>Thread-Topic: VRA Intellectual Property Rights News: August 2008 >Thread-Index: AckM/dqsmDLVC9EwSu2R8SC9IIkA4A== >Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2008 09:14:38 -0400 >Reply-To: Visual Resources Association <VRA-L at LISTSERV.UARK.EDU> >Sender: Visual Resources Association <VRA-L at LISTSERV.UARK.EDU> >From: Jennifer Green <Jennifer.Green at MASSART.EDU> >Subject: VRA Intellectual Property Rights News: August 2008 >To: VRA-L at LISTSERV.UARK.EDU >List-Help: <http://listserv.uark.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=VRA-L>, > <mailto:LISTSERV at LISTSERV.UARK.EDU?body=INFO VRA-L> >List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:VRA-L-unsubscribe-request at LISTSERV.UARK.EDU> >List-Subscribe: <mailto:VRA-L-subscribe-request at LISTSERV.UARK.EDU> >List-Owner: <mailto:VRA-L-request at LISTSERV.UARK.EDU> >List-Archive: <http://listserv.uark.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=VRA-L> >X-ELNK-Received-Info: spv=0; >X-ELNK-AV: 0 >X-ELNK-Info: sbv=0; sbrc=.0; sbf=00; sbw=000; > >IPR-In the News >Compiled by Jen Green, Massachusetts College of Art + Design >-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >Copyright Expert Predicts More Regulation for Colleges on File Sharing >by Andrea Foster, Chronicle of Higher Education: Wired Campus, July 31, 2008 ><http://tinyurl.com/57mso4>http://tinyurl.com/57mso4 > >William Patry, Google's senior copyright lawyer >and a former lawyer for the Judiciary Committee >of the U.S. House of Representatives, has >dissected the provision in the mammoth higher >education bill regarding peer-to-peer file >sharing on college campuses. And what he writes >on his blog Wednesday is not encouraging for >colleges. The provision requires colleges to >develop plans to use technologies for stopping >illegal file sharing and "to the extent >practicable" to provide students with >subscription based services for downloading >movies and music. > >-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >A New Trial for Jammie Thomas? >by Brock Read, Chronicle of Higher Education: Wired Campus, August 4, 2008 ><http://tinyurl.com/67pqfv>http://tinyurl.com/67pqfv > >One of the Recording Industry Association of >America's most symbolically important legal >victories-its first and only win over a piracy >suspect in a jury trial-is on the line today in >a Minnesota courtroom, according to Wired's >Threat Level blog. > >-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >In a New Book, Lessig Says Society is Turning Artists Into Criminals >by Andrea Foster, Chronicle of Higher Education: Wired Campus, August 5, 2008 ><http://tinyurl.com/5asedw>http://tinyurl.com/5asedw > >Lawrence Lessig, the Stanford University law >professor whose writings have profoundly >influenced the way people think about >intellectual property in the digital age, >announced a year ago that he'd had enough of >advocating for the reform of copyright law and >would devote his energies to fighting corruption >and the influence of money on American politics. > >-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >A Ruling May Pave the Way for Broader Use of DVR >by Brian Stelter, New York Times, August 5, 2008 > >Recording V shows - and skipping the commercials >that come with them - may become more pervasive >in the wake of a new court ruling that blesses a >new networked form of digital video recorder. >The United States Court of Appeals for the >Second Circuit in New York said Monday that the >so-called network DVR, which records programs on >a faraway computer rather than on the device >itself, does not violate copyright law. > >See article below: "Letter to the Editor: >Redefining Digital Copyrights," by Gigi Sohn > >-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Share Scientific Articles ... and Network, Too >by Maria Jos? Vi?as, Chronicle of Higher >Education: Wired Campus, August 6, 2008 ><http://tinyurl.com/6ngkmn>http://tinyurl.com/6ngkmn > >A new Web site allows scientists to organize >research papers online and share them with their >colleagues, while doing some social networking >on the side. > >-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >How Copyright Got to its Current State (Patry blog ending) >by Andy Oram, O'Reilly, August 7, 2008 ><http://news.oreilly.com/2008/08/how-copyright-got-to-its-curre.html>http://news.oreilly.com/2008/08/how-copyright-got-to-its-curre.html > >William Patry, one of the most respected online >commentators on copyright, has shut down his >weblog. His parting observation is stated in the >personal, non-analytical style he liked to >cultivate online, but it will serve as a >declaration of policy (as well as a cry of >protest) among artistic and technically creative >people for some time to come: The Current State >of Copyright Law is too depressing. >See related article: Blog: P2P Net: William Patry Copyright Blog Returns! >-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Blog: Techdirt: How Copyright Is Holding Back the Creative Class >by Mike Masnick, August 8, 2008 ><http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20080808/0149051928.shtml>http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20080808/0149051928.shtml > >"While not enough people recognize it, the real >purpose of copyright law is to provide an >incentive for the creation of more content. The >government felt that there was a market failure, >where not enough "content" would be produced >without a limited monopoly, and thus, copyright >was born. However, that happened back in the day >when creating content wasn't easy." > >-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Blog: P2P Net: William Patry Copyright Blog Returns! >August 8, 2008 ><http://www.p2pnet.net/story/16663>http://www.p2pnet.net/story/16663 > >"Excellent news! William Patry is back online. >Or he will be, probably by tomorrow. Senior >copyright counsel at Google, he decided to take >his site offline because among other things, >"The current state of copyright law is too >depressing," he posted. > >-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Letter to the Editor: Redefining Digital Copyrights >by Gigi Sohn, New York Times, August 10, 2008 ><http://tinyurl.com/5hr72s>http://tinyurl.com/5hr72s > >To the Editor: "A Ruling May Pave the Way for Broader Use of DVR" (Business >Day, Aug. 5) misses the mark on the importance >of the Second Circuit's finding that >Cablevision's remote DVR service does not >violate copyright law. > >-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Blog: PBS/MediaShift: Should Copyright Law Change in the Digital Age? >by Mark Glaser, August 11, 2008 ><http://tinyurl.com/6jnx4z>http://tinyurl.com/6jnx4z > >This is the final part of my three-part email >roundtable discussion looking at the new Code of >Best Practices in Fair Use of Online Video >created at the behest of the Center for Social >Media at American University....In this final >installment, the discussion turns to legal >options, and whether the copyright law should be >updated for fair use, possibly creating safe >harbors for certain types of work that would be >shielded from lawsuits. > >-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Blog: PC World: Olympic Copyright Cops Snuff Rogue Web Vids >by Ian Paul, August 11, 2008 ><http://blogs.pcworld.com/staffblog/archives/007431.html>http://blogs.pcworld.com/staffblog/archives/007431.html > >Broadcaster NBC spent much of Friday furiously >trying to prevent computer users in the United >States from accessing streaming coverage of the >opening ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics. >Users were able to find streams and downloads on >foreign news feeds, YouTube and other sites like >Justin.tv. > >-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >The Permission Problem >by James Surowiecki, New Yorker, August 11, 2008 ><http://tinyurl.com/6pfnto>http://tinyurl.com/6pfnto > >Surowiecki comments on the book "Gridlock >Economy" by Columbia Law Professor, Michael >Heller. > >"?Heller shows that having too much ownership >creates its own problems. If too many people own >individual parts of a valuable asset, it's easy >to end up with gridlock, since any one person >can simply veto the use of the asset." > >--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Microsoft Caught with its Copyright Pants Down >by Microsoft Subnet, Network World, August 12, 2008 ><http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/31002>http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/31002 > >When Microsoft makes a marketing gaffe it nearly >always snowballs into a big to-do. As reported >by Cnet's Digital Media blog, Microsoft has a >competition up on its MSN U.K. site in which >entrants search for other people's online >pictures (using Live Search) and submit the ones >they consider to be iconic of Britian (the >competition is named "Iconic Britain"). The >winners would receive a Nikon camera. However, >the winners would be the people searching for >the photos - not the actual photographers of the >pictures that get chosen. The photographers nary >get a mention, not even a picture credit, >according to Digital Media. > >-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Blog: OUT-LAW News: Government to Increase Online Copyright Penalty Tenfold >August 12, 2008 ><http://www.out-law.com/page-9341>http://www.out-law.com/page-9341 > >"The Government and the Intellectual Property >Office (UK-IPO) are consulting on the plans, >which would allow Magistrates' Courts in England >and Wales to issue summary fines of ?50,000 for >online copyright infringement." > >-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Blog: Wall Street Journal: Law Blog: Conditions >in Open Source Artistic Licenses Limit Their >Scope. Discuss. >by Dan Slater, August 13, 2008 ><http://tinyurl.com/6j7ht8>http://tinyurl.com/6j7ht8 > >"Listen up techies! Judge Hochberg, of the Court of Appeals for the Federal >Circuit, gave code-heads a lot to chew on today with his ruling in Jacobsen v. >Katzer." > >-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >New York Supreme Court Rejects EMI's Bid to Enjoin Expelled >by Anthony Falzone, The Center for Internet and >Society: Stanford Law, August 13, 2008 ><http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/node/5833>http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/node/5833 > >Two months ago, a Manhattan federal court >rejected Yoko Ono Lennon's attempt to enjoin the >further showing and distribution of Expelled: No >Intelligence allowed on the ground that film >used fifteen seconds of the John Lennon song >Imagine. > >See next article. > >-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Blog: Collectanea, Nice Writeup of Center for >Internet and Society's Fair Use Win in NY State >Court >by Georgia Harper, August 14, 2008 ><http://tinyurl.com/6yr8ue>http://tinyurl.com/6yr8ue > >"The Bridgeport decision -- the one that >famously proclaimed that there was no such thing >as a de minimus use of music recordings (ie, no >matter *how small* your use, it needs to be >licensed) got some comeuppance yesterday: New >York Supreme Court Rejects EMI's Bid to Enjoin >Expelled." > >-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Legal Milestone for Open Source >by Maggie Shiels, Technology Reporter, BBC News, August 14, 2008 ><http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7561943.stm>http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7561943.stm > >Advocates of open source software have hailed a >court ruling protecting its use even though it >is given away free. The US federal appeals court >move overturned a lower court decision involving >free software used in model trains that a >hobbyist put online. > >-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Open Source Wins Landmark Legal Validation >by JR Raphael, LinuxInsider, August 14, 2008 ><http://tinyurl.com/5hmv47>http://tinyurl.com/5hmv47 > >The validity of open source software licenses >won a major court victory when a federal judge >ruled this week that copyright law allows >programmers to control the modification of their >software even though it's free. The ruling makes >legal sense, said copyright attorney Ross >Dannenberg. > >-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Open Source Advocates Hail Appeals Court Ruling >by Jeremy Kirk & Elizabeth Montalbano, IDG News >Service/PC World, August 14, 2008 ><http://tinyurl.com/5g8clo>http://tinyurl.com/5g8clo > >Free software advocates are praising a federal >appeals ruling that allows greater protection >for open-source software against copyright >infringement. > >-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >John Steinbeck Heirs Feel Publisher's Wrath >by David Litterick, <http://telegraph.co.uk/>Telegraph.co.uk, August 15, 2008 ><http://tinyurl.com/6b66oy>http://tinyurl.com/6b66oy > >In a Manhattan court this week, Steinbeck's son >and granddaughter were stripped of the rights to >some of the author's most famous works, >including The Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice And Men, >Tortilla Flat, and his first published novel Cup >of Gold, after years of courtroom wrangling that >would make a dramatic novel of their own. > >-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Some Media Companies Choose to Profit From Pirated YouTube Clips >by Brian Stelter, New York Times, August 15, 2008 ><http://tinyurl.com/6hylre>http://tinyurl.com/6hylre > >After years of regarding pirated video on >YouTube as a threat, some major media companies >are having a change of heart, treating it >instead as an advertising opportunity. > >-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >New Magazine-Sharing Site may Violate Copyrights >by Jeremy Herron, AP, August 15, 2008 ><http://tinyurl.com/6257x2>http://tinyurl.com/6257x2 > >The magazine industry, already facing a decline >in newsstand sales and falling ad revenue, is >being besieged by a new foe: digital piracy. A >fledgling Web site called Mygazines.com >encourages people to copy and upload popular >magazines that are currently on newsstands. > >-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Olympic Committee Rethinks Copyright Infringement Claim on YouTube >by Stephanie Condon, CNET News, August 15, 2008 ><http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10018234-38.html?hhTest=1>http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10018234-38.html?hhTest=1 > >The International Olympic Committee has retracted a Digital Millennium >Copyright Act takedown request it sent to >YouTube over a Tibetan protest video. > >-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >McCain Sued for Copyright Infringement >by Short News, August 16, 2008 ><http://www.shortnews.com/start.cfm?id=72762>http://www.shortnews.com/start.cfm?id=72762 > >Jackson Browne is suing John McCain and the >Republican National Committee for copyright >infringement over the use of his song 'Running >on Empty' in a political advertisement. > >-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >TinEye Image Search Helps Ferret out Copyright Ripoffs >by Jacqui Cheng, ArsTechnica, August 19, 2008 ><http://tinyurl.com/6pt54h>http://tinyurl.com/6pt54h > >Another day, another new search engine makes the >rounds. This time, it's an image-based search >engine called TinEye, which has recently been >opened up to the public in beta form. TinEye >claims to do for images what Google does for >text, which is to find web pages containing a >specific image that you supply. > >-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >AP Settles Online Copyright Lawsuit with VeriSign >by Jeremy Herron, Forbes, August 19, 2008 ><http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2008/08/19/ap5337895.html>http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2008/08/19/ap5337895.html > >The Associated Press has settled a copyright >lawsuit against a company that aggregates and >redistributes news online. The AP had accused >Moreover Technologies Inc. and its parent >company, VeriSign Inc., of improperly using >copyright-protected headlines, stories and >photos. The terms of the settlement were not >disclosed. > >-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Secrecy Claims on Copyright Treaty >by Karen Dearne, Australian IT, August 19, 2008 ><http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,24202770-15306,00.html>http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,24202770-15306,00.html > >The Bush administration's plans for a copyright >treaty, dubbed "Hollywood's Christmas list" by >privacy advocates, may be disrupted as protests >over "secret negotiations" emerge in >participating nations, including Australia, >Canada and New Zealand. > >-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Professional Development >University of Maryland University College >Intellectual Property in Academia Workshop Series ><http://www.umuc.edu/cip/ipa>http://www.umuc.edu/cip/ipa > >The CIP is pleased to announce an *expanded* >online workshop series for the 2008-2009 year! >Please take a look at the list of experienced >and knowledgeable moderators assembled below. In >addition there will be guest chat sessions with >other noted scholars. > >This asynchronous online workshop series has >proven to be of interest to content managers, >librarians, distance educators, instructional >designers, faculty, curriculum specialists, and >other information professionals. > >-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Many thanks to all of our VRA-IPR members who >are monitoring multiple listservs to make this >IPR news posting possible. Please submit any >comments, questions, or suggestions to Jen Green >at ><mailto:jen.green at massart.edu>jen.green at massart.edu > > >Jen Green >Visual Resources Librarian >Morton R. Godine Library >Massachusetts College of Art and Design >621 Huntington Avenue >Boston, MA 02115 >617-879-7109 >jen.green at massart.edu >
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