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Copyright touches writers, music lovers, teachers, musicians, businesses, artists, amateur filmmakers, students, libraries, and publishers – to name just a few! In other words, these days everyone is affected by copyright and everyone needs to have at least a basic understanding of it. Copyright Talk discusses issues and developments everyone needs to know about.
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FAS is a Direxion Financial Bull 3X Shares (ETF) The Market to Market rule changes that may come next week can potentially sky rocket financials. I have FAS calls (super leveraged) that I will hold. [...] - Copyright Basics in the Digital World
Copyright. The concept is pretty simple – copyright provides a territorial claim to intellectual property (creative ideas set down in a fixed medium) that allows the creator to profit from the [...] - Illegal Downloading Court hearing may be Webcast
Although the RIAA has recently said that it will stop suing individual who may be illegally sharing music files - in other words, people the RIAA believes may be infringing their copyright but not as [...] - There's No Law Against Being Stupid
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Washington lawyer Thomas Perrelli has been nominated by President-elect Obama for the position of associate attorney general, third in command at the Justice Department. Perrelli has much experience [...] - DRM for books?
A recent column in the New York Times considers whether the ease of finding used copies of books is causing - or at least contributing to - the cratering of the publishing business. Although [...] - Lawsuits to End?
The Wall Street Journal reports that the RIAA is planning to end its controversial anti-piracy strategy of filing copyright infringement lawsuits against any and all small time possible infringers, [...] - Google Settlement Draws Ire
The proposed settlement between Google and various book publishers (which still needs final approval from the Court) is slowly getting more and more clear. There are more than 300 pages in the [...] - College Test Files
There's a difference between access and copying. But the difference is not so intuitively obvious in the case of online archives. It is critical, however, in determining the possibility of [...] - Song-Swapping Lawsuits Face [real] Challenge
The quick recap: * peer to peer file swapping is huge * recording industry believes song swapping interferes with sales * Song swapping really is a copyright infringment in many cases * Recording [...]
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