Archive for November, 2006
Monday, November 27th, 2006
While I'm stoked about the offline media coverage (AP and NPR, most notably), here's a choice selection of links to other bloggers' comments.
Fred von Lohmann, from within the EFF Deeplinks, writes in the most-linked blog entry:
Unfortunately, just as we predicted, all the proposed exemptions that would benefit consumers were denied ...
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Monday, November 27th, 2006
Quoth NPR.org (where you can listen to the audio):
All Things Considered, November 27, 2006 · The Digital Millennium Copyright Act made it illegal to reproduce copyrighted material from DVDs -- even short excerpts. That proved to be an enormous obstacle to the professors of college film-studies programs, who wanted to ...
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Wednesday, November 22nd, 2006
The Copyright Office today granted 6 exemptions to 17 USC § 1201(a)(1), effective for the next three years, that allow end-users to circumvent technological protection measures in order to make noninfringing uses of certain works.
Two of the exemptions are particularly noteworthy. They are:
1. Audiovisual works included in the educational library ...
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Wednesday, November 22nd, 2006
In an effort to create ever-greater profits, the NFL is now running 8 live games per season on the NFL Network.
Just 40 million households will be able to see the Broncos-Chiefs game on Thanksgiving. As an NFL fan generally and a diasporic Broncos fan in particular, I find this arrangement ...
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Wednesday, November 22nd, 2006
In a lawsuit filed Tuesday, several groups accused elections officials in Sarasota County, Florida, of negligence resulting in thousands of undervotes for a hotly contested US House seat. The suit asks for a re-vote.
In the race between Republican Vern Buchanan and Democrat Christine Jennings, elections officials had certified Buchanan as ...
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Saturday, November 18th, 2006
In yet another sad, sad use of 17 USC § 1201, the Motion Picture Association of America is suing to stop you from ripping your DVDs to your iPod.
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Saturday, November 18th, 2006
No time to write a full post; I'm currently at the National Communication Association conference. But while I lunch, here's the first of two minilinks:
Universal sues MySpace for copyright infringement. (Link from Searchblog, via BoingBoing.)
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Tuesday, November 14th, 2006
RIAA President Cary Sherman posted a perspective on CNet today entitled "The farce behind 'Digital Freedom'", a savage assault on the Digital Freedom Campaign that has earned an immediate response from Consumer Electronics Association President Gary Shapiro.
Sherman misquotes Shapiro to set up a straw opponent. He also attacks the Digital ...
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Friday, November 10th, 2006
According to video game fan blog Kotaku, the Entertainment Software Association threatened that it would take legal action against the fan site unless Kotaku takes down all links and images referring to a t-shirt allegedly infringing upon the ESA's trademarked ratings system. Kotaku isn't making or selling the t-shirt, which ...
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Tuesday, November 7th, 2006
I doubt it can stop it cold, but it could have some effect.
Google for "virginia vote suppression" and you get a fistful of good evidence of bad behavior. My favorite is this answering machine message telling a voter they will be criminally prosecuted for trying to vote in VA because ...
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