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- Live Blogging from World's Fair Use Day
... School of Communications. The purpose of copyright is to promote culture, with “limited” monopoly and ... Nina questions why conference is on fair use. She wants reform, which will mean less work for lawyers, while lawyers get more work with ... Rep. Mike Doyle, D-PA, sponsor of community broadcasting act, member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. His bill will open up ...
Blog entry - Art Brodsky - Jan 13 2010 - 5:18pm - 1 comment - 0 attachments
- U.S. Chamber of Commerce uses the DMCA to silence critic
Copyright owners have often used the DMCA’s notice and take down procedure to ... explaining that the Chamber’s shortsighted opposition to reform may hurt it in the long term, and endorsing the Kerry-Boxer bill. The ... Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) Copyright DMCA ...
Blog entry - Rashmi Rangnath - Oct 26 2009 - 9:43pm - 4 comments - 0 attachments
- Live Blogging from World's Fair Use Day: Panel 3 - Technology Unbound: Fair Use for Innovation
... about ont he last panel: the incredible strength which copyright law/flexibility of fair use brings to innovation. When you see # of ... that they care about fair use, would like to see (c) law reform, etc. How do individuals make their opinions known? AM: My ...
Blog entry - Jef Pearlman - Jan 12 2010 - 3:35pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- 'Tis the Season for Transition Meetings
... ranged from improving access to broadband to spectrum reform, to net neutrality, to text messaging to how to improve the FCC’s ... and outlets have clearing the rights to materials under copyright ( orphan works bill anyone?). These meetings are just the ...
Blog entry - Gigi Sohn - Dec 16 2008 - 6:49pm - 9 comments - 0 attachments
- Searching for the Possible in the Orphan Works Debate
... and who, through his 24-7 work as the first populist copyright reformer, made the existence of organizations like Public Knowledge ... laws, we have before us an opportunity for significant reform. What makes this legislation a no-brainer is that with the exception of ...
Blog entry - Gigi Sohn - May 20 2008 - 8:59pm - 11 comments - 0 attachments
- Reply Comments of Public Knowledge In the Matter of A National Broadband Plan for Our Future
... The Commission Should Reject Calls for Copyright Filtering, or Any Other Discriminatory “Network Management ... The FCC Has Broad Discretion To Reform USF . Over 50 commentors supported reforming the Universal Service ...
Static Document - Webmaster - Nov 11 2009 - 2:14pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Content and its Discontents: What Net Neutrality Does and Doesn't Mean for Copyright
... policy issues today — network neutrality and copyright enforcement — and I’ll talk about where they do and ... system. It has always confounded me that other media reform groups in Washington practically run away screaming when copyright ...
Static Document - Gigi Sohn - Oct 30 2009 - 3:41pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Public Knowledge: In The Know -- August 12, 2009
... Broadband Plan Public Knowledge Study Finds That Copyright Filtering is Harmful, Ineffective Net Neutrality Debate Heats ... and co-founder Gigi Sohn explains important media reform issues in under three minutes. PKTV is also where you’ll find ...
Story - Webmaster - Aug 12 2009 - 11:50am - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Patent Reform: Supreme Court to Review Bilski
... Arts,’ the constitutional objective of patent and copyright protection[,]” something PK believes in strongly. ... Patent Reform Patent Business method ...
Blog entry - Brian Rowe - Jun 11 2009 - 6:13pm - 1 comment - 0 attachments
- Reflections on the 10th Anniversary of the Sonny Bono Act
... the 10th anniversary of the enactment of the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998. That law extended copyright terms from ... hit a nerve, and became the impetus behind the copyright reform movement. Before 1998, the Electronic Frontier Foundation had ...
Blog entry - Gigi Sohn - Oct 30 2008 - 7:36am - 3 comments - 0 attachments
