[MCN-L] IP SIG: Fwd: VRA Intellectual Property Rights News: November 2007
Diane M. Zorich
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>Compiled by Jen Green, University of Minnesota
>
>
>Fair Use Advocates Issue Principles for
>Protecting Online Videos: Six Concrete
>Guidelines Aim to Balance Free Speech Rights and
>Copyright
>Electronic Frontier Foundation, October 31, 2007
><http://www.eff.org/press/archives/2007/10/31>http://www.eff.org/press/archives/2007/10/31
>
>San Francisco - "Online video-hosting services
>like YouTube have ushered in a new era of free
>expression online, as well as vigorous copyright
>enforcement efforts. Today, the Electronic
>Frontier Foundation (EFF) and a coalition of
>leading public interest groups issued a "Fair
>Use Principles" document that sets out six
>concrete guidelines designed to minimize the
>collateral damage that copyright enforcement
>efforts may inflict on video creators who are
>"remixing" copyrighted material into new video
>creations."
>
>
>Senators Want Justice Department to Sue P2P Pirates
>posted by Declan McCullagh, c | net
><http://news.com>news.com, November 7, 2007
><http://www.news.com/8301-13578_3-9813358-38.html>http://www.news.com/8301-13578_3-9813358-38.html
>
>Two senators, a Democrat and a Republican,
>introduced a bill on Wednesday that would
>unleash the world's largest law firm on Internet
>pirates. It would authorize the Justice
>Department to file civil lawsuits against people
>engaged in peer-to-peer copyright
>infringement--with the proceeds going to the
>company or person who owns the copyright.
>
>
>
>Google Sued over Patent by Northeastern University
>by Eric Auchard, <http://Reuters.com>Reuters.com, November 11, 2007
><http://www.reuters.com/article/technology-media-telco-SP/idUSN1141636620071112>http://www.reuters.com/article/technology-media-telco-SP/idUSN1141636620071112
>
>SAN FRANCISCO- Google Inc faces a federal patent
>infringement lawsuit by Northeastern University
>over technology used in its core Web search
>system, according to legal papers filed last
>week.
>
>
>New Bill would Punish Colleges, Students Who don't Become Copyright Cops
>by Eric Bangeman, Ars Technica: the art of technology, November 11, 2007
><http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071111-new-bill-would-turn-colleges-into-copyright-cops.html>http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071111-new-bill-would-turn-colleges-into-copyright-cops.html
>
>A massive education bill (747-page PDF)
>introduced into Congress contains a provision
>that would force colleges and universities to
>offer "technology-based deterrents" to
>file-sharing under the pain of losing all
>federal financial aid. Section 494 of the
>College Opportunity and Affordability Act of
>2007 is entitled "Campus-Based Digital Theft
>Prevention" that could have just as easily been
>called "Motion Picture and Recording Industry
>Subsidies," as it could force schools into
>signing up for subscription-based services like
>Napster and Rhapsody.
>
>See related articles below:
>
>"Bill Would Make Colleges Copyright Cops";
>
>"Campus Copyright Mandates Threaten Financial
>Aid Funds and Campus Networks";
>
>"RIAA should be blocked from obtaining any data
>from schools, argues student"; and
>
>"MPAA University 'Toolkit' Raises Privacy Concerns"
>
>
>French Digital Library Project Protects Copyright: Official
>by AFP, Google News, November 12, 2007
><http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5go-RywJEn735IICVmgMCywOOx29A>http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5go-RywJEn735IICVmgMCywOOx29A
>
>
>Paris-- "The French National Library's massive program to digitize billions of
>books and documents should widen their availability without violating
>copyright rules, the head of the library said Tuesday."
>
>
>Bill Would Make Colleges Copyright Cops
>by Jonathon D. Glater, New York Times: Technology, November 13, 2007
><http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/11/13/bill-would-make-colleges-copyright-cops/>http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/11/13/bill-would-make-colleges-copyright-cops/
>
>A proposed education bill would require colleges
>to develop a plan to prevent students from
>trading copyrighted works. Grants would be
>awarded to higher-education institutions that
>develop programs of piracy prevention and
>education. Some University officials criticize
>the fact that this legislation is aimed at
>"colleges and universities-which industry
>leaders admit are responsible for only a
>fraction of illegal file-sharing."
>
>
>Blog: Electronic Frontier Foundation: Deeplinks
>Campus Copyright Mandates Threaten Financial Aid Funds and Campus Networks
>posted by Richard Esguerra, November 13th, 2007
><http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2007/11/campus-copyright-mandates-threaten-financial-aid-funds-and-campus-networks>http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2007/11/campus-copyright-mandates-threaten-financial-aid-funds-and-campus-networks
>
>UPDATE: H.R. 4137 was unanimously approved by
>the House Education and Labor Committee. Stay
>tuned for more news and actions you can take to
>oppose this threat.
>
>After being beaten back in a Senate amendment
>this past summer, mandatory campus copyright
>policing is back with a vengeance. The House's
>latest higher education bill includes nasty
>requirements for "Campus-Based Digital Theft
>Prevention," mandating that schools plan to
>provide legal downloading alternatives and that
>campuses consider policing copyrights on their
>networks. Campuses that fail to comply stand to
>lose massive amounts of federal financial aid
>funds that go to straight to students. The bill,
>H.R. 4137, will be marked up by the House
>Committee on Education and Labor early
>Wednesday, November 13 so please take action now.
>
>
>RIAA Should be Blocked from Obtaining any Data from Schools, Argues Student
>by Eric Bangeman, Ars Technica: the art of
>technology, November 14, 2007 -
><http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071114-riaa-should-be-blocked-from-obtaining-any-data-from-schools-argues-student.html>http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071114-riaa-should-be-blocked-from-obtaining-any-data-from-schools-argues-student.html
>
>An anonymous George Washington University
>student targeted by the RIAA for file-sharing is
>seeking to have the subpoena served on his
>school quashed and the complaint dismissed. In
>his motion, the unnamed student raises a couple
>of issues that could become significant
>roadblocks for the RIAA in its campaign against
>on-campus file-sharing.
>
>
>Blog: The Pervasive Data Center: Revoking Open Source
>posted by Gordon Haff, CNET. November 14, 2007
><http://www.cnet.com/8301-13556_1-9816749-61.html>http://www.cnet.com/8301-13556_1-9816749-61.html
>
>"Those of us who have actually read through many of the Open Source licenses
>and have spent a fair bit of time mulling and discussing their consequences
>take a lot of things for granted. One of those things is that once a program,
>or anything else, is released under an Open Source license you can't just take
>it back. Maybe this seems obvious to you, or maybe not, but it isn't to
>everyone."
>
>
>Access Copyright Sues Staples/Business Depot for Copyright Infringement
>CNW Group, November 15, 2007
><http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/November2007/15/c8764.html>http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/November2007/15/c8764.html
>
>Toronto- Access Copyright, an organization
>representing the copyright of almost 9,000
>Canadian writers and publishers is suing
>Staples/The Business Depot for copyright
>infringement. The lawsuit, filed by Access
>Copyright, contains the largest claim to arise
>from copyright infringement of published works
>in Canada. The lawsuit seeks $10 million in
>damages, including a claim for punitive damages.
>
>
>Blog: c | net Newsblog: RIAA, MPAA Urge
>Pro-Copyright Vows from Presidential Candidates
>by Anne Broache, CNET News, November 20, 2007
><http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9821141-7.html?tag=nefd.top>http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9821141-7.html?tag=nefd.top
>
>A coalition of entertainment and publishing
>industry heavyweights would like to see the 2008
>presidential candidates champion "meaningful
>copyright protection" in their policy platform.
>
>See related article below : "Big Content asks
>Presidential Candidates for more Restrictive
>Copyright Laws"
>
>
>Blog: Just An Online Minute...: Coming: Brave New World of Copyright Chasing?
>by Wendy Davis, MediaPost, November 20, 2007
><http://blogs.mediapost.com/online_minute/?p=1611>http://blogs.mediapost.com/online_minute/?p=1611
>
>Many observers have said that copyright laws are out of touch with everyday
>experience. Now, University of Utah professor John Tehranian has laid out the
>case for that proposition in his law review article, "Infringement Nation:
>Copyright Reform and the Norm/Law Gap."
>
>See also related article below: "Scheier on
>Security: Law Review Article on the Problems
>with Copyright"
>
>
>
>Free Software Group Files Copyright Lawsuits
>by Grant Gross, IDG News Service, November 20, 2007.
><http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/112007-free-software-group-files-copyright.html>http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/112007-free-software-group-files-copyright.html
>
>The Software Freedom Law Center, an organization focused on protecting
>open-source and free software, has filed copyright lawsuits against two U.S.
>companies, alleging that they are redistributing software in violation of the
>GNU GPL (General Public License).
>
>A coalition of entertainment and publishing industry heavyweights would like
>to see the 2008 presidential candidates champion "meaningful copyright
>protection" in their policy platforms.
>
>
>Big Content asks Presidential Candidates for more Restrictive Copyright Laws
>by Ryan Paul, Ars Technica: the art of technology, November 21, 2007
><http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071121-riaampaa-ask-presidential-candidates-for-more-restrictive-copyright-laws.html>http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071121-riaampaa-ask-presidential-candidates-for-more-restrictive-copyright-laws.html
>
>The Copyright Alliance, which counts the MPAA
>and RIAA amongst its members, has sent letters
>and questionnaires to presidential candidates in
>an effort to determine where they stand on
>issues relating to intellectual property law. In
>a copy of the letter seen by Ars, Copyright
>Alliance executive director Patrick Ross says he
>speaks "on behalf of the 11 million Americans
>employed in the creative industries," and
>asserts that piracy reduction is essential.
>
>
>Blog: Profy: In Face Of Copyright Controversy,
>Yahoo! and Sony Agree To Share Ad Revenue
>by Paul Glazowski, <http://Profy.com>Profy.com, November 22, 2007
><http://tinyurl.com/2bkmqk>http://tinyurl.com/2bkmqk
>
>The Associated Press reported this week that Sony BMG "inked a licensing deal
>with Yahoo! Inc. that clears the way for people to upload files with music or
>video content by the record company's artists" to Yahoo!-owned sites.
>
>
>Report: Hollywood Giants Sue Chinese Internet Site
>by Reuters, C | Net <http://News.com>News.com, November 22, 2007
><http://www.news.com/Report-Hollywood-giants-sue-Chinese-Internet-site/2100-1030_3-6219833.html?tag=item>http://www.news.com/Report-Hollywood-giants-sue-Chinese-Internet-site/2100-1030_3-6219833.html?tag=item
>
>Five Hollywood studios have sued a Chinese
>online service and Internet café they accuse of
>offering pirated downloads of Pirates of the
>Caribbean and other hits films, state media
>reported.
>
>
>Kenya: Copyright Board Takes Piracy War to Cyber Cafes
>by Okuttah Mark, Business Daily (Nairobi), AllAfrica.com. November 26, 2007
><http://allafrica.com/stories/200711262040.html>http://allafrica.com/stories/200711262040.html
>
>Cyber cafe operators within Nairobi are torn between legalizing their
>Microsoft software operating system, shifting to Open Source Code or closing
>shop all together following the crack down on illegal software.
>
>
>Blog: Security Fix: MPAA University 'Toolkit' Raises Privacy Concerns
>by Brian Krebs, Washington Post, November 23, 2007
><http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2007/11/mpaa_university_toolkit_opens_1.html>http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2007/11/mpaa_university_toolkit_op
>ens_1.html
>
>The Motion Picture Association of America is urging some of the nation's
>largest universities to deploy custom software designed to pinpoint students
>who may be using the schools' networks to illegally download pirated movies. A
>closer look at the MPAA's software, however, raises some serious privacy and
>security concerns for both the entertainment industry and the schools that
>choose to deploy the technology.
>
>
>Blog: Scheier on Security: Law Review Article on the Problems with Copyright
>by Bruce Schneier, November 26, 2007
><http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/11/law_review_arti.html>http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/11/law_review_arti.html
>
>Scheier's review of John Tehranian's article
>entitled
>"<http://www.turnergreen.com/publications/Tehranian_Infringement_Nation.pdf>Infringement
>Nation: Copyright Reform and the Law/Norm Gap"
>
>Scheier writes, "By the end of the day, John has
>infringed the copyrights of twenty emails, three
>legal articles, an architectural rendering, a
>poem, five photographs, an animated character, a
>musical composition, a painting, and fifty notes
>and drawings. All told, he has committed at
>least eighty-three acts of
>infringement and faces liability in the amount of $12.45 million (to say
>nothing of potential criminal charges)."
>
>
>Best Practices for Handling Issues of Bandwidth and Copyright
>Chronicle of Higher Education: The Wired Campus, November 26, 2007
><http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=2566>http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=2566
>
>A network administrator at Brandeis University is surveying colleagues on
>other campuses to better understand how colleges
>manage bandwidth and handle complaints of online
>copyright infringement. Brandeis itself plans to
>update its policies and procedures on those
>issues.
>
>
>
>Online Library Offers 1.5 million Works and Counting
>by Candace Lombardi, C |Net <http://News.com>News.com, November 27, 2007
><http://www.news.com/Online-library-offers-1.5-million-works-and-counting/2100-1025_3-6220358.html>http://www.news.com/Online-library-offers-1.5-million-works-and-counting/2100-1025_3-6220358.html
><http://www.news.com/Online-library-offers-1.5-million-works-and-counting/2100-1025_3-6220358.html>
>The Universal Digital Library, a book-scanning
>project backed by several major libraries across
>the globe, has completed the digitization of 1.5
>million books and on Tuesday made them free and
>publicly available.
>
>
>
>Software Group Targets Small Business
>Sydney Morning Herald, November 27, 2007
><http://www.smh.com.au/news/TECHNOLOGY/Software-Group-Targets-Small-Business/2007/11/26/1195975898701.html>http://www.smh.com.au/news/TECHNOLOGY/Software-Group-Targets-Small-Business/2007/11/26/1195975898701.htm
>
>An analysis by The Associated Press reveals that
>targeting small businesses is a lucrative
>strategy for the Business Software Alliance, the
>main global copyright-enforcement watchdog for
>such companies as Microsoft Corp., Adobe Systems
>Inc. and Symantec Corp.
>
>
>Blog: Kapica's Cyberia Blög: A New Copyright Law is Coming
>by Jack Kapica, Globe and Mail. November 27, 2007
><http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20071127.WBcyberia20071127170629/WBStory/WBcyberia>http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20071127.WBcyberia20071127170629/WBStory/WBcyberia
>
>"Ottawa copyright circles are buzzing with hints that the government is
>preparing its new revised copyright bill, and will be tabling it soon, perhaps
>as early as next week. And the buzz is that the new law will basically be a
>copy of the controversial U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)."
>
>
>Balance Needed in Copyright Reform Bill
>by David Canton, London Free Press (Ontario), November 27, 2007
><http://lfpress.ca/newsstand/Business/Columnists/2007/11/26/4685798-sun.html>http://lfpress.ca/newsstand/Business/Columnists/2007/11/26/4685798-sun.html
>
>In a move that will comfort many online users, the RCMP have announced they
>will not target people who download copyrighted material for their personal
>use.
>
>
>EFF Releases Reports and Software to Spot
>Interference with Internet Traffic: Technology
>Rights Group Addresses the Comcast Controversy
>Electronic Frontier Foundation, November 28, 2007
><http://www.eff.org/press/archives/2007/11/28>http://www.eff.org/press/archives/2007/11/28
>
>San Francisco - In the wake of the detection and
>reporting of Comcast Corporation's controversial
>interference with Internet traffic, the
>Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has
>published a comprehensive account of Comcast's
>packet-forging activities and has released
>software and documentation instructing Internet
>users on how to test for packet forgery or other
>forms of interference by their own ISPs.
>
>
>Whitepaper: Packet Forgery by ISPs: A Report on the Comcast Affair
>Electronic Frontier Foundation, November, 2007
><http://www.eff.org/wp/packet-forgery-isps-report-comcast-affair>http://www.eff.org/wp/packet-forgery-isps-report-comcast-affair
>
>Comcast is the second largest Internet Service
>Provider (ISP) in the United States. They run
>the cable TV and cable Internet networks in many
>parts of the United States, and many consumers
>know them as their duopoly or monopoly provider
>of residential broadband Internet access. Some
>time around May 2007, Comcast installed new
>software or equipment on its networks that began
>selectively interfering with some of Comcast's
>customers' TCP/IP connections. The most widely
>discussed interference was with certain
>BitTorrent peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing
>communications, but other protocols have also
>been affected. This white paper is intended to
>set forth the current state of public knowledge
>about Comcast's interference activities.
>
>
>Whitepaper: Detecting Packet Injection: A Guide
>to Observing Packet Spoofing by ISPs
>Electronic Frontier Foundation, November 2007
><http://www.eff.org/wp/detecting-packet-injection>http://www.eff.org/wp/detecting-packet-injection
>
>Certain Internet service providers have begun to
>interfere with their users' communications by
>injecting forged or spoofed packets - data that
>appears to come from the other end but was
>actually generated by an Internet service
>provider (ISP) in the middle. This spoofing is
>one means (although not the only means) of
>blocking, jamming, or degrading users' ability
>to use particular applications, services, or
>protocols. One important means of holding ISPs
>accountable for this interference is the ability
>of some subscribers to detect and document it
>reliably. We have to learn what ISPs are doing
>before we can try to do something about it.
>Internet users can often detect interference by
>comparing data sent at one end with data
>received at the other end of a connection.
>
>
>
>Blog: (C)ollectanea, Collected Perspectives on Copyright
>Center for Intellectual Property, University of
>Maryland University College, November 2007
><http://chaucer.umuc.edu/blogcip/collectanea/>http://chaucer.umuc.edu/blogcip/collectanea/
>
>Join the Center for Intellectual Property' s
>Scholar, Georgia Harper, in a discussion of
>current copyright issues.
>
>
>
>
>
>Acknowledgments:
>I would like to extend a year-end thank you to
>the following VRA-IPR members who have been
>monitoring multiple listservs to make this IPR
>news posting possible: Kathy Evans, Purdue
>University; Leigh Gates, The Art Institute of
>Chicago; Leslie Melvin, Bard College; Tammy
>Morse, University of Toronto at Mississaugu;
>Sonja Staum, Indiana University-Purdue
>University Indianapolis; and Megan Young,
>University of North Carolina at Greensboro. A
>special thank you goes to Jane Darcovich,
>University of Illinois at Chicago, for her sound
>advice, her editing skills, and her time. We
>look forward to more IPR news in 2008.
>
>This is the last VRA-IPR News that I will submit
>from my position at the University of Minnesota,
>however I will continue to compile the VRA-IPR
>News from a yet-to-be-determined position in New
>England. Until that time, please submit any
>comments, questions, or suggestions to Jen Green
>at
><mailto:greenjennif at gmail.com>greenjennif at gmail.com.
>
>
>
>--
>Jen Green
>Assistant Curator
>Digital Collections + Archives
>College of Design
>University of Minnesota
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