Court Finds That Using Copyrighted Material as AI Training Data Is Not Fair Use
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/court-finds-copyrighted-material-training-data-fair-use
Now, the legal system is starting to show signs that the defense could be on thin ice. Last week, a US appeals court upheld a ruling that AI legal research company Ross Intelligence had broken copyright law by training its legal search engine on materials taken from Thomson Reuters’ Westlaw legal research platform and database.
Anthropic wins key US ruling on AI training in authors' copyright lawsuit
https://werd.io/anthropic-wins-key-us-ruling-on-ai-training-in-authors-copyright-lawsuit/
A federal court agreed that using copyrighted works to train AI is fair use - but that pirating them to do so infringes creator rights.
Copyright and the Demo Scene | datagubbe.se
https://www.datagubbe.se/scenecop/
This paradoxical duality of writing commercial software and cracking games defines the complex and often incomprehensible attitude towards copyright or intellectual property - for lack of a better word - on the demo scene.
Outlawed by Amazon DRM « Martin Bekkelund
http://www.bekkelund.net/2012/10/22/outlawed-by-amazon-drm/
Amazon wipes a woman's Kindle and shuts down her account. This is why I strip the DRM from every Kindle book I buy, and archive each away on my home server. And, also, why I rarely buy Kindle books.
Outlawed by Amazon DRM « Martin Bekkelund
http://www.bekkelund.net/2012/10/22/outlawed-by-amazon-drm
Amazon wipes a woman's Kindle and shuts down her account. This is why I strip the DRM from every Kindle book I buy, and archive each away on my home server. And, also, why I rarely buy Kindle books.
An Open Letter to Jay Leno About Stealing My Video and Then Getting It Removed From YouTube | Splitsider
http://splitsider.com/2012/05/an-open-letter-to-jay-leno-about-stealing-my-video-and-then-getting-it-removed-from-youtube/
First off, my intention is not to fight you on this. You have more cars than I have dollars, and so I know I don’t stand a chance legally, and on top of that, I don’t really understand how legal stuff works. But the truth is you kind of fucked up my shit and I need to talk to you about it.
An Open Letter to Jay Leno About Stealing My Video and Then Getting It Removed From YouTube | Splitsider
http://splitsider.com/2012/05/an-open-letter-to-jay-leno-about-stealing-my-video-and-then-getting-it-removed-from-youtube
First off, my intention is not to fight you on this. You have more cars than I have dollars, and so I know I don’t stand a chance legally, and on top of that, I don’t really understand how legal stuff works. But the truth is you kind of fucked up my shit and I need to talk to you about it.
RIAA claims Limewire owes it $72 trillion—that's "trillion" with a "T" | Music | Newswire | The A.V. Club
http://www.avclub.com/articles/riaa-claims-limewire-owes-it-72-trillionthats-tril,75555/
According to documents recently filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, the RIAA was asking for damages of about $72 trillion dollars, a figure that the judge in the case said is "absurd." Judge Kimba Wood wrote in a recent decision that, "An award based on the RIAA calculations would amount to 'more money than the entire music industry has made since Edison's invention of the phonograph in 1877.'"
RIAA claims Limewire owes it $72 trillion—that's "trillion" with a "T" | Music | Newswire | The A.V. Club
http://www.avclub.com/articles/riaa-claims-limewire-owes-it-72-trillionthats-tril,75555
According to documents recently filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, the RIAA was asking for damages of about $72 trillion dollars, a figure that the judge in the case said is "absurd." Judge Kimba Wood wrote in a recent decision that, "An award based on the RIAA calculations would amount to 'more money than the entire music industry has made since Edison's invention of the phonograph in 1877.'"
Adam Yauch and Paul’s Boutique: How dumb court decisions have made it nearly impossible for artists to sample the way the Beastie Boys did - Slate Magazine
http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2012/05/adam_yauch_and_paul_s_boutique_how_dumb_court_decisions_have_made_it_nearly_impossible_for_artists_to_sample_the_way_the_beastie_boys_did.single.html
How dumb court decisions and bad laws have made it all but impossible for musicians to sample the way the Beastie Boys used to.
Eternal Copyright: a modest proposal – Telegraph Blogs
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/technology/adrianhon/100007156/infinite-copyright-a-modest-proposal/
Certainly we wouldn't want to listen to their other suggestions, which would see us broaden the definition of "fair use" and, horrifically, reduce copyright terms back to merely a lifetime or even less. Not only would such an act deprive our great-great-grandchildren of their birthright, but it would surely choke off creativity to the dark ages of the 18th and 19th centuries, a desperately lean time for art in which we had to make do with mere scribblers such as Wordsworth, Swift, Richardson, Defoe, Austen, Bronte, Hardy, Dickens, and Keats.
Eternal Copyright: a modest proposal – Telegraph Blogs
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/technology/adrianhon/100007156/infinite-copyright-a-modest-proposal
Certainly we wouldn't want to listen to their other suggestions, which would see us broaden the definition of "fair use" and, horrifically, reduce copyright terms back to merely a lifetime or even less. Not only would such an act deprive our great-great-grandchildren of their birthright, but it would surely choke off creativity to the dark ages of the 18th and 19th centuries, a desperately lean time for art in which we had to make do with mere scribblers such as Wordsworth, Swift, Richardson, Defoe, Austen, Bronte, Hardy, Dickens, and Keats.
No Copyright Intended - Waxy.org
http://waxy.org/2011/12/no_copyright_intended
Remix culture is the new Prohibition, with massive media companies as the lone voices calling for temperance. You can criminalize commonplace activities from law-abiding people, but eventually, something has to give.
Piracy and Copyright Challenges in 1841 Mirror Those of Today
http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/ln214/piracy_and_copyright_challenges_in_1841_mirror
Chaos feared after Unix time-zone database is nuked
http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2011/10/07/unix_time_zone_database_destroyed
Vimeo Sued By Capitol Records Over Lip Dubs - Secret Enemy Hideout
http://secretenemyhideout.com/post/286184926/vimeo-sued-by-capitol-records-over-lip-dubs
"Capitol, you’re a bunch of goof-balls. This lawsuit is the tactical equivalent to pooping on someone’s birthday cake."
Pez Suing Burlingame Museum of Pez Memorabilia
http://laughingsquid.com/pez-suing-burlingame-museum-of-pez-memorabilia
"Pez Candy Inc. is suing the Burlingame Museum of Pez Memorabilia over copyright infringement. The suit, filed last week, claims that the museum deceives the public into believing they are operating under the authority of Pez and asks that the museum’s 7 foot tall replica of Pez dispenser be destroyed. The lawsuit also takes issue with the museum’s sales of toy truck Pez dispensers which had been modified with Obama and McCain logos during last years elections. The museum has been opened since 1995 and is said to be the only place in the world were you can see every Pez dispenser ever made."
Does A Private Company Own Your Muni Arrival Times?: News: SFAppeal
http://sfappeal.com/news/2009/06/who-owns-sfmta-arrival-data.php
"When Steven Peterson created Routesy, an iPhone app that lets riders see Muni arrival times, the last thing he expected was to hear was that Muni's real-time arrival times were actually the property of a private company located in the East Bay. But that's exactly what happened, when Alex Orloff, COO of a company calling itself NextBus Information Systems, contacted him in August, 2008, demanding a "straight revenue split" or a "data licensing agreement" from Peterson. "
The War on Sharing: Why the FSF Cares About RIAA Lawsuits | TorrentFreak
http://torrentfreak.com/the-war-on-sharing-why-the-fsf-cares-about-riaa-lawsuits-090513
"In one of RIAA’s high profile cases the Free Software Foundation backed defendant Joel Tenenbaum, much to the dislike of the music industry lobby. John Sullivan, Operations Manager at the FSF explains in a guest post why they think these cases impact not just music, but also free software and its technology."
Revenge of the Sneakernet | Blog | Futurismic
http://futurismic.com/2008/06/10/revenge-of-the-sneakernet
"When music fans can say, ‘I have all the music from 1950-2010, do you want a copy?’ - what kind of business models will be viable in such a reality?"
Music Recording Industry Will Be First Traditional Media Industry To Be Utterly Destroyed By Digital Technology - Publishing 2.0
http://publishing2.com/2007/12/28/music-recording-industry-will-be-first-traditional-media-industry-to-be-utterly-destroyed-by-digital-technology
"The maxim goes that new technologies don’t kill off old media — radio didn’t kill newspapers, TV didn’t kill radio, etc. But it’s not clear this maxim will hold true in the digital age"
Pattern Recognition » Blog Archive » Technophobia or payola?
http://www.jasongriffey.net/wp/2007/09/18/technophobia-or-payola
"Oh wait, IT DOES SAY THAT THE PERSON RESPONSIBLE FOR COPYRIGHT IN THE US DOESN’T OWN A COMPUTER."
A Patent Lie - New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/09/opinion/09lee.html?ei=5088&emc=rss&en=22f3d8f9f3cfc921&ex=1339041600&partner=rssnyt
"As more and more lawsuits rock the industry, we should ask if software patents are stifling innovation. Bill Gates certainly thought so in 1991, even if he won’t admit it today."
A Great Idea Lives Forever. Shouldn’t Its Copyright? - New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/20/opinion/20helprin.html?ei=5124&en=3571064d77055f41&ex=1337313600&exprod=permalink&partner=permalink
"But it might also be for the public good were Congress to allow the enslavement of foreign captives and their descendants (this was tried); the seizure of Bill Gates’s bankbook; or the ruthless suppression of Alec Baldwin."
Wired 15.03: PLAY - Did Timbaland Do It?
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/15.03/play.html?pg=8
"Janne “Tempest” Suni claims the melody for “Do It,” a Timbaland-helmed track on Nelly Furtado’s 2006 platinum smash Loose, was filched from a chiptune he recorded in 2000."
BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Ninja kitten band win Coke battle
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6289933.stm
"An unsigned British band have reached a settlement with Coca-Cola over the soft drink giant's use of their material in a television commercial."
Push the Third Button Twice: The Pig and the Box
http://dustrunners.blogspot.com/2006/07/pig-and-box.html
"The Pig and the Box is about a pig who finds a magic box that can replicate anything you put into it. "
EFF: Frequently Awkward Questions for the Entertainment Industry
http://www.eff.org/IP/faq
"EFF has prepared a sample list of tough questions for times when you hear entertainment industry representatives speaking and want to challenge their positions."
Locus Online: Locus Magazine, Cory Doctorow Commentary, July 2006
http://www.locusmag.com/2006/Issues/07DoctorowCommentary.html
"Conversation, not content, is king. If you were stranded on a desert island and you opted to bring your records instead of your friends, we'd call you a sociopath."
Rip Rowan: Waves Native Gold Bundle 3.2 featuring PACE Interlok
http://www.prorec.com/prorec/articles.nsf/articles/4F0B51C39C17DA6386256B7F0077FBA6
"Copy protection schemes have, by and large, been a hoax from the start."
The Doc Searls Weblog : Welcome to the Long Run
http://doc.weblogs.com/2006/01/09#welcomeToTheLongRun
"We need to do with video what we've started doing with music: building a new and independent industry."
NPR : Copyright Laws Severely Limit Availability of Music
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5139522
"over 70 percent of American music recorded before 1965 is not legally available in the United States."
Wired News: Real Story of the Rogue Rootkit
http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,69601,00.html
"What happens when the creators of malware collude with the very companies we hire to protect us from that malware?"
Imagine a world without copyright - Editorials & Commentary - International Herald Tribune
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/10/07/opinion/edsmiers.php
"Our democratic right to freedom of cultural and artistic exchange is slowly but surely being taken away from us."
Unhappy Birthday
http://unhappybirthday.com
"Unhappy Birthday is a grassroots project run by citizens who are outraged by rampant copyright infringement in today's society particularly in relation to the song Happy Birthday."
Ed Foster's Gripelog || Paying Taxes on Software
http://www.gripe2ed.com/scoop/story/2005/9/27/0123/32797
"If, as software publishers insist, we don't buy their products but only license them, why are then required to pay property or sales tax as if they were normal purchases? And how should businesses calculate their capital expenses, depreciation, etc. on a
The Long Tail: "Just enough piracy"
http://longtail.typepad.com/the_long_tail/2005/08/just_enough_pir.html
"The lesson is to find a good-enough approach to content protection that is easy, convenient and non-annoying to most people, and then accept that there will be some leakage."
Jon Udell: I want my MP3
http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/2005/08/11.html#a1288
"If I can run a bunch of WMV and RealVideo files through an automated process to produce MP3s, so can the folks who created those files in the first place. And I sure wish they would."
SignOnSanDiego.com News Technology -- Snap judgments
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/computing/personaltech/20050530-9999-mz1b30snap.html
"Their photos have become collateral damage in the war on digital copyright infringement."
ASCII by Jason Scott: Why the BBS Documentary is Creative Commons
http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/000123.html
"I've tried to make a decent, good, solid loaf of bread here, which tastes good, is what it says it is, and doesn't cheat you." Definitely happy I bought this.
Silent tech majority invites Mickey Mouse to poison P2P | The Register
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/03/29/it_vendor_grokster/page2.html
"Let's see how Apple likes it though when iPod sales are halted for a few years as the courts decide how legitimate the device really is."
The MPAA vs. An Army of Mice
http://www.shutdownthis.com
"The only way to win is to stop waging war on your own customers and accept the fact that we are in control, not you."
MAKE: Blog: Photos from the EFF's "Build-In"!
http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2005/02/photos_from_the.html
"...using the open source MythTV from the KnoppMyth Linux distribution and the pcHDTV HD-3000 HD card, which will only be legal to buy up until July of 2005." That reminds me...
[IP] more on Dell to Add Security Chip to PCs
http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/200502/msg00008.html
"Richard Stallman, self-proclaimed founder of all that is Free, calls it Treacherous Computing."
Wired 13.01: They're Not Worthy
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.01/view.html?pg=5
"the pirates of the public domain are back"
On Intellectual Property, US Forgets Its Own Past - Global Policy Forum - Social and Economic Policy
http://www.globalpolicy.org/socecon/bwi-wto/wto/2002/1016forgets.htm
"In the 19th century, the United States was both a rapidly industrializing nation and - as Charles Dickens and others knew all too well - a bold pirate of intellectual property."
Electrolite: Memo to Planet BoingBoing.
http://nielsenhayden.com/electrolite/archives/005986.html
"The bad guys’ basic strategy is to portray themselves as defending the status quo while in fact effecting a revolutionary change."
Prepare to get screwed by digital rights management
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=19246
"I just wish one of you spineless but very rich companies had the balls to stand up and do the right thing for the consumer."
Ferreting out copyright scofflaws
http://news.com.com/Ferreting%20out%20copyright%20scofflaws/2100-1012_3-5303966.html
It is futile to try to make The Man look cool.
Penguin sticks head in the sand
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2000/08/08/penguin_sticks_head
"The US publishers of a harrowing real-life tale about Net-related child abuse are refusing to admit they cocked up after naming the book after a Web site owned by a British woman."
EFF: High-Definition Personal Video Recorder Cookbook
http://www.eff.org/broadcastflag/hdtv-introHY.php
"So you want to build your own HDTV personal video recorder before the broadcast flag mandate takes effect on July 30, 2005, leaving you with nothing but devices laden with Hollywood-imposed restrictions?"
USAO/CDCA Press Release: CINCINNATI MAN CHARGED WITH STREAMING ILLEGAL COPIES OF SCIENCE FICTION TELEVISION SHOW OVER THE INTERNET
http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/cac/pr2004/050.html
"As early as 2001, McGaughey provided visitors to his website the opportunity to download copies of Stargate SG-1 episodes." Hmm, still disgusting that the PATRIOT Act was invoked, but this sheds some different light.
SG-1 Archive Forums - SG-1 Archive Charged with Copyright Infringement
http://www.sg1archive.com/forums/index.php?s=fe7addd31c72c7a3733190261f1fdc21&showtopic=6807&st=216#entry212094
"The REAL reason for this lawsuit was that divx bootlegs of nearly (all?) every episode, up until a couple years ago, were available here for download. THAT'S why he got raided." Hmm, further down the rabbit hole.
Stargate Information Archive - Federal Charges Filed Against SG-1 Archive
http://www.sg1archive.com/nightmare.shtml
"Federal charges were filed against Adam McGaughey, creator of the popular SG1Archive.com website - a fan website devoted to the MGM-owned television show Stargate SG-1." And I just was just watching SG1 as I read this. Absolutely disgusting.
Cory Doctorow: Microsoft Research DRM talk
http://www.dashes.com/anil/stuff/doctorow-drm-ms.html
"Greetings fellow pirates! Arrrrr!"
Boing Boing: New Beasties disc has DRM -- Fight! For your right! To cooo-oopy!
http://www.boingboing.net/2004/06/11/new_beasties_disc_ha.html
Hmm, I wonder how much it'd cost to import the Japanese version, and if it'd not have DRM?
Interview with Chuck D & Hank Shocklee of Public Enemy
http://www.stayfreemagazine.org/archives/20/public_enemy.html
"But by 1991, no one paid zero for the records they sampled without getting sued. They had to pay a lot."
Chocolate and Vodka :: Something for Nothing: The Free Culture AudioBook Project
http://chocnvodka.blogware.com/blog/_archives/2004/5/24/75489.html
"Copyright is what stops people ripping you off or making money from your hard work. Isn't it?"
Ned Batchelder: Arcade copy protection
http://www.nedbatchelder.com/blog/20040426T062802.html
"A week later, the game has been physically destroyed, having collected about $25."
Just let PlayFair die already, ok?
http://wincent.org/article/articleview/221/1/25
"Apple's actually the good guy in this scenario and you are the bad guy."
Can Disney Build a Better Mickey Mouse?
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/18/movies/18GREE.html?pagewanted=all&position=?SCREW_YOUR_REG_SYSTEM_NYTIMES
Ironic that they fought to legislate to keep him, helped screw us over with copyright, but we don't really care about the Mouse.
Free legal downloads for $6 a month. DRM free. The artists get paid. We explain how…
http://www.theregister.com/2004/02/01/free_legal_downloads
Music industry way off track with song and dance about falling sales
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/03/28/1080412234274.html
E-book vendors fail, Canadian reader left without easy access to books
http://www.teleread.org/blog/2004_03_21_archive.html#1080138042298048
PLAZM | FONTS | DOWNLOADS
http://www.plazm.com/fonts/downloads
"By placing fragments of corporate icons into the form of an alphabet, Henss challenges the notion of ownership of letterforms."
The Importance of...: Dangermouse, the Jay-Z Construction Set and the Videogame Content Creation Model
http://www.corante.com/importance/archives/002342.html
As someone notes in comments, The Shamen gave away the set of samples used in Move Any Mountain on the single CD. I had a lot of fun with that in making MODs on the Amiga
altmusictv.com // MTV's 120 Minutes // Playlist Archive
http://www.altmusictv.com/120/archive.html
"altmusictv.com is tracking the legacy of MTV's 120 Minutes over the years, from 1986 all the way up to the final show on May 4, 2003."
Joyce grandson threatens to ban readings at festival
http://news.scotsman.com/arts.cfm?id=182392004
'"Of course, the Joyce estate is technically within its rights, but such vigorous enforcement is unnecessary and distasteful," said Joycean Andrew O’Baoill.'
Producer Of The Grey Album, Jay-Z/ Beatles Mash-Up, Gets Served
http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1484938/20040210/jay_z.jhtml?headlines=true
The Tyranny of Copyright?
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/25/magazine/25COPYRIGHT.html?pagewanted=print
My crush on Spyro, what Flash animations remind me of, and what the past will look like someday
http://diveintomark.org/archives/2001/07/29/my_crush_on_spyro_what_flash_animations_remind_me_of_and_what_the_past_will_look_like_someday
"...the only long-term effect of copy protection is to ensure that those who defeat it are immortalized."
Disney Icon Mickey Mouse Turns 75 (if only he were free)
http://www.local6.com/entertainment/2643696/detail.html