Check this one out, the US proposed Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement: The ACTA draft is a scary document. If a treaty based on its provisions were…
Tag: copyright
Tired of suing customers, music industry group goes after the cops. I kid you not! UK music licensing outfit the “Performing Right Society” (PRS) –…
Via The Pirate’s Dilemma
Matt Mason has officially released his latest book The Pirates Dilemma for free online. Why would an author give away a book for free? Obviously…
The folks over at MIT Free Culture have created YouTomb. YouTomb is a research project by MIT Free Culture that tracks videos taken down from…
"All rights reserved. All lefts gregarious. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form, or by any means, electronic or…
TorrentFreak has a great post explaining some of the most common misconceptions about anti-piracy enforcement today. They are: There have been very few actual legal…
In Cory Doctorow’s latest Locus column he discusses the reproduction methodology of the dandelions (something I’m currently fighting in my own back year, literally,) and…
Woah! It looks like Happy Birthday might not actually be under copyright. "Happy Birthday to You" is the best-known and most frequently sung song in…
Ok, I exaggerate a little but this is getting a smidge ridiculous. The MPAA is demanding $15.4 million from The Pirate Bay to "cover the…