eardrumbuzz: IPintellectual property law(Untitled)- November 19, 2004 Why the Intellectual Property Protection Act is lame and what you can do about it. Stop the Intellectual Property Protection Act (which would outlaw fast-forwarding through commercials on DVDs, for example) that is being railroaded through Congress. Wendy Seltzer of the Electronic Frontier Foundation provides some information about what you can do to help stop this bill from passing into law: The first problem with the omnibus intellectual property bill barreling through Congress&8217; lame...http://www.eardrumbuzz.com/blog/categories/ip/2004/11/19.html#a1100 (Untitled)- November 18, 2004 EFF Fights for a Better WIPO. For years, progressive groups like the Consumer Project on Technology (CPTech) have struggled to convince the UN's World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) to rethink its "IP Uber Alles" philosophy -- that is, the pursuit of maximal intellectual property protection for its own sake, regardless of the human, cultural, or economic impact. The stakes are high. As James Boyle points in his Manifesto on WIPO and the Future of Intellectual Property, WIPO...http://www.eardrumbuzz.com/blog/categories/ip/2004/11/17.html#a1096 (Untitled)- November 11, 2004 Judge tells Virgin to leave Apple alone and come up with their own DRM. So VirginMega just lost their suit in a French court to get the rights to use Apple&8217;s FairPlay DRM technology. They claimed that given the iPod&8217;s dominance of the digital audio market, Apple&8217;s refusal to let other people sell DRM&8217;d downloads for the iPod constituted an anti-trust violation (which straight up seemed really silly), and that they should have access to Apple&8217;s FairPlay code.The...http://www.eardrumbuzz.com/blog/categories/ip/2004/11/11.html#a1085 (Untitled)- November 5, 2004 Movie Studios to Sue File Sharers. Hollywood Joins Music Industry in Misguided Crusade Today the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) announced that the major Hollywood motion picture studios would be filing hundreds of lawsuits against individuals using peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing software to access movies online. In so doing, Hollywood follows in the footsteps of the music industry, which has filed more than 6,000 lawsuits against file sharers since September 2003. In connection..http://www.eardrumbuzz.com/blog/categories/ip/2004/11/05.html#a1069 (Untitled)- November 5, 2004 Movie Industry Preparing Suits on File Sharing. Hollywood's major movie studios said that they would begin filing lawsuits against people who make copyrighted films available for downloading over the Internet. NYT Technologyhttp://www.eardrumbuzz.com/blog/categories/ip/2004/11/05.html#a1068 |