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Tag Archives: RIAA
EU suggests reason and logic behind ACTA
According to the EU, ACTA will ignore “infringing goods [that] are not part of large scale traffic.” ACTA will also not force already taxed enforcement officers “to look for a couple of pirated songs on an i-Pod music player…” Continue reading
Posted in Civil Liberties, Information Technology, Intellectual Property
Tagged ACTA, Civil Liberties, copyfight, copyright, MPAA, RIAA
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RIAA and MPAA hijack the border (or someone like them)
Cyberion, at Tazzu, posted a link to the Vancouver Province story on the threatened border checks (ACTA) on the legitimacy of electronic media. (Cyberion’s post) I had some rather strong feelings, and ranted the following: This is one of the … Continue reading
Posted in Civil Liberties, Information Technology, Intellectual Property
Tagged ACTA, Civil Liberties, copyfight, copyright, DMCA, MPAA, RIAA
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Collective mens rea? Or a lack of musical supply…
Ben Jones of TorrentFreak published an article a couple of weeks ago discussing the 2008 Digital Entertainment Survey in the U.K., in which it was revealed not only that so-called “piracy” is rampant, even among the generally non-criminal element. What’s … Continue reading
Posted in Business Law, Intellectual Property
Tagged copyfight, entertainment survey, licensing, mp3, music, pop culture, RIAA
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Nine Inch Nails in the RIAA’s Coffin
According to Prof. Larry Lessig, Nine Inch Nails’ latest album has been released under Creative Commons. Kudos to Trent Reznor! http://lessig.org/blog/2008/03/nin_goes_cc.html I tried to comment but Prof. Lessig’s blog is giving me some sort of SQL error. Here is my … Continue reading
Posted in Humanities, Information Technology, Intellectual Property
Tagged copyfight, creative commons, Lessig, NIN, Nine Inch Nails, RIAA
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