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Sarah Palin's Lawyers Take On the Internet
Sara Palin's lawyers have three words for the Internet: "cease and desist". Alternately, those three words could be "leave Sarah alone!" The law firm of Clapp Peterson Van Flein Tiemessen Thorsness (am I leaving anyone out?) sent out a press release that basically bit the had... Fixing DMCA takedown problems through shaming, legal reform
Big media have been using DMCA to force YouTube to take down protected speech, affecting individual's protected speech and the public's right to know. McCain has objected to this practice, which has affected both campaigns, and here Arstechnica comments on open letters just... Double Agency: "Monetizing" Illegal Content
It's interesting that Youtube seems to be playing for both teams here: on one hand, doing nothing to discourage the uploading of copyrighted material by non-copyright-holders, and, on the other hand, hosting tools...
created by Jordan Yerman | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
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4000 Anti-Scientology videos pulled from YouTube
" Over a period of twelve hours, between this Thursday night and Friday morning, American Rights Counsel LLC sent out over 4000 DMCA takedown notices to YouTube, all making copyright infringement claims against...
created by Terri Potratz | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
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281 views | 10 recommendations | 6 comments
Copyright Owners 'Must Consider Fair Use' Before Suing
In a surprising legal move that could have broad consequences for companies suing customers willy-nilly for copyright infringement, a judge in San Jose handed down a victory to fair-use advocates today.He refused... Jeff Jarvis to the AP: "FU"
Wow, a serious fight is underway between the AP and the blogosphere. Jeff Jarvis posted this on his blog yesterday:"I talked to a reporter this week about the embattled Associated Press and said three times... New York Mob suspects nabbed
OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorThe Colombo Family took a "Hit" when Tommy Shots, was arrested by authourites and seven other mobsters.Mobsters, now there is a word you don't hear anymore, much less...
created by Barry Artiste | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
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Islamabad: Liveblogging the takedown of Jihadi "burqa man"
Xeni had this to say on BoingBoing today:" Security forces in Islamabad, Pakistan arrested the leader of a radical mosque after a bloody standoff -- the man was trying to escape the siege disguised in a burqa,...Unfairly Targeted by Viacom? Fight Back!
I found this page via the good people at boingboing.net. The show so far: The RIAA has sent out spam take-down notices to youtube contributors based on the titles of their posts. This was shady work by Viacom's legal department, and should not go unchallenged. "As an RIAA...Fox issues threats to sites linking to YouTube videos
Cory Doctorow has a very interesting column today about the lengths media corporations will go to enforce its control over the web. In this case, Fox is issuing legal threats to sites that link to material that Fox claims has been stolen from it.An analogy would be if police...
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