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- A Response to Declan McCullagh: Political Participation for Geeks is a Must
... to do the other. For example, take the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. The code that would allow someone to play a DVD on my GNU/Linux ... - legislation regulating tobacco and campaign finance reform are just two examples where the American people have won over large ...
Story - Webmaster - Jun 12 2009 - 11:49am - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Newspapers Betray Their Heritage With Internet Attacks
... damage of destroying the few remaining protections in copyright law due to the users of material. The sense of entitlement that has ... are now handicapped trying to survive there. Regulatory reform is needed because the playing field has become so uneven.” Actually, ...
Blog entry - Art Brodsky - May 18 2009 - 3:22pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Six Steps to Digital Copyright Sanity: Reforming a Pre-VCR Law for a YouTube World
... 2007 Thank you for inviting me to speak today about copyright and the challenge of balancing creators’ and users’ ... provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, or DMCA, have limited access to and use of digital content by preventing ... creativity and free speech. They are: Fair use reform; limits on secondary liability; protections against copyright abuse; ...
Static Document - Gigi Sohn - Mar 9 2009 - 11:15am - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Napster Judge on Copyright Reform
... , spoke at Fordham Law last Monday and proposed a reform of copyright for the digital age. Her plan called for the establishment of a ... reform of copyright law similar to the Telecommunications Act of 1996: a revamp catered to the digital age. Copyright ...
Blog entry - Sarah Jameson - Dec 6 2008 - 10:53pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Letter to Obama Administration Seeking 'Balance' in Intellectual Property Appointments
... Court in Sony v. Universal (1984) recognized that copyright law must achieve a “difficult balance between the interests of ... we must not only protect IP, but also “update and reform our copyright and patent systems to promote civic discourse, innovation, ...
Static Document - Webmaster - Apr 6 2009 - 10:39am - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Obama Administration Asked for ‘Balance’ in Intellectual Property Appointments
... prior to their appointments, represented the concentrated copyright industries.” It is time, the group said, to take into account ... we must not only protect IP, but also “update and reform our copyright and patent systems to promote civic discourse, innovation, ...
Press Release - Art Brodsky - Apr 2 2009 - 1:16pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- New Zealand Government Abandons Three Strikes Mandate
... notices alleging that a user had engaged in acts of copyright infringement. As I noted in an earlier blog post , the passage of ... say, this represents a significant victory for copyright reform activists and the public and deals a major blow to the content industry ...
Blog entry - Mehan Jayasuriya - Mar 24 2009 - 2:40pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Written Testimony of Gigi B. Sohn: Reauthorization of the Satellite Home Viewer Extension and Reauthorization Act
... and reduced competition. In its report on SHVERA, the Copyright Office recognizes a number of problems in existing law and makes a ... should Congress unify the statutory license and reform retransmission consent and distant signal restrictions as the groups ...
Static Document - Webmaster - Feb 24 2009 - 11:03am - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- PISC Reply Comments on Exemption to the Prohibition of Circumvention of Copyright Protection Systems for Access Control Technolo
... Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (2008 NPRM) issued by the Copyright Office and Library of Congress regarding Exemptions to Prohibition on ... Alliance is only part of the solution; [15] reform in telecommunications law must provide the rest. [16] But, ...
Static Document - Webmaster - Feb 3 2009 - 12:22pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Oral Testimony of Gigi B. Sohn: Reauthorization of the Satellite Home Viewer Extension and Reauthorization Act
... are no longer relevant. In its report on SHVERA, the Copyright Office emphasized that regulatory parity between MVPDs is a ... trade for significant regulatory relief. Second, reform retransmission consent rules to promote competition and eliminate unfair ...
Static Document - Webmaster - Feb 24 2009 - 11:02am - 0 comments - 0 attachments
