit ORF.at für eine stärkere Protektion urheberrechtlich geschützter Inhalte im Internet aus. Dazu bedarf es, ähnlich wie in Frankreich, einer Initiative der Regierung, sagt der IFPI-Chef.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on November 29, 2007 at 11:33:00 AM CET
EMI to Cut RIAA Funding; Death of RIAA Near?
The end for the RIAA may be coming much sooner than we had previously imagined. News comes to us today that EMI is attempting to cut its funding to the “industry’s trade bodies,” which is code for RIAA. The unnamed source said that EMI was looking at ways to “substantially” reduce these payments.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on November 14, 2007 at 10:49:00 AM CET
Schnüffelhunde auf Welttournee
Die beiden Raubkopierer-Schnüffelhunde Lucky und Flo gingen letzte Woche mal wieder durch die Medien und Blogs.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on November 14, 2007 at 10:47:00 AM CET
Prosecutor sets date for Pirate Bay showdown
Swedish prosecutors say they will file charges against five individuals involved in BitTorrent tracking operation the Pirate Bay by the end of January.
According to IDG (in Swedish), prosecutor Hakan Roswall will name the Pirate Bay's adminstrator Peter Sunde, also known as Brokep, in the copyright infringement suit.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on November 9, 2007 at 11:51:00 AM CET
Music DRM 'dead by next summer'
Killing DRM is saving digital music, reckons British retailer 7Digital. The company says DRM-free music sales now outnumber sales of DRM-enumbered music by 4:1 , and credits EMI with the shift.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on November 7, 2007 at 10:38:00 AM CET
Did German Copyright Law Really Kill A Fan Fiction Film?
The concept of "fan fiction" represents an interesting challenge for copyright law. Most copyright laws don't take into account the idea of fans creating new works involving characters or worlds that they like -- as such a thing just wasn't practical until recently.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on September 19, 2007 at 10:42:00 AM CEST
BitTorrent-busters busted by BitTorrent
MediaDefender vows to protect the big-name movie studios and record labels from attack by P2P file sharers. But it seems to have trouble protecting itself.
Over the weekend, what looks like nine months of internal MediaDefender email messages turned up on BitTorrent sites across the net, in an apparent expose of the company's internal operations. The messages would seem to prove that the company uses particularly nasty tactics in its ongoing efforts to bring down file-sharers everywhere - which is news to no one.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on September 6, 2007 at 12:43:00 PM CEST
Universal Sues Video-Sharer Veoh, Alleging Copyright Violations
Universal Music, the world's largest music company, filed suit in federal court Tuesday against Veoh Networks, a video- and file-sharing site, accusing it of massive copyright infringement that deprives the company and its artists of sales and royalties.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on September 4, 2007 at 1:52:00 PM CEST
Pushing the impossible
Movie studios believe they can create the perfect copy protection system. But it would be easier to go faster than the speed of light, says Cory Doctorow
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on August 22, 2007 at 2:25:00 PM CEST
Defcon 2007: Robert Graham, Errata Security
Robert Graham is the CEO of Errata Security, as well as being a well-known security blogger, appropriately at the Errata Security blog. We took a few minutes at Defcon to talk about the Wall of Sheep, as well as a vulnerability in Gmail and all of the major Web-based email systems.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on August 15, 2007 at 8:30:00 PM CEST
YouTube-Viacom trial turns comic
As if its court battle with Viacom wasn't funny enough, YouTube has now asked for testimony from Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert - the faux newsmen whose exploits on Viacom's Comedy Central cable TV channel once made for prime viewing material on the video-sharing site.
According to a filing with the New York federal court where YouTube is fighting a $1bn copyright infringement suit from media giant Viacom, the Google-owned video sharer has requested depositions from 32 people, and numbers three and four on the list are Stewart and Colbert. That puts them a few spots below Viacom chief executive officer Philippe Dauman, who's first, and a few spots above executive chairman and American icon Sumner Redstone, who's number eight.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on August 1, 2007 at 10:48:00 AM CEST
Copy killers
Digital rights management is a lie concocted to bilk the entertainment industry out of a fortune - it's time to wake up.
In Stalin's Soviet Union, a madman named Lysenko was put in charge of the nation's wheat growing. Lysenko rejected the idea that genetic traits are inherited from your parents, and instead believed that you could change an organism's offspring by changing the organism itself.
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