Entries Tagged as 'copyright'

Sunday, January 2nd, 2011

BookLiberator Lets You Make E-Books Cheaply (And Is Definitely Not Intended For Copyright Violation!) – The Firewall – the world of security – Forbes

via blogs.forbes.com “Remember the sense of liberation that came from digitizing your CDs and then chucking a decade or two’s accumulation of archaic plastic? James Vasile and Ian Sullivan want to give you that gratification again–this time from rendering into bits your hundreds of pounds of dead trees. Their invention, on display over the weekend [...]

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Sunday, January 2nd, 2011

Happy [belated] public domain day!

January 1 is public domain day, where in many parts of the world, some old works become free of copyright restrictions. In the U.S. no works will become so free due to the passing of time until 2019 — assuming the duration of copyright restriction is not again retroactively extended before then. via gondwanaland.com

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Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010

The RIAA? Amateurs. Here’s how you sue 14,000+ P2P users

The sheer volume suggests that these cases aren’t designed for prosecution—and they don’t need to be. As the RIAA lawsuits showed us, most people will settle. Data from the recording industry lawsuits, revealed in a court case, showed that 11,000 of the 18,000 Does settled immediately or had their cases dropped by the labels. Seven [...]

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Friday, September 12th, 2008

Who will watch Watchmen? Nobody, if 20th Century Fox gets its way.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/eonline/20080819/en_movies_eo/24472 Who will watch Watchmen? Nobody, if 20th Century Fox gets its way. After a major court victory, the studio has announced a bid to block the release of Warner Bros.’ anticipated adaptation of the seminal graphic novel by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. Fox originally tried to develop the project more than a decade [...]

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Tuesday, June 10th, 2008

Betcha didn’t know a building could be copyrighted…

Good thing we have copyright to encourage encourage artists: Making Your Case for a Permit If you do decide that a permit is the way to go (in other words, you’re going to use a tripod), one thing they will want to know is, “What will the photos be used for?” They may ask if [...]

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Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

The Hidden Costs of Documentaries

Good thing we have copyright, to encourage artists to create new works. The Hidden Cost of Documentaries Clearance costs – licensing fees paid to copyright holders for permission to use material like music, archival photographs and film and news clips – can send expenses for filmmakers soaring into the hundreds of thousands of dollars. Jonathan [...]

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