Are there benefits to “piracy”?
Thursday, November 6th, 2008 Posted in Business Law, Information Technology, Intellectual Property, Video Games | 1 Comment »The pro-copyright, pro-DMCA, anti-counterfeit lobby groups would have you believe that all unauthorized reproduction (and distribution), colloquially known (inaccurately) as piracy, is horrid for the industries concerned, and is destroying them. They go so far as to call it theft, ...
Why the RIAA should be subject to Judicial Review
Monday, March 24th, 2008 Posted in Information Technology, Intellectual Property | No Comments »Nate Anderson of Ars Technica published a piece on March 11 entitled, "RIAA tells Ars: We're not hypocrites". Essentially it boils down to this: The RIAA's collective spin-off -- in some ways similar to SOCAN here -- is ...
Michael Geist lauds CRIA; jeers RIAA’s “hassle” policy
Monday, March 10th, 2008 Posted in Intellectual Property | 1 Comment »The difference between commercial piracy and private copying was clear in the Copyright Act's s.80, it was made clearer by BMG v. John Doe, and now we can see the difference in action. Professor Michael Geist compares the RIAA's ...
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