Prof Patry: “Copyright Modernization Act of 2006.”

NYPost: Universal Music Warns Web Video Swapper. Universal Music head suggests that they will be asking Youtube to get paid soon. Interesting reference to MTV as a ‘costly mistake’ and ‘a hard lesson’ that the musci industry will not repeat.

Link to a motion to extend deadlines in which Warner Bros. suggests that it will depose the deceased defendant’s children. I would be interested in knowing the amount in controversy. Via Boing Boing.

Discussion of self-help terms in software license for robotic parking garage, via Wired.

This Boing Boing post on YouTube’s terms of service as it pertains to any rights it reserves in the user’s submissions, illustrates a common pattern of how the blogosphere puzzles out contractual terms:
1. Alarmist Parade of Horribles (YouTube will own your stuff and sell it)
2. Amen Chorus in Comment Thread (Those thieving…

All things considered, I would rather not start the day reading in the NY Times that someone who works for me was accused of copyright infringement, even erroneously, but there you are.
Net Neutrality is an important issue and Seante Commerce Committee chairman Ted Stevens (R, Alaska), who was ridiculed last year for the Bridge…

WSJ (free for a while): “Making a Buck Off Your Pet-Trick Videos” (discussing websites such as Revver.com, that pay users for submitting content).
I’m reminded of the Talking Heads song ‘Found A Job,’ about people producing their own television shows, which song was only twenty five years ahead of its time.

Ken Jennings, Jeopardy champ, has a blog, and has written an excellent post on the protectability of facts, that is to say, fictional facts about sitcoms, such as Kramer’s first name. HT 43(b)log.