Showing posts with label fair use. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fair use. Show all posts
27 October 2013

Australian Copyright Industry Says Proposal To Bring In Fair Use Is 'Solution For Problem That Doesn't Exist'

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A couple of months back, Techdirt wrote about Australia's proposals to shift from the current fair dealing approach to fair use as p...
13 October 2012

Lacking Fair Use Rights, Argentina Tries To Increase Access To Copyright Works, With Mixed Results

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If you think copyright is bad in regions like the US or Europe, this post from Intellectual Property Watch points out that things could be...
06 April 2009

Google's Perpetual Monopoly on Orphan Works

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Here's an interesting analysis of the Google Book Search settlement. This, you will recall, resolved the suit that authors and publish...
13 January 2009

SAP True to its Name

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What is going through the mind of SAP? These people are *promoting* your products: Business Objects claims that no one can use a Crystal R...
03 December 2007

Don't Steal This Book, Michael

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The Kindle is a breakthrough device, in many ways analogous to the first iPod. Just as the iPod brought MP3 players to the masses, the Kindl...
01 November 2007

Bring on the Fair Use Dolphins

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A couple of weeks ago I wrote about the unsatisfactory UGC Principles put together by media companies, particularly with regard to the exig...
19 October 2007

UGC "Principles" - Ugh!

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Here's a fatuous little document : Copyright Principles for UGC Services Leading commercial copyright owners (“Copyright Owners”) and se...
13 September 2007

Fair Use Worth More Than Copyright

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Fair use (fair dealing in the UK) is the Cinderella in the world of intellectual monopolies. Some brazen monopolists have even gone so far ...
02 August 2007

Google's Choice of Hercules

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Further to yesterday's post about a call to respect free use of copyrighted material, here's an interesting point about Google'...
01 August 2007

Playing Fair with Fair Use

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A straw in the digital wind? Today, the Computer and Communications Industry Association -- a group representing companies including Google...
22 June 2007

WIPO Webcast Wipe-Out?

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Good news, it seems : World Intellectual Property Organization negotiations for a treaty on rights for broadcasters broke down at the eleven...
06 March 2007

Real Openness, Real Guts

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Carl Malamud is one of the original digital pioneers, probably best-known for founding Internet Multicasting Service and Internet Talk Radi...
14 February 2007

Sinning Against the Holy God of American IP

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Even for the field of intellectual monopolies, which is strewn with examples of hypocrisy and bullying, this " 301 report " from t...
23 January 2007

China Mobile: More Users Than the Entire US

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Think about it : There are more mobile phone subscribers at one Chinese operator than people in the entire U.S., according to figures China ...
28 July 2006

The French Disease

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For a nation of rationalists, France's DADVSI law is a seriously irrational piece of legislation that guts not just fair use, but compr...
12 May 2006

Why Copyright Is Broken

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When over half of those asked in a poll admit to breaching copyright law - which means the real number is likely to be much higher - there ...
25 April 2006

Now It's Trademarks' Turn

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I've written a fair amount about patent woes in these posts (some would probably say too much). And in many ways, patents are easy pick...
22 January 2006

VIIV, DRM, and Fair Use: the Big One

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The ever-acute Doc Searls reports on the CES keynote from Intel CEO Paul Otellini. Given Searls' position as an alpha blogger, it was...