CNN: “Aging Rockers Set To Lose Copyrights” (UK mulls copyright extensions, background here).
Lawgarithms On UMG v. MySpace
Lawgarithms (aka Denise Howell): UMG sues MySpace in a no-lose proposition, draws Grokster judge.”
Not Safe For Work Depending On Where You Work
DMCA ‘Circumvention’ Exemptions
Librarian of Congress: Statement on Section 1201 Rulemaking (allowing six exemptions for the DMCA prohibition on circumventing anti-copying technology.
Copyright Term Extension For Sound Recordings in the UK?
Copyfight: “No ‘Sergeant Pepper’ Law in the UK”
IPKat speculates on same.
Mobblog: The Piracy Paradox – Innovation in Fashion
They sell jeans for $1300? The University of Chicago hosts a virtual seminar on “The Piracy Paradox: Innovation and Intellectual Property in Fashion Design.”
“Why News Corp Won’t Sue Google”
Bambi Francisco (Marketwatch): “Why News Corp Won’t sue Google” (discussion of how integrated media companies such as News Corp, find themselves in conflict as both copyright owners and, as in the case of News Corp which owns MySpace, copyright ‘fair users.’
Err On A G String
Procol Harum was named after the band’s manager’s cat and is almost the Latin for ‘beyond these things’ (the correct Latin would be Procul Harum). OK, now that we got that out of the way, “A Whiter Shade Of Pale” was released in 1967. Now they are fighting over it. Today’s episode of SoundCheck
More on CopyBot / SecondLife
This is a video illustrating how a cloning program works on SecondLife. What you are seeing is explained in whats seems to be the most comprehensive account of the CopyBot incident from New World Notes, including an interview with the people who wrote the original program.
IPTABlog discusses the CopyBot rampage on SecondLife and
CopyBot Terrorizing Residents Of SecondLife, Caught On Video
We have been following SecondLife, a popular virtual world, which has been gaining traction as a demo site for ‘real world’ product roll-outs, ‘remote’ conferencing and the like. A key point is that the digital creations, such as the appearance of avatars (the digital representations of the users) and the structures, have real value,