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House Passes CARP Reform Bill

On Wednesday the U.S. House passed H.R. 1417, legislation to replace the Copyright Arbitration Royalty Panel system with a more affordable and efficient system…

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Dueling Troll Makers Bury The Hatchet

Dam Things From Denmark and Russ have settled a long-running copyright dispute over restored copyrights in troll dolls.  Here's the press release via Yahoo!…

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Half Dead CARP

The U.S. House passed H.R. 1417, the CARP Reform bill, yesterday.  406 to zero.  There is no companion bill in the Senate, but no doubt there soon will be.  The…

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Clinic Files Comments with the USSC

The Clinic filed comments on behalf of the NACDL and the EFF on the CAN-SPAM Act on March 1.  The comments argue that the Commission’s proposed guidelines and s…

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control v compensation

近頃、米国のデジタル著作権の分野で、相次いで、著作権の強制許諾制度的な提案がなされています。Neil Netanelの論文、Terry Fisherのもうすぐ出版予定の本「Promise To Keep」の第6章、Raymond Ku、Jessica Litmanのドラフトなど、皆それぞれ提唱する制度の範囲や条件が多少…

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Editing Evil?

The Treasury Department sent out several letters interpreting the editing of Persian poetry as "aiding and abetting the enemy." Yes, really. Apparentl…

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Hacking Democracy?

March 2nd is Super Tuesday in ten states including California... and it's also a major test of electronic voting technology. Diebold Election Systems, the c…

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Return of the King?

Nat Hentoff surmises the situation in Guantanamo Bay and calls it "monarchical." From Ghost in the Machine.…

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control v compensation

Is it enough to give full compensation to the artists and copyright holders? Or, is it important to give a power to control how their works are used? This is on…