Posts Tagged ‘ copyright ’

ContestedFooty.com receives cease and desist from AFL

  • May 7th, 2009
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[ Reposted from the EFA site. ] ContestedFooty.com, an AFL commentary blog run by some university students in Melbourne, has received a Cease & Desist letter from the AFL. The AFL allege that the blog infringes their intellectual property rights – both the trademarks and the copyright in the AFL and team logos and names. [ READ MORE ]

Pirate Bay on Triple J Hack

  • April 21st, 2009
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Today I went into the ABC studios to do a short interview on Triple J's Hack program. You can listen to the podcast (TPB story comes in about 20 minutes into the audio). One of the points I didn't get across, which I would have liked to, is the point that Doctorow, O'Reilly, and Pesce [ READ MORE ]

MDY v Blizzard

  • March 30th, 2009
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mdy, blizzard, glider, wow, copyright, norms, rules, enforcement, damages MDY v Blizzard provides one of the hard questions through which I'm framing my thesis. This case concerns how internal rules are going to be able to be enforced in virtual communities, and to what extent copyright is the appropriate vehicle for their enforcement. Virtually Blind [ READ MORE ]

Julie E Cohen free public lecture

  • March 23rd, 2009
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JEC, julie cohen, qut, free public lecture, copyright Kylie is reporting that QUT will be hosting a free public lecture by Professor Julie E. Cohen on Monday 25 May 2009. Topic: Copyright and Creativity Date: Monday 25 May 2009 Time: 5.00pm-6.30pm Location: Gibson Room (Room Z1064), Level 10, Z Block of QUT's Gardenspoint Campus (map). [ READ MORE ]

EU Parliament votes for greater ACTA transparency

  • March 12th, 2009
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acta, copyright, democracy, eu, secrecy Michael Geist is reporting that ”[t]he European Parliament has voted for a proposal to bring more transparency and public access to documents. The resolution includes specific language about the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement.” Acting in accordance with Article 255(1) of the EC Treaty, the European Commission should immediately make all documents [ READ MORE ]

NSW Premier on open access to timetables

  • March 11th, 2009
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copyright, originality, transit sydney Image from Trainview. Last week I wrote that RailCorp had threatened the makers of an iPhone app that shows public transit timetables with copyright infringement. Asher Moses reported on Monday that NSW Premier Nathan Rees has "indicated he would override RailCorp's decision and force the bureaucracy to meet the mobile software [ READ MORE ]

Originality and Transit Sydney: Australia’s low standard of originality claims another victim

  • March 5th, 2009
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copyright, originality, transit sydney, fair use, icetv, dms v telstra, subsistence Asher Moses is reporting today that RailCorp have threatened to sue the developer of Transit Sydney for infringing copyright in their public transport timetables. Transit Sydney is an iPhone app, sold through the store for $2.49 ('just to cover costs'). It provides a display [ READ MORE ]

New Zealand s92A graduated response delayed

  • February 23rd, 2009
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The statutory licence for cover versions and Creative Commons licensing

  • February 18th, 2009
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copyright, Posts related to Creative Commons, s 55, musical, works, music, covers, record Section 55 of the Copyright Act provides a statutory licence that allows 'manufacturers' to record musical works for retail sale, or for making other records for retail sale. The scheme is remarkably convoluted, and there are a number of restrictions – most [ READ MORE ]

Obama poster in Australia: we still don’t have a transformative exception

  • February 12th, 2009
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copyright, obama, poster, associated press, shepard fairey, fair use, transformative use The original Associated Press photograph of Barack Obama and Shepard Fairey’s “Hope” poster (compilation from NYT blog story). (I originally wrote some of this content for EFA's submission (PDF) to the Department of Broadband, Communication and Digital Economy’s Future Directions review.) In a major [ READ MORE ]

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