[MCN-L] IP SIG: VRA IP News
FYI - VRA's IP News has a new editor and new URL (see below) Diane Sender: Visual Resources Association VRA-L at LISTSERV.UARK.EDU From: Jen Green greenjennif at GMAIL.COM Subject: VRA Intellectual Property Rights News: June 2010 (plus an announcement) To: VRA-L at LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Hello all, With this month's posting comes an announcement The VRA IPR Committee is pleased to announce that (starting August 1st) fellow IPR committee member, Terry Kerby, will be stepping into the role of compiling and posting the VRA Intellectual Property Rights News. I've enjoyed serving the VRA through the IPR posting over the past few years, but it is time to pass this privilege on to another member's capable hands. I hope that Terry benefits from this task as much as I did! Through this transition we've had to migrate the IPR News blog to a slightly different address in order to provide access to a new author. The link below will direct you to the blog's new location: http://vraiprnews.wordpress.com/http://vraiprnews.wordpress.com/ Thank you for your encouragement and positive feedback since the launch of the VRA Intellectual Property Right News--and thank you, Terry, for volunteering your time in this way! Best wishes and happy holiday! Jen Green -- Jen Green Art Librarian, Lamson Library and Learning Commons Adjunct Faculty, Art Department Plymouth State University MSC 47, 17 High Street Plymouth, NH 03264 603-535-2226 http://library.plymouth.edu/http://library.plymouth.edu/ -- Diane M. Zorich 113 Gallup Road Princeton, NJ 08542 USA Voice: 609-252-1606 Email: dzorich at mindspring.com or dianezorich at comcast.net
[MCN-L] IP SIG: In The News - Google Book Search, et al.
-Original Message- == RECENT ITEM FROM THE CIP COLLECTANEA BLOG: Google Book Search and orphan works. By Georgia Harper, Collectanea, November 1, 2008. http://chaucer.umuc.edu/blogcip/collectanea/ So, what's so new? Everything. This isn't the Congressional approach to problem solving (shove the parties into a room and lock the door until they have reached an agreement -- and may the strongest interest obliterate the weaker and we'll call it a compromise in the public interest). --- Harvard Professor Offers New Challenge to RIAA Antipiracy Campaign By Jaikumar Vijayan, ComputerWorld, October 30, 2008 http://tinyurl.com/5ssk75 Nesson claims Digital Theft Act, on which RIAA lawsuits are based, is unconstitutional. - Harvard Refuses To Open In-Copyright Books to Google By Antone Gonsalves, InformationWeek, October 31, 2008 http://tinyurl.com/64fc7h Harvard has refused to join Google's in-copyright book-scanning project despite a recent agreement to settle copyright-infringement lawsuits from book publishers and authors, saying the deal has too many potential limitations on electronic access to works. - MTV, MySpace: The New Ad Men of Piracy By Brian Kraemer, ChannelWeb, November 3, 2008 http://www.crn.com/software/21295 MTV Networks and MySpace have contracted third-party technology company Auditude to track pirated videos that are uploaded to the social networking site and provide the option to serve ads to the content or have them pulled. - Google's New Monopoly? By James Gibson, The Washington Post, November 3, 2008 http://tinyurl.com/5642dv How the Company Could Gain by Paying Millions in Copyright Fees. Games Firms 'Catching' Non-Gamers By BBC America, BBC, October 30, 2008 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7697898.stm Games firms are accusing innocent people of file-sharing as they crack down on pirates, a which? computing investigation has claimed. - Who's Afraid of the Big Bad (c) ? By Doug Johnson, School Library Journal, October 1, 2008 http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA6600687.html; Few subjects spark more disagreement and confusion than copyright. As an information professional, I'm often not certain that I have a firm grasp of it. And I'm not alone.- Looking at Students and P2P - With Data By Andy Guess, Inside Higher Ed, insidehighered.com, October 31, 2008 http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2008/10/31/p2p Between the deluge of litigation from the entertainment industry and defiant opposition from college students, is there a way out of the deadlock surrounding the debate on peer-to-peer file sharing? - Fair Use and the Election By Leslie Harris, ABC News, October 31, 2008 http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=6156237page=1 News Organizations Have Gone After Both Campaigns for Using Snippets of Broadcasts Without Their Permission. - Tony Clement New Copyright Minister By p2pnet News View, ptpnet.net, October 31, 2008 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/17435 Yesterday p2pnet said Jim Prentice was back as industry minister in Stephen Harper's old new government. - Participants Ready Agendas for New-Look WIPO Copyright Committee By William New, Intellectual Property Watch, October 31, 2008 http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/index.php?p=1297 World Intellectual Property Organization members gather in Geneva next week to take up old and new agenda items targeting international policy on copyright and related rights. - Copyright dispute among RIAV, FPT Telecom, and Nokia Vietnam: no settlement reached By Thanh Chung, VietNamNet Bridge, October 31, 2008 http://english.vietnamnet.vn/social/2008/10/811211/ No settlement has been reached in talks between the Recording Industry Association of Vietnam (RIAV) and FPT Telecom over allegations of copyright infringement of recorded music. - Nigeria: MCSN Can Sue Nu Metro Others over Copyrights Infringement By Innocent Anaba, Vanguard, November 1, 2008 http://allafrica.com/stories/200811010062.html A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, has held that the Musical Copyright Society of Nigeria (MCSN), has the locus standing to bring the suit against three South African firm, for importing into the country, musical recordings and reproducing same for distribution and sales, without its (Musical Copyright Society of Nigeria) permission. - A senior executive of Nokia in Southest Asia arrived in Ho Chi Minh City on Friday to meet Recording Industry Association of Vietnam (RIAV) for allegation of copy infringements. By Thanh Chung, VietNamNet Bridge, November 1, 2008 http://english.vietnamnet.vn/social/2008/11/811388/ Nokia Vietnam has been alleged allowing its customers to download 1,000 copyrighted songs from a 10,000 song database through a FPT website. - Musicians Descend on Bosomprah and Say He Must Be Sacked From Office By Regina Ani-Awukubea, The
[MCN-L] IP SIG: In The News
Good stuff from: (C)ollectanea Blog. Collected perspectives on copyright. http://chaucer.umuc.edu/blogcip/collectanea/ Center for Intellectual Property, UMUC Book review: New Book Explores Social Costs of Digital Rights Management by Susan Lang, LinuxElectrons, September 09 2007 http://tinyurl.com/28yyv3 Ithaca, NY - Copyright law was conceived when only a few people had the ability to mass-produce intellectual property. Computers and the Internet, however, have opened a whole new can of worms, allowing almost anyone to copy almost anything and distribute it widely. Instead of relying on the enforcement of copyright laws, more and more industries are relying on such technologies as encryption to protect their content. - Press Release: SPARC letter to members on the PRISM anti-open access effort Date: September 6, 2007 To: SPARC Members From: Heather Joseph, SPARC Executive Director Re: PRISM anti-open access effort http://www.arl.org/sparc/advocacy/07-0907prism.html I'm writing to bring to your attention the recent launch of an anti-open access lobbying effort. The initiative, called PRISM - the Partnership for Research Integrity in Science and Medicine ( http://www.prismcoalition.org), was launched with development support from the Association of American Publishers and specifically targets efforts to expand public access to federally funded research results - including the National Institute of Health's Public Access Policy. - Blog: The rhetoric of fair use by Carlos Ovalle, (c)ollectanea Blog, September 7, 2007 http://tinyurl.com/ynvbok Here's one of the subjects I've mentioned in a few places in action: the rhetoric of fair use. The technology trade group Computer Communications Industry Association (CCIA) recently filed a complaint with the FTC regarding the misleading and overreaching copyright warnings that appear during sports events, on DVDs and books, and other places. Blog: US court rules that free speech trumps copyright (sometimes) by Cory Doctorow, boing-boing, September 5, 2007 http://www.boingboing.net/2007/09/05/us-court-rules-that.html A major copyright victory -- the Tenth Circuit court has ruled in favor of Larry Lessig, et al, in Golan v. Gonzales, a case about the scope of fair use. The court has acknowledged that First Amendment freedoms must be considered when copyright law is made. - Japan: Artists and Right Holders to Build Search Site for Copyright Information By Keita Mochizuki, Tech-On!, Sep 04, 2007 http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/english/NEWS_EN/20070904/138725/ It was revealed in a press conference Aug. 31, 2007, that a group of artists and right holders organizations in Japan will construct a Web site that will enable searches of copyright information on literature, photos and music via the Internet, targeting January 2009. - The First Close Look at Colleges' Digital Pirates by BROCK READ, Chronicle of Higher Education, 7 September 2007 (subscription required) http://chronicle.com/weekly/v54/i02/02a00102.htm Ms. Elzy and Mr. Arbogast wanted financial support from the industry, and they got it. The Digital Citizen Project, as Illinois State calls it, has benefited from considerable entertainment-industry financing, including an influx ofseveral hundred thousand dollars that came shortly after the meeting. . Later, Illinois State secured promises that the information the university collects will not be used to prosecute students. ==
