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GUARDIANPirated novelist gets on board with rogue translator
Online references to his book lead Peter Mountford to baffled Russian reader – at work on illegal ebook version.
FalkvingeHow The Copyright Industry Drives A Big Brother Dystopia
All too often, I hear that the copyright industry doesn’t understand the Internet, doesn’t understand the net generation, doesn’t understand how technology has changed. This is not only wrong, it is dangerously wrong. In order to defeat an adversary, you must first come to understand their state of mind, rather than painting them as evil. The copyright industry understands exactly what the Internet is, and that it needs to be destroyed for that industry to stay even the slightest relevant.
LROBWho Owns Kafka?
An ongoing trial in Tel Aviv is set to determine who will have stewardship of several boxes of Kafka’s original writings, including primary drafts of his published works, currently stored in Zurich and Tel Aviv.
tzal.orgBuddhism and piracy: ethics for post-scarcity copyright infringement
How should we face the ethics of copying as Buddhists.
marketwatchWho inherits your iTunes library?
Immaterial, uncompeting goods... who are the fools who still buy them? Problems like this, so so so stupid it makes me wanna scream!
The OutlineMy dad painted the iconic cover for Jethro Tull’s ‘Aqualung,’ and it’s haunted him ever since
His quest to receive proper compensation illuminates the struggle for artists’ rights, and how decades-old grievances become coded into rock and roll mythology.
WIREDLet's Limit the Effect of Software Patents
Since We Can't Eliminate Them... Patents threaten every software developer, and the patent wars we have long feared have broken out.
GUARDIANLibraries show empty displays in protest against copyright law
Libraries and museums across the UK show their anger at extended restrictions on public release of documents.
melmagazineAfter 15 Years, the Pirate Bay Still Can’t Be Killed
As the internet continues to evolve at an unprecedented rate, one thing always remains constant — The Pirate Bay.
FalkvingeNew Japanese Copyright Law Doesn't Seem To Make Any Sense
Beginning this October Japan will experience a totally new copyright regime. Piracy in Japan has always been especially dangerous. The police monitor file sharing...
wikipediaThe tragic tale of a legendary concert taper
Reclusive, genius, paranoid, obsessive, legendary… // Mike Millard earned his “Mike the Mike” nickname by taping now-legendary shows by some of the biggest names in 1970s rock music. For Millard, taping concerts was his life. A perpetual recluse, Mike obsessed over his tapes and their destinies. But in 1990, it all came to a tragic end. The tale of Mike Millard is one that has been whispered in underground circles for decades, perhaps now it’s time for him to receive the recognition he never saw in his lifetime.
TECHDIRTAbsurdity Of Copyright Policy Leaves Dutch Supreme Court Confused
The Dutch Supreme Court (Hoge Raad) has posed some pre-judicial questions to the Court of Justice of…
ARSTECHNICAAPI copyrights a “threat” to tech sector, scientists tell Supreme Court
At stake: “Unprecedented and dangerous power over the future of innovation.”
TheAtlanticMIT Economist: Here's How Copyright Laws Impoverish Wikipedia
Using a little-known copyright rule and a trove of…
economistWebsites offering pirated papers are shaking up science
“Musicians and moviemakers are not the only ones to suffer from internet piracy”. China and Iran are reading our science for free, oh bu-hu. // The Economist sides with publishers. Oh, how surprising. But the tides are still turning, you hegemonic pigs you!
torrentfreakSci-Hub Proves That Piracy Can be Dangerously Useful
Despite two lost legal battles in the US, domain name seizures, and millions of dollars in damage claims, Sci-Hub continues to offer unauthorized access to academic papers. The site's founder says that she would rather operate legally, but copyright gets in the way. Sci-Hub is not the problem she argues, it's a solution, something many academics appear to agree with.
NYBOOKSDoes Copyright Matter?
Do I, as an author, have the right to prevent people copying my books for free? Should I have it? Does it matter? Officially the idea is that the writer, artist, or musician should be allowed to reap the just rewards for his effort. This is quaint.…
Washington PostHow copyright law hides work like Zora Neale Hurston’s new book from the public
On Tuesday, Amistad Press, a division of HarperCollins, will release Zora Neale Hurston’s long-unpublished first book, “Barracoon: The Story of the Last ‘Black Cargo,’” edited by Deborah G. Plant. In late April, Vulture published excerpts from the book, which the magazine said had “languished in a vault” since 1931. I’m thrilled by the publication of Hurston’s short book on such an important subject — but I wish that we could stop talking about unpublished manuscripts in such terms. In many cases, it’s not, as such language suggests, scholarly neglect that hides these works from the public eye. Instead, the trouble begins with onerous and excessive copyright protections, protections that are meant to profit the Walt Disney Co. more than they are intended to enrich our understanding of American literature.
TheAtlanticWhy There Are Too Many Patents in America
Having just dismissed a high-profile patent suit between Apple and Motorola, one of our leading jurists discusses the problems plaguing America's intellectual property system.
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