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April
- Beaming Up 3-D Objects On a Budget, New York Times, April 5, 2007
- Sculpture copying becomes far easier
March
- Viacom Sues YouTube Over Copyright, Washington Post, Mar. 13, 2007
- Our Case Against YouTube (By Michael Fricklas, Viacom General Counsel), Washington Post, Mar. 24, 2007
- Microsoft attacks Google on Copyright
February
- The NFL objects to video of their copyright warning 2/13/07 (I counter-notified)
- Court rules that Google breaches copyright with news service (in Belgium)
- NFL won't let church show game because it violates copyright law 2/1/07
- Wonder where the "55 inches" comes from? Take a look at the detailed "home-style exceptions" of 17 U.S.C. 110(5), exceptions to the public performance right.
- Man enforces copyright on the Electric Slide, News.com, February 3, 2007
- Should something so popular receive copyright protection?
January
- Suit by Record Companies Against XM Going to Trial, Washington Post, Jan. 20, 2007
- Maybe it is my youth or the fact that I don't view MP3s as something strange and new and weird, but this statement by the judge made me scratch my head: "It is manifestly apparent that the use of a radio-cassette player to record songs played over free radio does not threaten the market for copyrighted works as does the use of a recorder which stores songs from private radio broadcasts on a subscription fee basis."
- DJ Drama Arrested over Mixtapes, Billboard.com, Jan. 17, 2007
- Of particular interest after today's discussion on derivative works.
- Long discussion at http://www.freethedjs.com/ , including warrants that allege not a copyright-based arrest, but a state law allegation of failure to comply with Georgia's labeling law.
- http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/070205fa_fact_toobin Jeffrey Toobin From the 1/29/07 Issue of The New Yorker.
December
- Perez Hilton takes their best shots, LA Times, Dec. 17, 2006 (quoting David Nimmer)
- More on dvd technology wars
- More on AACS break from Prof. Ed Felten's Freedom to Tinker weblog