-*- -*- -*- -*- -*- Eben Moglen Robin D. Gross Jennifer Jenkins Karen Sandler Greg MacAyeal (Asst. Head of the Northwestern U. Music Library) If the MLA has contact with any sister organizations in Europe, it might be good to ask them if they're planning any opposition to this... The 50 year limit means that many early stereo recordings are now starting to come in to the public domain. If we can keep the 50 year limit, then there's extraordinary potential for music libraries with large collections of old recordings to give the public unrestricted access to a treasure trove of music. Obviously this affects the MLA, since many of the old recordings held by MLA members are of European origin. If, on the other hand, the EU extends the limit to 95 years, that won't help many musicians, but it will have an extremely suppressive effect on what MLA members can do to make music available. Because digital copies know no boundaries, the MLA's position on the upcoming vote may have some advisory weight in itself. Furthermore, if the MLA has contacts with similar European organizations and can urge them to talk to their representatives, then even if this vote is lost, at least some awareness will have been built for next time. -*- -*- -*- -*- -*- Macauley http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/4/25/1345/03329 "I believe, Sir, that I may with safety take it for granted that the effect of monopoly generally is to make articles scarce, to make them dear, and to make them bad." Response to Macauley, with clear distributor-based arguments: The London Quarterly Review, "The Copyright Question" http://books.google.com/books?id=338fAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA2-PA112&lpg=RA2-PA112&dq=copyright+poor+scarce+dear+monopoly&source=web&ots=hwWl62xnCf&sig=sW2-ha_byYq24_hD9jJI5Rega1c&hl=en&ei=gj6PSbWiItKgtwfVvtSNCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result -*- -*- -*- -*- -*- Google talks: The (Surprising) History of Copyright and What It Means For Google http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhBpI13dxkI Copyright Regimes vs Civil Liberties http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08gfh_6sbQI&feature=channel -*- -*- -*- -*- -*- Wikipedia / Wikimedia Commons:Image casebook http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Image_casebook#Art_.28copies_of.29 -*- -*- -*- -*- -*- Copyright as censorship: http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/25/0430235 Creationists Violating Copyright Posted by kdawson on Sunday November 25, @02:07AM from the lawyer-on-speed-dial dept. The_Rook writes "The Discovery Institute, more a lawyer mill than a scientific institution, copied Harvard University's BioVisions video 'The Inner Life of the Cell,' stripped out Harvard's copyright notice, credits, and narration, inserted their own creationist-friendly narration, and renamed the video 'The Cell As an Automated City.' The new title subtly suggests that a cell is designed rather than evolved." -*- -*- -*- -*- -*- For Ghost Works survey: http://www.boingboing.net/2007/11/13/jk-rowling-sues-to-s.html -*- -*- -*- -*- -*- comment about TP system working! http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/polls/what_kind_of_articles_would_you_prefer_to_see_in_free_software_magazine%3F Talks about "5000 fans" concept. http://www.scottandrew.com/wordpress/archives/2005/04/5000_fans.html -*- -*- -*- -*- -*- Jackie Kazarian "Public Domain" exhibit jackiekazarian@comcast.net (773) 294-9464 -*- -*- -*- -*- -*- Farouk Mustafa "Farouk Abdel Wahab" f-mustafa@uchicago.edu (Professer & translator, colleague of Peter Dorman's, interested in cm?o and in talking about economics of translations.) -*- -*- -*- -*- -*- Michael W. Carroll Assistant Professor of Law Villanova University School of Law Phone: (610) 519-7088 Fax: (610) 519-5672 299 North Spring Mill Road Villanova, Pennsylvania 19085-1597 -*- -*- -*- -*- -*- Hunh. http://copyright.blogwog.com/ -*- -*- -*- -*- -*- Good examples of logo box sizes here: http://www.boingboing.net/2005/03/17/jason_wishnows_weekl.html -*- -*- -*- -*- -*- Wendy Selzer NFL DMCA takedown notice http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20070214/154327.shtml -*- -*- -*- -*- -*- Contact this guy? 2.0 link1 Ma.gnolia: stuart yeates' Bookmarks Tagged With ... ... Google Book Search as Plagiarism Detector | QuestionCopyright.org" ... .com/srv/i?i=sc010159&r=questioncopyright.org/node/4&s=25eb55ede4c4 fb3a" ... -*- -*- -*- -*- -*- Current copyright literature http://web.austin.utexas.edu/law_library/copyright/ -*- -*- -*- -*- -*- A funding models page, could include Threshold Pledge, and: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FairShare -*- -*- -*- -*- -*- Abandoning Copyright: A Blessing for Artists, Art, and Society By Joost Smiers de Volkskrant, 26 November 2005 http://www.culturelink.org/news/members/2005/members2005-011.html -*- -*- -*- -*- -*- NINE-TENTHS OF THE LAW: THE ENGLISH COPYRIGHT DEBATES AND THE RHETORIC OF THE PUBLIC DOMAIN, by MARK ROSE http://www.law.duke.edu/journals/lcp/articles/lcp66dWinterSpring2003p75.htm (excellent article reacting to Boyle et al) Some *great* quotes showing the understanding of the inherent tensions of the bargain, and of the binding together of printing with authorship: There seems . . . to be in authours a stronger right of property than that by occupancy; a metaphysical right, a right, as it were, of creation, which should from its nature be perpetual; but the consent of nations is against it, and indeed reason and the interests of learning are against it; for were it to be perpetual, no book, however useful, could be universally diffused amongst mankind, should the proprietor take it into his head to restrain its circulation. No book could have the advantage of being edited with notes, however necessary to its elucidation, should the proprietor perversely oppose it. For the general good of the world, therefore, whatever valuable work has once been created by an authour, and issued out by him, should be understood as no longer in his power, but as belonging to the publick; at the same time the authour is entitled to an adequate reward. This he should have by an exclusive right to his work for a considerable number of years.5 I wish you would have some care of book-buyers as well as all of booksellers and the company of stationers, who having got a patent for all or most of the ancient Latin authors (by what right or pretense I know not) claim the text to be theirs, and so will not suffer fairer or more correct editions than any they print here, or with new comments to be imported without compounding with them, whereby these most useful books are excessively dear to scholars, and a monopoly is put into the hands of ignorant and lazy stationers.11 From this argument -- because it is just, that an author should reap the pecuniary profits of his own ingenuity and labour. It is just, that another should not use his name, without his consent. It is fit that he should judge when to publish, or whether he ever will publish. It is fit he should not only choose the time, but the manner of publication; how many; what volume; what print. It is fit, he should choose to whose care he will trust the accuracy and correctness of the impression; in whose honesty he will confide, not to foist in additions: with other reasonings of the same effect.17 Their whole existence is in the mind alone; incapable of any other modes of acquisition or enjoyment, than by mental possession or apprehension; safe and invulnerable, from their own immateriality: no trespass can reach them; no tort affect them; no fraud or violence diminish or damage them. Yet these are the phantoms which the author would grasp and confine to himself . . . .19 If there be any thing in the world common to all mankind, science and learning are in their nature publici juris, and they ought to be as free and general as air or water. [*pg 81] They forget their Creator, as well as their fellow creatures, who wish to monopolize his noblest gifts and greatest benefits. Why did we enter into society at all, but to enlighten one another's minds, and improve our faculties, for the common welfare of the species? Those great men, those favoured mortals, those sublime spirits, who share that ray of divinity which we call genius, are intrusted by Providence with the delegated power of imparting to their fellow-creatures that instruction which heaven meant for universal benefit; they must not be niggards to the world, or hoard up for themselves the common stock.20 -*- -*- -*- -*- -*- Canada's Music Lobby Buys Government Access http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/25/1556204&from=rss -*- -*- -*- -*- -*- The Insanely Great Songs Apple Won't Let You Hear http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/25/1336208&from=rss -*- -*- -*- -*- -*- Jeff Ubois's publications page -- great! See Annalee Newitz's article. http://www.ubois.com/wikiwiki.php?page=Publications -*- -*- -*- -*- -*- Disney disallows Winnie the Pooh on a gravestone. http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2007/biz2/0701/gallery.101dumbest_2007/53.html -*- -*- -*- -*- -*- Radio talk show hosts force snippets off bloggers sites, despite fact that they are valid critical excerpts. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/15/technology/15radio.html?ex=1169614800&en=12a01468ffeaa8c2&ei=5070 -*- -*- -*- -*- -*- Sony and Universal Prohibit Sharing Via Zune http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/20/0350207&from=rss -*- -*- -*- -*- -*- http://freenetproject.org/philosophy.html copyright stuff -*- -*- -*- -*- -*- http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/10/20/1932241 Boy Scouts Introduce Merit Badge For Not Pirating -*- -*- -*- -*- -*- Publishers thank Google for increasing book sales. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/10/07/1931243 -*- -*- -*- -*- -*- Pirate Bay! -*- -*- -*- -*- -*- Duke University Comic Book http://www.law.duke.edu/cspd/comics/ (comic about how making a documentary about a day in the life of NYC was darn near impossible to make) -*- -*- -*- -*- -*- Documentary "Willful Infringement" http://www.willfulinfringement.com/ -*- -*- -*- -*- -*- Hmmm. Not sure I want to advertise the existence of this. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6283435552434112856&q=copyright+fogel -*- -*- -*- -*- -*- RIAA Wants to Include Song Files it Can't Produce http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/09/24/0748230 -*- -*- -*- -*- -*- Content Owners to Charge Royalties for Searching? http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/09/23/1356230 -*- -*- -*- -*- -*- RFID To Track Play of DVDs And CDs? http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/09/18/0332241 -*- -*- -*- -*- -*- Warner opens video library to YouTube http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/09/18/1046247 -*- -*- -*- -*- -*- Grannies and Pirated Software http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/09/12/2352207 After reading Ed Foster's blog about how the Embroidery Software Protection Coalition (ESPC) is suing grandmothers over using pirated digitized designs, I thought you might want to call your own grandmothers and tell them they are going to be needing a lawyer. And the ESPC is very serious. On the ESPC faq page they scare these grandmothers by telling them even if they didn't know the software was pirated, that 'Unfortunately, when it comes to copyright violations, ignorance is no defense.'" -*- -*- -*- -*- -*- Andy Oram turns out to have written a lot on this! http://www.praxagora.com/andyo/policy/#copyright http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/etel/2006/01/13/the-problem-with-webcasting.html http://www.openp2p.com/pub/a/p2p/2002/03/08/media.html -*- -*- -*- -*- -*- schneier on copyright in the digital world: http://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram-0108.html#7 refers to http://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram-0105.html#3 -*- -*- -*- -*- -*- "Exposing the Happy Birthday story" http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2003/7/5/112441/6280 See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Birthday_to_You -*- -*- -*- -*- -*- eDonkey Pays the Recording Industry $30M http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/09/12/1932225 -*- -*- -*- -*- -*- RIAA defendant's lawyers answer questions on Slashdot. http://interviews.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/09/11/1557207 -*- -*- -*- -*- -*- Canadian Copyright Group Seeks To License the Net Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Tuesday September 05, @03:42AM from the everyone-wants-a-piece dept. The Internet An anonymous reader writes "A new Toronto Star article from Michael Geist not only describes why Canadian Ministers of Education are pushing a copyright proposal that will harm Internet access, but also reveals how a copyright group is seeking to create a new license for Internet content. Access Copyright, a copyright collective, wants to use a new international text standard to license everything from books to blogs. Geist outlines in his blog how Canadians can fight back against these bonehead proposals." http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/09/05/0418223&from=rss -*- -*- -*- -*- -*- Slashdot article on "Steal This Film" and PirateBay: http://slashdot.org/articles/06/08/28/116239.shtml -*- -*- -*- -*- -*- The Online Guitar Archive (OLGA.net) takedown story: http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/13/1256224&from=rss Related: rec.music.christian postings about the CCM Guitar Music Archives, Mike Pilato's CCM version of OLGA that was pressed into disappearance by a publishing company citing copyright concerns (Feb '07): http://groups.google.com/groups/search?q=%22CCM+Guitar+Music+Archives%22&start=0&scoring=d& Highlights Mike can remember: * my site had a strict policy against posting any guitar music that was available in printed form from the publisher. ignorant about copyright's true purpose, my posts even had this blurb in the request for submissions: Please respect all laws regarding copyright, patent, The Club(tm), and other such neat-0 anti-theft devices! * traffic on the CCM GMA site got so heavy that UNCC made me move the site off their networks * the site's URL was published in some book's appendix of top-ten Christian online resources (can't recall the book's title, though) * the offending publishing company was, I think, Vineyard, but I'd hesitate to name names without proof * I learned an awful lot about playing guitar by forcing myself to `pick out' the guitar parts from recordings that I owned. -*- -*- -*- -*- -*- * Slashdot article on China and piracy's effects: http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/07/05/158255&from=rss --> http://techdirt.com/articles/20060705/0333226.shtml --> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20050504/1041227.shtml -*- -*- -*- -*- -*- * see http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2006_06_11_fosblogarchive.html#115012767333131931 for reasons why publishers can survive -*- -*- -*- -*- -*- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5139522 NPR story: Copyright Laws Severely Limit Availability of Music -*- -*- -*- -*- -*- new RIAA suits http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/08/26/1214214&tid=123&tid=141&tid=1 -*- -*- -*- -*- -*- On Creativity, Computers and Copyright By Andrew Orlowski in San Francisco (An article that gets it almost all wrong.) http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/07/21/creativity/ -*- -*- -*- -*- -*- IP in the fashion world http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?pt=ZXNsxCyVywfPQsxH%2BX3o%2BK%3D%3D -*- -*- -*- -*- -*- Good stuff adapted from Free Culture, recommended by Alex: http://www.easylum.net/book/view/38 -*- -*- -*- -*- -*- Whoa. Seems like someone's on the same page: "Six copyright myths" http://p2pnet.net/story/3054#comments -*- -*- -*- -*- -*- That professor's anti-copyright screed from long ago: http://logosfoundation.org/copyleft/copyrigh.html#top -*- -*- -*- -*- -*- www.infoanarchy.org www.infoanarchy.org/wiki -*- -*- -*- -*- -*- The article Jim sent, great RIAA quote: http://www.internetnews.com/infra/article.php/3398091

  • http://homepages.law.asu.edu/~dkarjala/OpposingCopyrightExtension/

    -*- -*- -*- -*- -*- biella: http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue10_1/kretschmer/ Doctorow: The excellent free peer-reviewed net-journal First Monday has published an exhaustive survey of the earnings made by British and German musicians. Their conclusion? Copyright doesn't give creators a living, and in many cases (such as clearing samples) it costs them more than they can afford. -*- -*- -*- -*- -*- Contact this guy (from search for "open publishing"): http://www.cat.org.au/maffew/cat/openpub.html -*- -*- -*- -*- -*- Some good copyright music links, Beethoven (!) quote: http://hebb.mit.edu/FreeMusic/ -*- -*- -*- -*- -*- Scorching critique of some arguments for copyright (Fitz sent this). Mark Lemley, a UC Berkeley law prof, has just published a paper on copyright called "Ex Ante Versus Ex Post Justifications for Intellectual Property," that's a good, fast read. Lemley says that in copyright's early days, the justificaiton for the author's monopoly was to give authors the incentive to create new works, but that today, we have the "ex ante" arguments that copyright also gives authors the incentive to exploit their creations -- to make more of them once they are created -- and to "steward" them by ensuring that only good, quality derivative works enter the market. Without saying much about the idea that copyright can be a good incentive to create, Lemley tears these other arguments for copyright to shreds, in a highly entertaining fashion: http://www.boingboing.net/2004/05/25/scorching_critique_o.html http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Delivery.cfm/SSRN_ID494424_code32215.pdf?abstractid=494424 -*- -*- -*- -*- -*-