| Free Culture Forum: Oct 28-31, Barcelona | | Simona Levi sez, The FCForum (Oct 28-31, Barcelona) is an international arena in which to build and coordinate action around issues related to free/libre culture and access to knowledge. The FCForum brings together key organizations and active voices in the spheres of free/libre culture and knowledge, and provides a meeting point where we can find answers to the pressing questions behind the curre [..] Leer nota completa |  | Publicado 25-Oct-2010 por Cory Doctorow en actionbusinesstechnology
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| My Twitter debate with Minister who introduced Canada's DMCA | | After Canadian Heritage Minister James Moore decried opponents of his US-style copyright bill as "radical extremists" and vowed to "fight them on Twitter," I decided to take him up on his offer. So I followed his tweets for a while, responding to the things he was saying about his bill (some background on it here). Finally, he rose to the challenge, and we spent a merry hour having a vigorous airi [..] Leer nota completa | | Publicado 28-Jun-2010 por Cory Doctorow en actionbusinesstechnology
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| Viacom v Internet: round one to Internet | | Google's won the first round of the enormous lawsuit Viacom brought against it. Viacom is suing Google for $1 billion for not having copyright lawyers inspect all the videos that get uploaded to YouTube before they're made live (they're also asking that Google eliminate private videos because these movies -- often of personal moments in YouTubers' lives -- can't be inspected by Viacom's copyright [..] Leer nota completa | | Publicado 24-Jun-2010 por Cory Doctorow en actionbusinesstechnology
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| Americans: tell the White House to take a critical look at ACTA! | | Sherwin Sly from Public Knowledge writes in about the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, a secretive copyright treaty being negotiated without participation from public interest groups, poor countries, or the press: There's a lot of anger and frustration about ACTA, among users, legislators and policymakers, and even in the tech industry. The problem now, though, is that Congress isn't directly [..] Leer nota completa | | Publicado 23-Jun-2010 por Cory Doctorow en actionbusinesstechnology
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| Canadian Heritage Minister declares war on copyright reformers | | Michael Geist sez, "There was considerable attention yesterday on a media report stating that Canadian Heritage Minister James Moore warned against 'radical extremists' opposing C-32. A video of part of his remarks has now been posted online. The comments, which come after the prepared speech, feature a no-holds-barred attack against those arguing for fair copyright. According to Moore, some propo [..] Leer nota completa | | Publicado 23-Jun-2010 por Cory Doctorow en actionbusinesstechnology
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| Corruption: FCC's closed-door meetings on open Internet | | James from the New America Foundation says, "Following reports that of the FCC is holding closed door meetings for a possible Net Neutrality compromise, their blog disclosed this little tidbit: to the extent stakeholders discuss proposals with Commission staff regarding other approaches outside of the open proceedings at the Commission, the agency's ex parte disclosure requirements are not applica [..] Leer nota completa | | Publicado 23-Jun-2010 por Cory Doctorow en actionbusinesstechnology
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| Canadian Heritage Minister smears DMCA opponents as "radical extremists" | | Michael Geist sez, Canadian Heritage Minister James Moore today warned against those opposed to his Canadian DMCA, calling them "radical extremists." When Moore claims that critics of his bill are radical extremists, who is he speaking of? Who has criticized parts of the bill or called for reforms? A short list of those critical of the digital lock provisions in C-32 would include: * Liberal MPs * [..] Leer nota completa | | Publicado 23-Jun-2010 por Cory Doctorow en actionbusinesstechnology
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| New Apple terms allow them to collect and share your "precise, real-time location" | | iPhone/iPad users: the new version of iTunes showing up on your computer right about now has new, non-negotiable terms of service. If you install it, you "agree" to allow Apple to collect precise information about your location in real time and use it, sell it, or give it away. Apple promises that its location data is "collected anonymously in a form that does not personally identify you." Of cour [..] Leer nota completa | | Publicado 22-Jun-2010 por Cory Doctorow en actionbusinesstechnology
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| Canadian copyright astroturf site gives marching orders to its users | | Michael Geist sez, The copyright lobby's BalancedCopyrightforCanada.ca astroturfing site has added a new mandatory requirement for all users that want to participate in the Take Action items. According to a site user, the site now requires users to send a form letter to their relevant Member of Parliament. There are two letter options - one letter for entertainment industry employees and one gener [..] Leer nota completa | | Publicado 18-Jun-2010 por Cory Doctorow en actionbusinesstechnology
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| Copyright astroturfers target Torontoist | | The popular Torontoist blog found that all the comments on its coverage of the new Canadian copyright law were a little...similar. Turns out that Torontoist has been targetted by the astroturf website that the US record-labels started, pretending to be just a group of Canadian citizens worried about copyright. The site has instructed its "members" to correct Torontoist's misapprehension that just [..] Leer nota completa | | Publicado 17-Jun-2010 por Cory Doctorow en actionbusinesstechnology
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| To save journalism, save the net | | In a smartly argued editorial, Dan Gillmor argues that the most meaningful subsidy that any government can give to its journalists is a free, fast, fair and open Internet on which new journalistic business models can flourish without interference by corrupt telcos and self-interested media empires: First, direct subsidies for journalism are the wrong way to go, even dangerous. But we absolutely co [..] Leer nota completa | | Publicado 15-Jun-2010 por Cory Doctorow en actionbusinesstechnology
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| Music industry lobbyist calls for death penalty for piracy | | Here's Fran Nevrkla, Chairman and CEO of Phonographic Performance Ltd, a UK music industry association, addressing the group's AGM. Some choice morsels: Thank you, David, and thank you for putting some of those pirates behind bars. I know that regrettably capital punishment was abolished in this country some 50 years ago, sad it is, but a few years in jail is probably pretty OK... To the industry [..] Leer nota completa | | Publicado 14-Jun-2010 por Cory Doctorow en actionbusinesstechnology
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| Dutch court rules that discussing piracy is the same as committing piracy | | A Dutch court has ruled that disclosing the general location of files that infringe copyright is the same thing as infringing copyright itself. The website FTD has a forum where users discuss which Usenet newsgroups contain infringing movies. They do this in plain language, the Dutch equivalent of, "Hey, the group $FOO has the movie $BAR in it." The discussions don't include links. The Dutch court [..] Leer nota completa | | Publicado 08-Jun-2010 por Cory Doctorow en actionbusinesstechnology
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| Canada's DMCA, dissected | | Michael Geist sez, As expected, the Canadian government today introduced its own DMCA [ed: the US copyright law that has been in place for 12 years, resulting in tens of thousands of lawsuits against Americans without having any effect on infringement or delivering any new income to artists]. Despite a full national consultation and a public rejection of the old Bill C-61, discouragingly some thin [..] Leer nota completa | | Publicado 03-Jun-2010 por Cory Doctorow en actionbusinesstechnology
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| Canada's DMCA was designed to "satisfy US demand" | | Michael Geist sez, The Canadian government will introduce its DMCA this afternoon, leaving some to wonder why a U.S. style approach to digital locks is being implemented when so many Canadians spoke out against it. The simple answer may be revealed from a former Minister of Industry chief of staff, who told a PhD candidate researching copyright policy that the Prime Minister required that the U.S. [..] Leer nota completa | | Publicado 02-Jun-2010 por Cory Doctorow en actionbusinesstechnology
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| Digital Economy Act sets UK gov't on the path to ever-more-punitive Internet laws | | My latest Guardian column, "Why the Digital Economy Act simply won't work," warns that now that the British state has assumed responsibility for maximizing the profits of entertainment companies, it will have to take ever-more-restrictive measures against its own people: And because once the state decides that it has a duty to police the internet to maximise the profits of a few entertainment comp [..] Leer nota completa | | Publicado 01-Jun-2010 por Cory Doctorow en actionbusinesstechnology
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| Talking copyright, For the Win and iPads with ABC News | | Last week I did a quick, fun interview with ABC News in New York, outside one of the bigger Apple Stores. We talked For the Win, the iPad, and copyright reform. The ABC folks were good enough to put the video online and make an embed available, too....
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| Canadian students speak out against the Canadian DMCA | | Noah from the Canadian Federation of Students sez, "The video was released today to draw attention to the issue and build momentum for the campaign prior to the tabling of new copyright legislation next week." This is great work. The Fight for Fair Copyright (Thanks, Noah!) 7 Copyright Questions for Canada's DMCA Minister Canada's Heritage Minister ready to bring back DMCA-style ... Canadian Prime [..] Leer nota completa | | Publicado 28-May-2010 por Cory Doctorow en actionbusinesstechnology
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| Los dos nuevos videoclips de EXILE | | Como dijimos hace pocos días que iba a salir el nuevo CD de EXILE. Pues les completamos la noticias con los dos videoclips que acompaña a el disco y también completamos el post del nuevo single de AI que también se los avisábamos:
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