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<rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Copyright law | The Love Network</title><link>http://copyright-law.love.com</link><language>en-us</language><docs>http://copyright-law.love.com/rss.xml</docs><description>A Blog with news about Copyright law</description><copyright>AOL LLC. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only.</copyright><generator>Blogsmith | Relegence | AOL LLC.</generator><item><title>PAPT launches new nationwide campaign to map out software piracy-free zones</title><link>http://t.love.com/310927280</link><description><![CDATA[The Pilipinas Anti-Piracy Team (PAPT), composed of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI), the Optical Media Board (OMB) and the Philippine National Police (PNP), has launched an all-out campaign this year to go after businesses using pirated software in a determined effort to map out several major business centers as software piracy-free zones. 
The campaign has already started in Makati, where companies were given until March 26 to legalize their software or face the risks of a PAPT raid or routine in]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 2:48:00</pubDate></item><item><title>Seen that? - Happy New Year from the French ...</title><link>http://t.love.com/310888027</link><description><![CDATA[<img src="http://www.creative-weblogging.com/images/small_default-cw.jpg"><br>for music lovers, that is. 
France May Allow P2P Downloads. 
The French Parliament voted to allow free downloads of copyright content from the Internet for private use. ]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 22:34:00</pubDate></item><item><title>Hot News Is Back: Court Blocks Website From Reporting The News</title><link>http://t.love.com/310887114</link><description><![CDATA[In the last few years, there's been a push by some companies to bring back the immensely troubling "hot news doctrine," that appears to violate everything we know about the First Amendment and copyright law. 
Basically, the "hot news doctrine" says that if someone reports on a story, others are not allowed to report on their reporting for some period of time -- on the theory that it somehow undermines the incentive to do that original reporting. 
Last year, we wrote about the very troubling implications of ]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 22:30:00</pubDate></item><item><title>Would UK Politicians Support The Digital Economy Bill If It Applied To Offline Activities As Well?</title><link>http://t.love.com/310878621</link><description><![CDATA[Finally, point 5 would be very interesting. 
Could you imagine the police coming and turfing you out of a building you've legitimately bought, and putting it back on the market without paying you a penny, simply because you knew it was in a good location and could make some money off of the future sale? 
Somehow I don't think that's all too likely! ]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:30:00</pubDate></item><item><title>Reasons to care about Viacom v. Google (FAQ)</title><link>http://t.love.com/310878245</link><description><![CDATA[<img src="http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/tim//2010/03/19/paramount1_540x361.jpg"><br>The documents, filed in federal court in New York, had everything from accusations of young, Silicon Valley entrepreneurs cynically ignoring the law as they sought their fortune, to claims of duplicity from a New York media conglomerate trying to embrace a start-up's youthful audience, even while it was threatening to sue that start-up into oblivion. 
Oh yeah, and they revealed that the conglomerate also considered buying the little company, which made the entrepreneurs multimillionaires upon selling it to ]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:29:00</pubDate></item><item><title>Copyright Action, Singapore Dep’t</title><link>http://t.love.com/310862267</link><description><![CDATA[The High Court of Singapore has agreed to hear the appeal in an important copyright infringement case against RecordTV (that I blogged about a year or so ago ...). 
It's an interesting case on several fronts — For one thing, it replicates almost perfectly, on the facts, the very important Cartoon Network v Cablevision case from last year in the Second Circuit, and, in this globalizing world of ours, it's always interesting to see how courts in different countries address the same issues. 


The facts are pr]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 19:53:00</pubDate></item><item><title>MP Charlie Angus proposes copyright levy</title><link>http://t.love.com/310845332</link><description><![CDATA[The New Democratic Party's critic on the copyright file, Charlie Angus (Timmins-James Bay), has introduced two proposals to amend the Copyright Act that would help balance the interest of both creators and consumers in the digital age. 


According to a news release from the MP's office, Angus tabled Bill C-499, which would adapt the successful Private Copying Levy to the current generation of copying devices, such as MP3 players. 
As well, he introduced a motion on "fair dealing" that would protect the rea]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:41:00</pubDate></item><item><title>The Onion Puts Out An Equally Accurate Report On Recording Industry Revenue Issues</title><link>http://t.love.com/310842277</link><description><![CDATA[The Recording Industry Association of America announced Tuesday that the combined revenue brought in by Warner, Sony, EMI, Universal, and countless independent music labels in 2009 totaled $18. 
"The music industry is back," RIAA representative Doug Fowley said. 
"Not only was Kenny Chesney's Greatest Hits CD purchased at a Knoxville, TN Borders for $12.99, but we also had two songs downloaded through iTunes, and our ringtone sales reached three." ]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:30:00</pubDate></item><item><title>Make 2010 The Year Of Clean Intellectual Property</title><link>http://t.love.com/310841842</link><description><![CDATA[In 2008, the open source community saw the year end with a headline-catching lawsuit when the Free Software Foundation filed against Cisco for General Public License (GPL) violations. 
Not to be outdone, 2009 also ended with a bang. 
Best Buy, Samsung, JVC, and eleven other consumer electronics companies were named in a copyright infringement lawsuit filed on December 14, 2009 by the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) on behalf of the Software Freedom Conservancy . ]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:28:00</pubDate></item><item><title>God of War Lawsuit Thrown Out; Sony and Jaffe Win</title><link>http://t.love.com/310840041</link><description><![CDATA[As if often the case with many successful intellectual properties, lawsuits flock around them. 
David Jaffe and Sony's God of War was not immune to this as two screenwriters, Jonathan Bissoon-Dath and Jennifer Dath, claimed that the plot to God of War was too similar to works they had began distributing in 2002. 


David Jaffe, creator of the original God of War, and Sony Computer Entertainment America were named as defendants. ]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:20:00</pubDate></item><item><title>Olson on Copyright Misuse &amp; the First Amendment</title><link>http://t.love.com/310812088</link><description><![CDATA[David S. Olson (Boston College Law School) has posted First Amendment Based Copyright Misuse on SSRN. 
We are at a crossroads with respect to the under-developed equitable defense of copyright misuse. 
The defense may go the way of its sibling, antitrust-based patent misuse, which seems to be in a state of inevitable decline. ]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:32:00</pubDate></item><item><title>Free Software To Save Us From Social Networks</title><link>http://t.love.com/310811100</link><description><![CDATA[]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:30:00</pubDate></item><item><title>Opening Hardware at Eyebeam</title><link>http://t.love.com/310779579</link><description><![CDATA[<img src="http://blog.makezine.com/firstarduinoomgstarstruck.jpg"><br>We all agree open sourcing hardware is important, and as practitioners, many of us have been involved in work, research and talks about it. 
To date, no universal "right solution" exists. 
While Creative Commons licenses are widely used for software, there is a growing number of groups using the licenses for hardware, without necessarily accounting for the difficulties and restrictions hardware imposes. ]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:44:00</pubDate></item><item><title>March Madness Region South Sweater Puppies (16 images)</title><link>http://t.love.com/310770764</link><description><![CDATA[<img src="http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y164/wteach/pictorials/Cheerleaders/p1_duke.jpg"><br>All posts here are my views. 
None represent my employer. 
If ye can prove me wrong, so be it. ]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:12:00</pubDate></item><item><title>Decision on Google library likely to change publishing indelibly</title><link>http://t.love.com/310767976</link><description><![CDATA[At stake is access to millions of texts, billions of pages, trillions of words that constitute nothing less than human memory and identity. 


At stake, too, is who gets paid -- a decision that could affect the future of the publishing industry. 


Suppose you want to read, say, Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" in the original edition. ]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:03:00</pubDate></item><item><title>PowerPoint Protection by LockLizard secures PowerPoint presentations with strong copy protection</title><link>http://t.love.com/310764674</link><description><![CDATA[LockLizard are pleased to announce a new approach to PowerPoint security: delivering high level copy protection for PowerPoint presentations enhanced by converting to Flash (SWF) format. 


New PowerPoint protection features include encryption and DRM controls that prevent PowerPoint presentations from unauthorized copying, modifying, sharing, screen grabbing, printing, saving and unauthorized distribution, all without the use of passwords. 
Publishers can also expire and revoke presentations at any time. 
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:57:00</pubDate></item><item><title>Batavia man faces Federal complaint for sharing files on sex site</title><link>http://t.love.com/310734828</link><description><![CDATA[A Federal complaint was filed in Buffalo last week against a Batavia man accused of sharing pictures online in a chatroom depicting naked young girls in revealing positions. 


A federal agent was monitoring the chatroom as an administrator on the two occasions when the Batavia man allegedly entered the discussion area. 


Samuel W. Nigro, of 145 Trumbull Parkway, is accused of violating Title 18, United States Code, Section 2256(8), which deals with interstate commerce and using both physical and digital m]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:31:00</pubDate></item><item><title>New ACTA leak: It's a screwjob for the world's poor countries</title><link>http://t.love.com/310729318</link><description><![CDATA[The secret Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement has leaked again. 
Michael Geist has analysis below: New ACTA leaks have emerged this week that fill in the blanks about the remainder of the still-secret treaty. 
While earlier leaks provided extensive detail on the Internet and civil enforcement chapters, these latest leaks shed new light into the criminal enforcement section, the chapter on ACTA institutional issues, and international cooperation. 

]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:12:00</pubDate></item><item><title>Semantic sh*t happens</title><link>http://t.love.com/310710567</link><description><![CDATA[......with its suggestions of theft, destruction, and violence. 
The "pirates" have now co-opted the term, adopting it with gusto and hoisting the Jolly Roger across the Internet (The Pirate Bay being the most famous example). 


Some of those concerned about online copyright infringement now realize that they may have created a monster by using the term "piracy." ]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:25:00</pubDate></item><item><title>Seven thousand people email their MPs in under two days</title><link>http://t.love.com/310693068</link><description><![CDATA[A tidal wave of objections to disconnection being rushed through Parliament are reach MPs inboxes. 


The numbers have exceeded even our expectations, but we are all clear that disconnection is wrong as a punishment. 


It should be no surprise to corporate lobbyists like the BPI are busy trying to write our copyright law, and forcing attempts to curtail our human rights to favour their business interests. 

]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 10:32:00</pubDate></item><item><title>Dodd Makes Minor Changes in Securitization Plan That Leave Industry Groups Dissatisfied</title><link>http://t.love.com/310666981</link><description><![CDATA[All rights reserved. 
Photocopying or electronic distribution of this web page or any of its contents without prior written consent of the publisher violates U.S. copyright law, and is punishable by statutory damages of up to $150,000 per infringement, plus attorneys' fees (17 USC 504 et seq.). 
Without advance permission, illegal copying includes regular photocopying, faxing, excerpting, forwarding electronically, and sharing of online access. 

 ]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 9:03:00</pubDate></item><item><title>Fighting for pirate rights</title><link>http://t.love.com/310656316</link><description><![CDATA[<img src="http://m.gmgrd.co.uk/res/445.$plit/C_71_article_1200988_image_list_image_list_item_0_image.jpg?19%2F03%2F2010%2010%3A41%3A59%3A962"><br>Graeme Lambert feels so strongly about his right to share copyrighted tracks from CDs with friends that he is standing for Parliament. 


The 18-year-old bookmaker from Bury was unveiled last night as one of two candidates who will represent the Pirate Party UK at the polls. 


It will no doubt help his cause that the Bury North constituency – left vacant by the controversial Labour MP David Chaytor – includes at least a few thousand students of the age of people most likely to be the most prolific internet]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 8:34:00</pubDate></item><item><title>UK Music chief: 'Digital Economy Bill will be passed before election'</title><link>http://t.love.com/310622787</link><description><![CDATA[He said the Bill was a vital step in dealing with unauthorised online music sharing, ensuring that the music business would continue to grow online and making sure that the creative industries were properly valued. 


Sharkey criticised the "scaremongering" surrounding the Bill and dismissed claims that internet users would be disconnected if found guilty of illicit filesharing. 


He said: "I think it's astonishing that anybody is still using the word 'disconnecting'. One national newspaper was running a h]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 6:32:00</pubDate></item><item><title>DeFence of Gay Rights</title><link>http://t.love.com/310580708</link><description><![CDATA[This site contains images and excerpts the use of which have not been pre-authorized. 
This material is made available for the purpose of analysis and critique, as well as to advance the understanding of political, media and cultural issues. 


The 'fair use' of such material is provided for under U.S. ]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 3:52:00</pubDate></item><item><title>Anti-piracy raids resume on holy week</title><link>http://t.love.com/310571984</link><description><![CDATA[The Pilipinas Anti-Piracy Team is resuming its crackdown during holy week against firms using unlicensed software, according to authorities. 


Chief Supt. Francisco Don Montenegro, Criminal Investigation and Detection Group said establishments have until March 26 to make sure no pirated copies are found their premises. 


"Business owners must legalize their software immediately," he said, noting that raids have been lined up starting March 28. 

]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 3:15:00</pubDate></item><item><title>£100m investment offer is strictly business</title><link>http://t.love.com/310563243</link><description><![CDATA[<img src="http://cdn.wn.com/ph/img/23/cb/498ed36e1705b1c221de5eb0bac8-grande.jpg"><br>hey guys haven't made a video in a while so here it is. 
Just Subscribe to Find out what we will merchant next. :
D I do not own the game runescape which is the property of Jagex LTD. All the music belongs to their respective artists and producers. ]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 2:27:00</pubDate></item><item><title>Video: NSW Police step up anti-piracy raids</title><link>http://t.love.com/310536868</link><description><![CDATA[Two searches in two days net $25,000 of illegal DVDs. 


NSW Police and film industry investigators have busted a video store allegedly selling pirated DVDs in Marrickville in Sydney's inner west. 


Officers raided the store yesterday and seized 1,500 allegedly pirated films and "a burner operation" allegedly used to make them. 

]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 0:10:00</pubDate></item><item><title>Indonesia up in arms as country re-enters US watch list</title><link>http://t.love.com/310526239</link><description><![CDATA[The United States has once again put Indonesia into its Priority Watch List of countries with rampant copyright infringement, despite claims by the government in Jakarta of progress on that front. 


Eleven other countries are included on the list, such as China, India, Thailand and the Philippines. 


The Indonesian government has called for the country to be struck off the list, citing its efforts to uphold intellectual property rights (IPRs). 

]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 23:12:00</pubDate></item><item><title>On Not Learning Why Girl Talk Hasn't Been Sued</title><link>http://t.love.com/310524528</link><description><![CDATA[Apparently, if one is interested in learning why it is that the record labels have not sued Girl Talk, the SXSW panel entitled "Why the Record Labels Have Not Sued Girl Talk" is not the place to go a-lookin'. 
You may come away with a new sense of the seemingly arbitrary ambiguities of copyright law, distilled in questions like: "why it is that Warhol wasn't sued for the Campbell soup can when Biz Markie had his baggy pants sued off him for sampling Parliament?" 
As to why the record labels haven't sued Gir]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 23:01:00</pubDate></item><item><title>Researcher sued for naughty Acrobat install</title><link>http://t.love.com/310516794</link><description><![CDATA[A researcher who had promised to install Acrobat Reader on a female student's computer showed her pornographic images instead, the Federal Court has heard. 


The case of Huang v University of New South Wales (UNSW) was first introduced in April 2005, but has been prolonged by issues with unavailable witnesses and "unreliable" evidence since. 


On 4 March, it appeared before Justice Arthur Robert Emmett of the Federal Court in relation to obtaining evidence from a witness who had moved overseas. 

]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 22:25:00</pubDate></item><item><title>Contact: AlienPhotog Interviews David Eckhart</title><link>http://t.love.com/310513015</link><description><![CDATA[Hotlinking of P&M Network images and copyrighted material is strictly forbidden unless permission is obtained. 

* 
Have you had a close encounter or witnessed something unusual? 


Disclaimer: 

]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 22:03:00</pubDate></item><item><title>Haemonetics licenses reagants from Quotient</title><link>http://t.love.com/310491359</link><description><![CDATA[BRAINTREE, Mass. Blood collection and processing systems maker Haemonetics Corp. said Thursday it licensed reagents developed by Quotient Biodiagnostics Group's Alba Bioscience business. 


The deal includes future milestone payments, but other financial terms were not disclosed. 


The agreement gives Haemonetics exclusive rights to Alba's approved reagents for use with its Arryx laser-based blood typing platform. 

]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:03:00</pubDate></item><item><title>Opinion: Benefiting from free photography, or how they know me in Russia</title><link>http://t.love.com/310462761</link><description><![CDATA[<img src="http://media.mlive.com/businessreview/western_impact/photo/depolojpg-d40676d21779cd5f_small.jpg"><br>Having spent $50,000 on art history degrees, I thought it was time to begin exploring my creativity. 
I went to shows at the DAAC and UICA and posted photos of my friends online. 
People seemed to like what I was doing. 

]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 18:22:00</pubDate></item><item><title>Digital piracy costly EU billions</title><link>http://t.love.com/310461463</link><description><![CDATA[Europeans downloaded €10-billion worth of pirated music, film, television shows and software from the web in 2008, an entertainment industry study said on Wednesday. 


The International Chamber of Commerce said its report showed that digital piracy could escalate and cost media and entertainment industries €240-billion in retail revenue and 1,2 million jobs by 2015. 


"For us, file sharing is another word for theft," Agnete Haaland, the head of the International Actors Federation told reporters. 

]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 18:19:00</pubDate></item><item><title>Apparently The Word 'Piracy' No Longer Sufficiently Derogatory For Entertainment Industry</title><link>http://t.love.com/310457408</link><description><![CDATA[We already wrote about the release this week of a highly misleading report about how many jobs "piracy" was going to "cost" Europe. 
"We should change the word piracy," she told reporters at the unveiling of the report on Wednesday. 


"To me, piracy is something adventurous, it makes you think about Johnny Depp. We all want to be a bit like Johnny Depp. But we're talking about a criminal act. We're talking about making it impossible to make a living from what you do," she said. ]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 18:02:00</pubDate></item><item><title>Summary Box: Court records show YouTube founders views on copyright</title><link>http://t.love.com/310456929</link><description><![CDATA[<img src="http://imagegallery.taragana.com/images/tgn/2010/02/25/google-youtube_109048_M.jpg"><br>YouTube co-founder Steve Chen once warned fellow co-founder Jawed Karim to stop posting pirated videos on their Web site, according to court documents unsealed Thursday as part of a 3-year-old copyright lawsuit. 
That bit of intrigue was among the confidential information that had been kept under wraps since Viacom Inc. 


March 5th, 2010 The copyright infringement case between Viacom and Google has ignited up. ]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:59:00</pubDate></item><item><title>O2 says net piracy letters 'bully' web users</title><link>http://t.love.com/310311359</link><description><![CDATA[O2 has slammed a UK law firm for issuing letters to web users suspected of illegal file-sharing, saying they "bully or threaten" consumers. 


In January, it was revealed that ACS:Law had issued letters to around 150 Brits , claiming they had illegally downloaded content from the web. 


ACS:Law said it was acting on behalf of DigiProtect, an anti-piracy firm that represents a number of copyright holders, and the recipient was required to pay a £500 fine and sign a legal undertaking agreeing not to illegall]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:21:00</pubDate></item><item><title>Dear President Obama: Get ACTA out in the open</title><link>http://t.love.com/310448412</link><description><![CDATA[<img src="http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/ne/pg/fd_2009/042909_obama.jpg"><br>Now, ACTA covers a lot of ground that the president is concerned about, such as physical copying of goods--the actual counterfeiting in the Counterfeiting name. 
But as you may know by now, it also contains some seriously disturbing, broad-stroke IP law that could have a devastating effect on the way the Internet works--on research, content creation and innovation, search and seizure, and much more. 


So, I'm asking you, Mr. President: if we're going to move forward on ACTA, let's first move forward on neg]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:31:00</pubDate></item><item><title>David Oxenford Moderates Panels on Music Rights and Licensing at RAIN Summit North and Digital Music Forum East</title><link>http://t.love.com/310443543</link><description><![CDATA[In the last two weeks, David Oxenford has, at two different conferences, moderated panels on digital music rights and licenses. 
At the Digital Music Forum East , in New York City on February 25, 2010, his panel focused on rights and licenses generally, featuring panelists from SoundExchange, BMI, the Harry Fox Agency, Rightsflow and MediaNet . 
As a handout, David provided copies of Davis Wright Tremaine's Guide to The Basics of Digital Music Licensing , available here . ]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:25:00</pubDate></item><item><title>iiNet confident over legal stoush</title><link>http://t.love.com/310402127</link><description><![CDATA[Internet service provider iiNet says it is confident it will succeed in defending an appeal in its legal stoush over illegal downloading. 

iiNet on Thursday filed a notice of contention in the Federal Court seeking to reaffirm the court's finding in February that the internet provider could not be held responsible for what its customers did online. 


A consortium of 34 movie studios that took the original action against iiNet are appealing Justice Dennis Cowdroy's ruling. 


The studios are headed by Vill]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:18:00</pubDate></item></channel></rss>