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From EFF, Bloggers Speak Up in Apple Case: “Groups working to protect journalists’ press freedoms, the creator of a blog-search tool, weblog publishers, and more than a dozen individual online journalist/bloggers filed a friend-of-the-court brief (PDF) [April 11] in Apple v. Does — the case in which Apple Computer is seeking to unmask online journalists’ …
Supreme Court Standards for Peer-to-Peer and Beyond – “The upcoming ruling on copyright infringement in P-to-P networks will have important implications for future technology development.”
Piercing the peertopeer myths: An examination of the Canadian experience by Michael Geist, First Monday, volume 10, number 4 (April 2005): “Canada is in the midst of a contentious copyright reform with advocates for stronger copyright protection maintaining that the Internet has led to widespread infringement that has harmed the economic interests of Canadian artists. …
From the School of Information Management and Systems, UC Berkeley, the transcript of oral arguments, March 29, 2005 (55 pages, PDF), in MGM v. Grokster. [The Peer-to-Peer Weblog]
Major Electronic Databases to Pay Freelancers in $18M Copyright Dispute
From News.com, Supreme Court may redefine file swapping From AP, High Court Hears Arguments on File-Sharing Technology From SCOTUSBlog, Court conflicted over file-swapping From Technology Daily, Attorneys for the entertainment industry and file-sharing companies square off in a pivotal intellectual property case From the New York Times, Justices Seem Responsive to Arguments on File Sharing …
From the New York Times, A Supreme Court Showdown for File Sharing. Related references
Press release from Public Knowledge: “The U.S. Copyright Office should permit movie makers, recording artists, authors, scholars and others to make a “reasonable effort” to find copyright owners as a way of making “orphan works” more available…”Orphan works” are copyrighted materials for which the copyright owner cant be reasonably located. Artists who want to use …
“This Yahoo! Search service finds content across the Web that has a Creative Commons license. While most stuff you find on the web has a full copyright, this search helps you find content published by authors that want you to share or reuse it, under certain conditions.” Additional details available from Internetnews.com
From the Chronicle of Higher Education, this commentary, available free: Hollywood Profits v. Technological Progress: “Commenting on a case that pits entertainment companies against peer-to-peer program developers, which is scheduled for argument in the Supreme Court next week, Doron Ben-Atar, a professor of history at Fordham University, writes that it is impossible to contain the …
From the Consumer Federation of America (CFA), the following documents: New Report Presents First Analysis of Critical Role of Peer-to-Peer in Technological Innovation, Economic Growth and Consumer Benefits Statement of Mark Cooper on the release of Time for the Recording Industry to Face the Music The full report, 79 pages, PDF: Time for the Recording …
Press release today: “About 36 million Americansor 27% of internet userssay they download either music or video files and about half of them have found ways outside of traditional peer-to-peer networks or paid online services to gather and swap their files, according to the most recent survey of the Pew Internet & American Life Project.” …
