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When health problems kept guitarist Mike Thole from going on the road, the Sunday night workshops at Bo Diddley s became his musical refuge.
Thole, now 60, suffered several complications from a childhood bout with polio, including arthritis in his back and leg and pain from a recent hip replacement.
By this summer, the pain was so bad he could no longer tour with his band.
We don t use cover bands -Brian Lee
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Tomorrow morning Lord Mandelson will present the Digital Economy Bill to the public, which among other things is aimed at reducing illicit file-sharing.
According to parts of the bill that leaked today, the legislation could lead to jail terms for file-sharers and unprecedented power for the entertainment industries.
Over the past months the UK government has tried to tackle the issue of online piracy.
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Warner Music Group Funny... isn't it, that all these companies and industry groups are supporting a deal that no one's seen yet?
Oh wait... that's because many of them have seen it and actually have had a hand in creating it.
But what's really damning is that no where in the letter do they explain why this is actually needed or how it will do anything valuable.
more news on: Intellectual property law news
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Danny Sullivan does a great job calling out the hypocrisy of the Associated Press yet again.
The organization, which has taken a very maximalist position on copyright, where fair use gets mostly ignored , apparently had no problem scanning Sarah Palin's entire book into a computer so that reporters could search it.
Of course, this is no different than what Google is doing with its book scanning program (which, again, I still believe is a clear case of fair use).
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[It] includes massive changes to copyright law, including the power of the government to effectively change the law at will with little to no oversight.
Basically, it would let the Business Secretary, Lord Mandelson, change copyright law through secondary legislation, which requires no Parliamentary approval.
As people are noting, Mandelson has had to resign from elected positions twice in the past in disgrace, and is now in an unelected position.
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If you don't back a copyright treaty being negotiated in secret, you must want to destroy Hollywood, its blockbuster movies and all the jobs they create.
At least that's the message from the Motion Picture Association of America.
It's spelled out in a Thursday memo to the Senate Judiciary Committee, urging lawmakers to support the Obama administration's efforts toward negotiating an intellectual property agreement with more than a dozen countries.
Opponents of ACTA are either indifferent to this situation, or actively hostile toward efforts to improve copyright enforcement worldwide -Dan Glickman
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We've mentioned the ongoing lawsuit against ISP iiNet in Australia a few times.
Basically, the movie studios are pissed off at iiNet because it didn't do much in response to letters that were sent concerning IP addresses of those that the studios believed were sharing unauthorized works.
As iiNet noted, however, it didn't see why it was involved in any of this: They send us a list of IP addresses and say 'this IP address was involved in a breach on this date'.
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