Many good items here, especially the first two. n.b. Jon Band has spoken twice at MCN conferences; well worth following the links and reading his article.
------------- Original Message ---------------- > > ============== > (C)ollectanea Blog. Collected perspectives on copyright. > http://chaucer.umuc.edu/blogcip/collectanea/ > Center for Intellectual Property, UMUC > > -------------------------- > Blog: Speaking of fair use... did you hear about the Harry Potter fair > use case?. By Georgia Harper, Collectanea. December 7, 2007. > http://tinyurl.com/24azsf > > Not too much news yet, but Stanford's Fair Use Project has signed on as > co-counsel in a case that pits fan site collected information, in > published form, against the copyright owners of the Harry Potter series: > Fair Use Project to Represent RDR Books in Harry Potter Lexicon Dispute. > This is going to be a very interesting case. It will either join the > cases Jon Band grouped together as broadening the scope of fair use for > creative and transformative works, about which I blogged earlier this > week, or it will throw the progression a curve. > > -------------------------- > Blog: Jon Band publishes Educational Fair Use Today. By Georgia Harper, > Collectanea. December 5, 2007. > http://tinyurl.com/2ytav4 > > Jon Band has summarized three recent fair use case holdings in an > article entitled, Educational Fair Use Today, published by the > Association of Research Libraries. He notes that the cases all found > fair uses in commercial contexts (artwork, a search engine case > involving images, and the use of small copies of posters in a coffee > table book) and so strengthen fair use, particularly when fair use is > employed in transformative circumstances. Most importantly, he believes > that transformative is taking on a new meaning beyond the idea of > changing the nature of the work, like a parody changes the underlying > work or scholarly criticism uses another work. > > -------------------------- > Copyright Claim Erases Parody Video From YouTube. By Lewis Wallace, > Wired Blog Network. December 12, 2007. > http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2007/12/copyright-claim.html > > A hit YouTube video that parodied Silicon Valley's Web 2.0 gold rush has > been taken down, launching a freelance photographer and an amateur > choral group into an internet-fueled copyright dispute. > > -------------------------- > Press Release: Copyright Clearance Center Launches Copyright Labs. > BusinessWire.com. December 12, 2007. > http://tinyurl.com/2279xp > > Copyright Clearance Center (CCC), the world's largest provider of > copyright licensing solutions, today announced the launch of Copyright > Labs (www.copyrightlabs.com), a testing ground for new services, > applications and products. The site launched with three applications > already available. > > -------------------------- > Press Release: Copyright Protection Tool Launched. Daily Research News > Online. December 12, 2007. > http://www.mrweb.com/drno/news7704.htm > > In Canada, Destiny Media has launched a version of its Clipstream > software specifically for protecting clients' media content from theft, > copying or reuse when embeded in surveys. > > -------------------------- > Web Leaders Seek More Searchable Government. By Kim Hart, Washington > Post. December 11, 2007 > http://tinyurl.com/27bthb > > These days you can Google just about anything, from your favorite > celebrity's pet to your boss's middle name. But using the biggest search > engine to get information about the government often falls short. That's > what leaders from Google and Wikipedia plan to tell the Senate Committee > on Homeland Security and Government Affairs today, urging Congress to > require federal agencies to make their Web sites, records and databases > more searchable. > > -------------------------- > Porn producer sues YouTube knockoff. By Joseph Menn, Los Angeles Times. > December 11, 2007. > http://tinyurl.com/2yhn3v > > A major porn producer filed a lawsuit Monday against an X-rated knockoff > of YouTube, alleging that it profited from piracy by allowing its users > to post videos that include copyrighted material. > > -------------------------- > EU Online Copyright Bill Coming; Publishers Debate DRMs. By William New, > Intellectual Property Watch. December 9, 2007. > http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/index.php?p=861 > > European publishers and copyright holders have a friend in European > Information Society Commissioner Viviane Reding, which she reinforced > last week in describing efforts to push through a new bill on digital > publishing copyrights. At the same event, publishers and cutting-edge US > technology company SecondLife debated IP issues such as the problems of > digital rights management for protecting copyrights. > > -------------------------- > Charity Forced to Pay Copyright Fee So Kids Can Sing Carols. > TorrentFreak.com. December 9, 2007. > http://tinyurl.com/345ptj > > Christmas is known world-wide as a time for sharing, a time for giving. > But for one charity, instead of Santa arriving with gifts, the copyright > police turned up demanding money. Why? Because the charity allows > children to sing carols on the premises and their kitchen radio is a > little loud. > > -------------------------- > The Copyright Gift Basket: What's In It For You? By Janko Roettgers, > NewTeeVee.com. December 8, 2007. > http://tinyurl.com/2ygzmz > > Lawmakers from both parties just introduced an intellectual property > bill that reads like it's straight off the wish list of the entire > entertainment industry. Also advancing in Congress is a controversial > bill that aims to strengthen copyright enforcement at universities. And > finally, there's been a few gifts from the courts this week, as well. > Google won against dirty picture publisher Perfect10, and the same > company also suffered a defeat against Visa and other billing service > providers. So what does all of this mean for you? > > -------------------------- > Blog: Just An Online Minute... DOJ's Flawed Argument On Copyright. By > Wendy Davis, MediaPost, December 7, 2007. > http://blogs.mediapost.com/online_minute/?p=1622 > > The Bush Administration has weighed in on the side of the record > companies in their copyright infringement lawsuit against Jammie Thomas, > a single mother recently found liable for uploading 24 tracks to Kazaa. > In papers filed this week, the Department of Justice urged the judge to > uphold the jury's award of $220,000, or $9,250 per track. Thomas argues > that figure is so disproportionate to the retail value of each track - > 99 cents on iTunes - that the award is unconstitutionally excessive. > > -------------------------- > House Bill Would Create Govt. Copyright Czar. By Chloe Albanesius, PC > Magazine. December 6, 2007. > http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2704,2229544,00.asp > > If members of the House Judiciary Committee have their way, there will > be far fewer vendors hawking illegal copies of your favorite holiday > blockbusters in Times Square this time next year. > > -------------------------- > Nielsen To Offer Copyright Protection System For The Web. By Antone > Gonsalves, InformationWeek. December 5, 2007. > http://tinyurl.com/yp76eo > > Nielsen, best-known for its rankings of TV programming, said Wednesday > it is developing a system that would police Web sites for copyrighted > material, and notify site owners and content providers when video has > been posted without authorization. Nielsen is developing the system with > Digimarc, a provider of digital watermarking technology. The service, > which the companies plan to start rolling out in the second quarter of > next year, would tap into technology Nielson currently uses in the > services it sells to advertisers and TV networks. > > -------------------------- > Professor uses Youtube, Facebook in copyright fight. By Rafael Ruffolo, > ComputerWorld. December 5, 2007. > http://tinyurl.com/24clrj > > In an effort to combat the Canadian government's impending copyright > reform bill -- legislation which some say could affect privacy and > property rights for Canadian consumers and businesses -- one industry > activist is taking his fight to the digital streets. > > -------------------------- > File-Sharing Operator's Lawsuit Against Record Labels Dismissed. By Alex > Veiga, The Associated Press on Law.com. December 4, 2007. > http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1196762667705 > > A federal judge on Dec. 3 threw out an antitrust lawsuit that the > operator of the LimeWire online file-sharing service filed against a > coalition of major record labels. U.S. District Judge Gerard E. Lynch in > New York ruled that Lime Group LLC failed to make its case that it has > been harmed by the recording companies' business practices, and he > granted the companies' motion to dismiss the claims. > > -------------------------- > Oregon Challenges RIAA's Tactics in Music Piracy Claim. By Jaikumar > Vijayan, Computerworld/PCWorld.com. December 1, 2007. > http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,140173-c,copyright/article.html > > Oregon is fast becoming Ground Zero in the contentious battle between > the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and the tens of > thousands of consumers it accuses of illegal music sharing. The state > Attorney General's office this week filed an appeal in U.S. District > Court in Oregon calling for an immediate investigation of the evidence > presented by the RIAA when it subpoenaed the identities of 17 students > at the University of Oregon who allegedly infringed music copyrights. > > -------------------------- Amalyah Keshet Head of Image Resources & Copyright Management The Israel Museum, Jerusalem akeshet at imj.org.il Chair, MCN IP SIG www.mcn.edu Blog www.musematic.net Please consider the environment before printing this email
