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Well, the semester is coming to a close. For me that just means a variation of “summer vacation” – in other words, just full-time work! It has all been worth the work. Check out my completed online project here. The official title is: Balancing innovation, fair use and copyright protection in digital media: debating the Digital Millennium [...] Tonight, we had our first CopyNight in Pittsburgh. Stu started the evening with an important question, “What enrages you about copyright?” At first, the rage was meek. Some of the time was spent discussing the DMCA basics and why the everyday person might care about copyright law. From the common ideas we found issues that related more [...] Pittsburgh’s first CopyNight: Tuesday, March 28, 7:00pm at The Church Brew Works. “CopyNight is a monthly social gathering of people interested in restoring balance in copyright law. We meet over drinks once a month in many cities to discuss new developments and build social ties between artists, engineers, filmmakers, academics, lawyers, and many others.” www.copynight.org The Pirate Bay and Swedes on Copyright Law – Well, I had no idea that there was this famous P2P file sharing site called The Pirate Bay. Apparently it has escaped the MPAA’s wrath during a few rounds of legal attacks on P2P file sharing sites. There is support for pirating in Sweden, so much [...] I apologize for the unannounced vacation from blog entries. But I am back now and you get a bit of a rant today. The topic is this story from the NYT: Labels Halt Downloads to Increase CD Sales Not quite a direct DMCA issue, although indirectly the market will affect the policies chosen. So, as mentioned in [...] http://www.the315.com/dgproject/index.htm It is the start of a pretty rough shell. It is missing most of the content and I don’t like the color scheme already… Illegal copying is widespread in Scotland – Now its time to crackdown on the cd & dvd black market. Jail time for someone on every street? How to get that DVD onto your iPod – As the Wired writer says, “proceed at your own risk.” And, Lessig on Microsoft’s new InfoCard. Sounds like he is for it. [...] After a few weeks of going back and forth – and getting helpful input from prof. Stu yesterday – I have finally decided on a topic. Perhaps it is not a huge realization, but I feel more confident this time. I am going to make a “primer” website on the DMCA/DMCRA/DMR related issues. In other words, [...] I will look further into this matter but here we go: Argument: Copying cds for personal backup is NOT fair use. I. Introduction to identify a digital citizen |
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