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ALA Washington Office Pilots Copyright Hotline: “The American Library Association Washington Office’s Office for Information and Technology Policy (ALAWASH) is piloting an electronic bulletin board where librarians can post questions and answers to their copyright questions under the watchful eye of copyright experts.”
From the Congressional Budget Office, Copyright Issues in Digital Media, August 2004. “This Congressional Budget Office (CBO) paper reviews current copyright law in the United States and considers the unique aspects of digital technology’s challenge to that law. It also examines the prospects for a market-based resolution to copyright disputes over digital content and explores …
An Examination of S. 2560, The Inducing Infringement of Copyrights Act of 2004, Senate Judiciary Committee Full Committee, July 22, 2004 Links to Testimony and Member Statements
The text of the Induce Act (S. 2560), and the Statement of Senator Orrin G. Hatch, are via Susan Crawford Blog. Commentary from Declan McCullagh.
From the EFF press release: “A broad group of organizations and companies representing diverse sectors of the U.S. economy has come together to form a new organization, the Personal Technology Freedom Coalition. With members ranging from the telephone industry to high-tech firms, libraries, universities and the public-interest sector, the Coalition is committed to repairing recent …
File Sharing: Selected Universities Report Taking Action to Reduce Copyright Infringement. GAO-04-503, May 28. Highlights. “All of the officials interviewed indicated that their colleges or universities routinely monitor their networks, and most of them indicated that the institutions also actively monitor their networks specifically for the use of these file-sharing applications. When infringing use is …
The Economics of Open Source Hijacking and Declining Quality of Digital Information Resources: A Case for Copyleft, by Andrea Ciffolilli, Department of Economics, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy. “A copyleft, rather then a simple attribution licence…does not forbid commercial exploitation, but only shields the coherence of the collectively constructed public good and, for instance …
Hearing today: H.R. 107, The Digital Media Consumers’ Rights Act of 2003, Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade, and Consumer Protection. Witness List & Prepared Testimony From testimony by Prof. Lawrence Lessig, Stanford Law School: “A poorly crafted copyright law – a law that either creates too much uncertainty, or a law that extends its reach beyond …
Information Cannot Be Owned by Jean Nicholas Druey, April 2004: “Apart from technology, the information age has up to now badly served its idol. It has failed sufficiently to recognize specific features of information. This is shown with respect to the question whether legal rights on information can take the form of ownership. The answer …
New Lawsuit Spotlights Thousands of Copyright “Orphans” That Should Be in the Public Domain: “The plaintiffs in Kahle v. Ashcroft are the Internet Archive and Prelinger Associates, both Web libraries that make thousands of works freely available online, including audio, books, films, and software. In general, these works must be in the public domain, unburdened …
The New Surveillance, by Sonia Katyal, Case Western Law Review, Vol. 54, No. 297, 2004. “The goals of this Article are threefold: first, to trace the origins of piracy surveillance through recent jurisprudence involving copyright; second, to provide an analysis of the tradeoffs between public and private enforcement of copyright; and third, to suggest some …
A new data memo from the Pew Internet Project notes a decline in the rate of music downloading from its heyday in 2003, but millions of Americans continue to obtain music using filing sharing applications. Many users have been deterred from downloading however by the highly publicized anti-piracy campaign waged by the music industry.
