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A good article in the New York Times on international copyright enforcement (or not)

Aimster/Madster in the sights of the RIAA. The New York State legislature sees its own variant of the California 7-year-law

The Shifted Librarian updates us on the eBay bans on the sale of CD-Rs.

After today’s ESD.10 lecture, Chris Hardin told me that Siva Vyadhyanathan and Jonathan Zittrain will be giving a talk at the concluding forum of the semester, copyright and culture, in the MIT Communication Forum’s series at the MIT Media Lab’s Bartos Theatre on November 6 from 5-7 PM. Don’t miss it!

And, the Microsoft decision is in - ugh. See LawMeme, the LawMeme instant analysis, and Slashdot As The Register points out, it’s up to the European Commission, now.

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• An interesting look at the extent to which Chinese artists have to go to protect their intellectual property in a country where copyright is honored more in the breach than in its enforcement.

• Madster (nee Aimster) is profiled in a Rolling Stone article [from LawMeme

  The "Madster" (Aimee Deep) has a weblog that you may want to see with a chronology of the fight..

• Billboard comments negatively on the prospects for the Aritistic Freedom Act, which appears to be a NY variant on the 7-year-legislation that recently died in CA.

• A first person account of what lengths eBay and the RIAA will go to protect their distribution model.

• You never know what you’ll find when you click on a link. The link for the upcoming Viadhyanathan boook led to a host of interesting content, including this NYTimes article on Viadhyanathan finding an unpublished Mark Twain manuscript on copyright.