Category: Fair Use & Copyright
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Pirate Bay Buyer Says Deal Nearly Done | Threat Level | Wired.com
“The Pirate Bay is back. We are looking forward to a successful completion of the acquisition of The Pirate Bay, one of the world’s top 100 sites,” Pandeya said in a statement. The announcement was published by AktieTorget, a Swedish-based exchange listing Global Gaming Factory’s stock, which has seesawed since the proposal was announced last…
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I Can Has Cheezburger Provides Ideas for Journalists
Image via Wikipedia Mark Brigg’s blog brought this idea out. Filtering (POV) is going to be a paid and highly paid at that, feature of good news. There is still value for news reporters and organizations to be “source leaders.” I am one who believes that there is an important role for the professional news…
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RIAA Threatens Berkman Center for Internet and Society’s Founder
“The idea that a court is being asked by them to order educational material to be removed from the Berkman Center for Internet and Society website seems a questionable intrusion both on my liberty and the public interest,” said Nesson in a telephone interview. “I certainly don’t agree that I am violating any law.” via…
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International Legal Question: Can You Serve Someone via Twitter or Facebook
Image by biverson via Flickr The Swedish Wire reports that “The Pirate Bay-founders hunted on Twitter.” Legal officials from the Netherlands acting at the behest of Bescherming Rechten Entertainment Industrie Nederland (BREIN), the Dutch entertainment industry cognate of the USA’s RIAA, is attempting to close down The Pirate Bay website in the Netherlands. When the…
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RIAA and Digital Millenium Copyright Act blues
From David Byrne on the RIAA and its warning to him. And from slashdot comes this story about challenges to the RIAA and its ex parte suits. RIAA bye for now
Barbara K Iverson 