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- The Shifted Librarian
[17699 hits, 4 votes, Average Rating 0.00] [Added: 26th Jun 2002]
A Radio weblog on libraries in the digital age - with lots of copyright implications, for a lot of reasons!

Therefore, a "shifted librarian" is someone who is working to make libraries more portable. We're experimenting with new methods, even if we find out they don't work as well as we thought they would. Sometimes, we're waiting for our colleagues, our bosses, and even the kids to catch up, but we're still out there trying. And please don't think I don't love books and print, because I do. No amount of technology will ever replace them, and libraries will always be a haven for books. It's the extras that I'm concentrating on, especially as we try to serve our remote patrons.

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- Pay-TV piracy Decrypting is costing the satellite and cable TV industry $6.5 billion a year
[9505 hits, 0 votes, Average Rating 0] [Added: 18th Jun 2002]
SFGate.com; Benny Evangelista; June 1y, 2002. Again, interesting accounting at the heart of a piracy discussion.

But officials of both the satellite and cable TV industries view these pirates as a multimillion-dollar headache -- not a game. In the past year, both industries have become more aggressive in their efforts to sink pay-TV pirates, including a new effort to use the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act to hunt down people who have illegal satellite hookups.
DirecTV, for example, has sent about 10,000 legal notices to people around the country in the past six months demanding that they stop using devices that decrypt satellite signals or face civil or criminal prosecution.
...Consumer electronics groups, however, fear that this battle to control TV piracy could be used to bolster arguments from entertainment companies that all future digital devices have built-in anti-piracy technology.

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- Fighting Free Music, Europeans Take Aim at Personal Computers
[9051 hits, 0 votes, Average Rating 0] [Added: 10th Jun 2001]
New York Times; Edmund Andrews; February 13, 2001 Rate this:

- Internet Digital Rights Management (IDRM)
[7524 hits, 0 votes, Average Rating 0] [Added: 14th Aug 2001]
Homepage of the IDRM, "an IRTF (Internet Research Task Force) Research Group formed to research issue [sic] and technologies relating to Digital Rights Management (DRM) on the Internet. The IRTF is a sister organization of the Internet engineering Task Force (IETF)." Rate this:

- Weatherall's Law
[7148 hits, 0 votes, Average Rating 0] [Added: 22nd Jan 2003]
Kim Weatherall's weblog on IP; Law Lecturer at the University of Sydney
Kim Weatherall now has a web log where she collects and comments on news and events in intellectual property and information technology/internet law:
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- PeerCast News
[7004 hits, 0 votes, Average Rating 0] [Added: 9th Jul 2002]
PeerCast News; weblog of Jonathan M. Peterson; music, ip, etc. Rate this:

- Does an Anti-Piracy Plan Quash the First Amendment?
[6696 hits, 0 votes, Average Rating 0] [Added: 23rd Mar 2002]
New York Times; Carl S. Kaplan; April 27, 2001. DeCSS and fair use discussed. "But there's a related question that has never been settled by the courts: Does fair use, which has its roots in the First Amendment, entitle the scholar, reporter or others to gain access to the copyrighted work in the first place -- -- especially when the material is guarded by a technological device designed to prevent digital piracy?" Rate this:

- The Darknet and the Future of Content Distribution
[6651 hits, 0 votes, Average Rating 0] [Added: 21st Nov 2002]
Microsoft Corporation; Presented at the ACM's Digital Rights Management Conference 2002. Authors: Peter Biddle, Paul England, Marcus Peinado, and Bryan Willman - Word File - Boing Boing reference Rate this:

- A Beautiful Life, an Early Death, a Fraud Exposed
[6540 hits, 0 votes, Average Rating 0] [Added: 31st May 2001]
New York Times; Katie Hafner; May 31, 2001. The Kaycee Nicole Swenson online hoax Rate this:

- The Hypetext Annotated Title 17
[6521 hits, 0 votes, Average Rating 0] [Added: 14th Jan 2002]
A well-hypertexted layout of the US Code for Copyright Rate this:

- Protecting Intellectual Property
[6448 hits, 13 votes, Average Rating 0.00] [Added: 20th Feb 2002]
New York Times; Sarah Milstein; February 18, 2002. Defensive publication of a concept instead of spending the money to patent it is getting a little more credible, according tot his article. Rate this:

- Music Services Aren't Napster, but the Industry Still Cries Foul
[6290 hits, 16 votes, Average Rating 0.25] [Added: 17th Apr 2002]
New York Times; Matt Richter; April 17, 2002. A look at the state of play in the digital music controversy Rate this:

- Sony Music Lobbies for Ban on Markers
[6256 hits, 0 votes, Average Rating 0] [Added: 23rd May 2002]
BBSpot; Brian Briggs; May 22, 2002. More on CD copy protection! Rate this:

- Hailstorm: Open Web Services Controlled By Microsoft
[6199 hits, 13 votes, Average Rating 0.00] [Added: 30th May 2001]
OpenP2P.com; Clay Shirkey; May 30, 2001. A new look at a use of copyright. There's a Slashdot discussion here Rate this:

- Border controls crumble in DVD land
[6181 hits, 0 votes, Average Rating 0] [Added: 19th Aug 2002]
BBC.com; Paul Rubens; August 19, 2002. Slashdot discussion: DVD Region Encoding on Verge of Collapse?
Hollywood fixed the DVD market so films could only be played in the region they were purchased. But viewers got round it with "cheat codes" and now the system is on the verge of collapse.

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- Making Programs like Water: Free and Transparent
[6071 hits, 0 votes, Average Rating 0] [Added: 15th Jun 2001]
New York times; Katie Hafner; June 13, 2001. An interview with Tim O'Reilly, publisher of many of the open source community's finest (only?) technical manuals; now what appears to be a publishing empire. Rate this:

- Can You Violate Copyright Law With a Magic Marker?
[5949 hits, 1 votes, Average Rating 3.00] [Added: 4th Jun 2002]
Slate.com; Brendan I. Koerner; June 3, 2002. Part of their Explainer series of Q&As:

Those who spread the Magic Marker method via Internet news groups or articles are on shakier legal ground, however. Section 1201 also includes a broadly worded "trafficking provision" that forbids the dissemination of copyright-shirking methods. Writers who describe the method could be prosecuted if their work is judged to have no raison d'�tre other than to aid budding pirates. Slate and other media outlets are in the clear, but the geeks who first shared the felt-tip techniques on alt.music news groups could be in hot water.
Bonus Explainer: Another player in the Key2Audio drama who could feel the DMCA's wrath is the smart-ass who recently tried to sell a Sharpie marker on eBay. Describing the marker, he wrote, "For the purpose of scribbling on Sony CDs." That could be construed as trafficking a circumvention device, another no-no according to Section 1201.

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- Mr. and Mrs. Geek Go To Washington
[5913 hits, 17 votes, Average Rating 0.29] [Added: 19th Apr 2002]
Wired.com; Paul Boutin; April 19, 2002. The formation of GeekPAC and the American Open Technology Consortium is discussed, with links provided. Reactions to DMCA, CDBTPA, etc. are cited as getting these groups started. Eric Raymond, "Doc" Searls and others. 'Searls said he thinks legislators simply don't understand enough about technology to realize the full impact of legislation proposed by lobbyists for entertainment, telecom and other industries. "I just want to bring sense to it -- that's what lobbyists do," he said. "They corner these people (in Congress) and get some time with them and say, 'You see this here? This is dumb. This is smart.'"' Rate this:

- Digital Rights Gain A Foothold
[5791 hits, 15 votes, Average Rating 0.60] [Added: 30th May 2001]
Wired: Brad King; May 30, 2001. Announcement and analysis of a partnership between Reciprocal and NetPD to greate a secure online content delivery system - a trusted server system? Rate this:

- Digital Entertainment Post-Napster: Movies
[5684 hits, 0 votes, Average Rating 0] [Added: 10th Nov 2002]
Technology Review; Thomas Bass; November 2002. A rundown on Divx; Rate this: