Slaw » Copyright LawA Canadian cooperative weblog on all things legal.Wordscrape-abbulous- July 31, 2008 I was off for a couple of weeks and am quite proud to say that I did not access my email for 10 days, which is up there with my personal bests. I did have 266 messages in my inbox when I returned but it was worth it. I still find it nice ...http://www.slaw.ca/2008/07/31/wordscrape-abbulous/ Copyright Conference at Queens- July 30, 2008 If you&8217;re planning to be near Kingston Ontario come August 7, 8 and 9, you might want to check out &8220;copyright&8217;s counterparts,&8221; an academic workshop on the connection between copyright and creativity. From the &8220;about&8221; page: In some forms and circumstances, copyright, the main reference point for the workshop, can encourage creativity, promote and regulate the ...http://www.slaw.ca/2008/07/30/copyright-conference-at-queens/ Fair Use, Fair Dealing, and Copyright Infringement- July 21, 2008 Ars Technica is reporting that during the course of the &8220;tot dancing to a Prince song&8221; trial, in which the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the tot&8217;s mum are suing Universal for giving her &8220;a bad-faith DMCA takedown,&8221; Universal&8217;s lawyer stated that all fair use must constitute infringement, and that fair use is an affirmative defence. ...http://www.slaw.ca/2008/07/21/fair-use-fair-dealing-and-copyright-infringement/ New U.S. Copyright Slider- July 21, 2008 American Library Association&8217;s Office for Information Technology Policy has put together a funky Digital Copyright Slider that helps you determine what kind of copyright is held on works within certain time periods, and whether permission is needed to copy those works or if they are in the public domain. It was designed by Michael Brewer ...http://www.slaw.ca/2008/07/21/new-us-copyright-slider/ Viacom Vying for Your YouTube User Records- July 7, 2008 A ruling released July 1st in the copyright infringement case Viacom v. Google has created a stir in the online world. Judge Louis L. Stanton in the U.S. federal New York Southern District Court ordered Google to produce to Viacom: all data from the Logging database concerning each time a YouTube video has been viewed on ...http://www.slaw.ca/2008/07/07/viacom-vying-for-your-youtube-user-records/ |