Showing posts with label DMCA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label DMCA. Show all posts
Saturday, July 04, 2020

Cojones On The Cutting Edge

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On Independence Day, I write about Courage, Class Action, a culture of piracy... and sauce for the gander. Courage first. The copyrightall...
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Saturday, March 28, 2020

False Flags

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This week, the Authors Guild exposed a gob-smacking abuse of the public trust and of the concept of law order and copyright. Kudos to Author...
Saturday, February 22, 2020

Who's Got Your Authorial Back?

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While not every authors' organization is as helpful as helpful can be, here are a few: SFWA has a sample DMCA generator online. https...
Saturday, October 27, 2018

The Law And Unintended Consequences

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This weekend is the twentieth anniversary  (china!) of the signing of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA).  As for me, I mentally awa...
Sunday, December 10, 2017

In Praise Of Procrastinators....

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Well, perhaps not "in praise", but I like alliteration in my titles. It would be more accurate to title this article, "Sympat...
Sunday, August 13, 2017

Are Your Works Being Infringed?

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Someone asked me how to find out if their works are being infringed. One method is to do an online search for the title of their book(s) a...
Sunday, February 05, 2017

A Good Take-Down (DMCA related)

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This week, I had a most excellent experience of the Take-Down kind with Scribd. A Google Alert  informed me (a daily occurrence) that one ...
Sunday, December 04, 2016

There Are Limits (to Safe Harbor), Pallante Protest, And More....

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The legal blog of  Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP  (not a blog I've seen before) provides a detailed and fascinating --at least for copyr...
Sunday, November 13, 2016

Website Owners And Blog Owners -- Protect Yourself

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I've only seen this on legal blogs...  Effective December 1st 2016, if you want Safe Harbor protection for your website or blog or app, ...
Thursday, November 10, 2016

Cory Doctorow on Despotic Dominion

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Cory Doctorow's latest LOCUS column delves into some oddities of copyright, intellectual property, and the DMCA (which he calls "a ...
Sunday, May 01, 2016

EMF 24/7

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Can one prove something that one does not want to prove?  Of course, but there will be a bias, and the bias may skew the results. Moreover, ...
Saturday, February 06, 2016

How Is the DMCA Working For You?

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If you are a creator (author, musician, songwriter, photographer, artist) and have had your copyrights infringed by others, your thoughts, e...
Sunday, September 20, 2015

Intellectual Property Rights, Hypocrisy, Transparency, Immorality (By Others)

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I mean to write about government "consent degrees", which seems to me to be an Orwellian term for the situation where authors (whe...
Monday, May 12, 2014

Opining On Last Week's News (relating to authors' rights)

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The USPTO hosted a six-hour long forum last week with the noble goal of exploring whether DMCA TakeDown notices can be standardized in the ...