[MCN-L] IP SIG: Fwd: VRA Intellectual Property Rights News: July 2008
Diane M. Zorich
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>IPR-In the News
>Compiled by Jen Green, Massachusetts College of Art + Design
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>A Look Back at Canarsie, Clouded by Copyright Woes
>by Jake Mooney, New York Times, June 29, 2008
><http://tinyurl.com/4hkd48>http://tinyurl.com/4hkd48
>The photograph, in the archives of the Brooklyn
>Historical Society, showed a group of people
>having drinks at Whittaker's Hotel, a
>long-disappeared way station in Canarsie that
>once served travelers bound for the Rockaways.
>It was just what Brian Merlis, who publishes
>books of historical Brooklyn photographs, wanted.
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>Press Release: Leading Photo Associations Urge
>Congress to Amend Orphan Works Legislation
>Stock Artists Alliance, July 2008
><http://www.stockartistsalliance.org/node/371>http://www.stockartistsalliance.org/node/371
>A growing chorus of concern, even outrage, about
>the current Orphan Works legislation
>demonstrates the importance of this issue for
>most photographers and other visual artists.
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>Best Practices for Locating Copyright Owners of Photographic and Visual Art
>The American Society of Picture Professionals (ASPP), released in July 2008
>These guidelines can be found at:
><http://www.aspp.com/pages/257/189/0/>http://www.aspp.com/pages/257/189/0/
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>Campus Copyright Battle Moves to Textbook Torrents
>by John Timmer, ars technical, July 1, 2008
><http://tinyurl.com/3jb26p>http://tinyurl.com/3jb26p
>"The RIAA's extensive campaign against
>filesharing has drawn in a lot of individuals,
>but college campuses have remained a major
>target of the content owners' legal threats.
>It's pretty clear that there's significant
>expertise with filesharing on college campuses,
>so it shouldn't come as a surprise that this
>expertise has been put to use with other
>copyrighted materials. Textbook companies are
>getting worried about the sharing of their
>bread-and-butter online, and have started a
>campaign designed to block the sharing at its
>source."
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>Copyright Office Would Deny Key TV License to Internet
>by Ted Hearn, Multichannel News, July 1, 2008
><http://www.multichannel.com/article/CA6574635.html>http://www.multichannel.com/article/CA6574635.html
>In a report to Congress Monday, the U.S.
>Copyright Office said companies that intend to
>stream local TV signals over the Internet should
>be denied a key copyright license that cable
>operators use to distribute the same signals.
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>Blog: ZeroPaid: Canada - Bloc Leader Wants ISPs
>Liable for Copyright Infringement
>by Drew Wilson, July 7, 2008
><http://tinyurl.com/5vs4r3>http://tinyurl.com/5vs4r3
>"The copyright reform debate in Canada has a new
>twist - and it comes from the party that wants
>to separate Quebec from Canada. Bloc leader
>Gilles Duceppe answered a concerned Canadian's
>letter over bill C-61 with what his stance is."
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>Judge Suspends Recording-Industry Subpoena Served on N.C. University
>by Andrea Foster, Chronicle of Higher Education, July 7, 2008
><http://tinyurl.com/6ezyut>http://tinyurl.com/6ezyut
>A federal judge has become skeptical of tactics
>used by the recording industry to identify
>students at North Carolina State University
>suspected of swapping music online in violation
>of copyright law.
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>Press Release: Best Practices in Copyright and
>Fair Use for User-Generated Content Released
>by American University, PR Web, July 7, 2008
><http://tinyurl.com/5qyluf>http://tinyurl.com/5qyluf
>American University's Center for Social Media
>announces the release of a new code of best
>practices in fair use for creators in the
>burgeoning online video environment. The code,
>grounded in the practices of online video makers
>and in the law, was collaboratively created by a
>team of scholars and lawyers from leading
>universities. It was coordinated by American
>University professors Pat Aufderheide and Peter
>Jaszi.
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>Blog: ComputerWorld: Science 2.0 and Rights Protection
>by Martin McBrown, July 7, 2008'
><http://tinyurl.com/6p3caa>http://tinyurl.com/6p3caa
>"I was reading in Scientific American about how
>modern scientists and researchers are beginning
>to use web technologies, including blogs, wikis
>and social networks. So-called Science 2.0 is
>trying to take advantage of the same technology
>used by other groups to provide tools for
>sharing knowledge, research notes and
>experience. But not everybody is happy."
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>EU on Track for 95-year Copyright
>by Ben Cardew, MusicWeek, July 7, 2008
><http://tinyurl.com/5pcpp6>http://tinyurl.com/5pcpp6
>The music industry is confident that copyright
>term extension in Europe remains on track, with
>European Commissioner Charlie McCreevy's draft
>proposal to change the term of protection
>directive still likely to be delivered before
>the end of this month.
>See below articles: EU strikes the wrong note on
>copyright; Ageing Rockers May Lose Copyright
>Protection
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>Blog: Collectanea: The Commentary Sometimes Outstrips the Story
>by Georgia Harper, July 8, 2008
><http://tinyurl.com/62ej9x>http://tinyurl.com/62ej9x
>"Open Access business models are numerous.
>There's no magic path to OA. But some
>high-profile efforts have been around long
>enough to warrant analysis. So Declan Butler
>writes an article about PLoS (Public Library of
>Science), which he calls the 'poster child for
>open-access' that appears in Nature News,
>ironically not open to anyone who does not have
>a subscription."
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>Govt Will Stop Illegal Broadcasts during Games
>by Xie Chuanjiao, China Daily, July 8, 2008
><http://tinyurl.com/5spxog>http://tinyurl.com/5spxog
>Authorities are determined to prevent
>unauthorized companies and individuals from
>broadcasting Olympic events, an official from
>the National Copyright Administration of China
>(NCAC) said Monday. "No website, mobile phone
>platform or individual is permitted to transmit
>audio and video information regarding the
>Beijing Olympic Games or events within the
>mainland without a copyright or copyright
>holders' authorizations," Xu Chao, deputy
>director of the copyright management department
>of the NCAC, told a press conference in Beijing.
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>Blog: InfoWorld: Threads of Copyright Abuse
>by Ed Foster, July 8, 2008
><http://tinyurl.com/6ld68c>http://tinyurl.com/6ld68c
>"How far will copyright "protection"
>organizations go in threatening end users with
>highly questionable infringement claims? Far
>enough to claim that victims of counterfeiters
>are infringers themselves, as the continuing
>practices of the Embroidery Software Protection
>Coalition (ESPC) demonstrate."
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>Blog: TechDirt: Blaming The Flickr API For Copyright Infringement
>by Tom Lee, July 9, 2008
><http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20080708/0905171621.shtml>http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20080708/0905171621.shtml
>"The Fourth of July is over, but for some Flickr
>users the holiday's revolutionary spirit is
>still running strong. Apparently over the
>weekend a company called MyxerTones made
>Flickr's entire photographic catalog available
>for sale as cellphone wallpaper -- regardless of
>the license selected by each photo's owner."
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>Press Release: WIPO Workshop to Probe Copyright
>Issues Arising from the Preservation of Digital
>Content
>PressZoom, July 9, 2008
><http://presszoom.com/story_145255.html>http://presszoom.com/story_145255.html
>The World Intellectual Property Organization
>(WIPO) in cooperation with the International
>Digital Preservation and Copyright initiative
>(IDPC) is organizing a one-day workshop on July
>15, at WIPO's Geneva headquarters, to survey
>recent developments and trends at the
>intersection of digital preservation and
>copyright. The aim of the workshop is to
>contribute to the debate on how to develop and
>improve policies and practices that support the
>digital preservation of copyright-protected
>content.
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>Blog: Collectanea : And the Market Moves on...
>Past Fair Use? Past Licensing? Past Subscription?
>by Georgia Harper, July 10, 2008
><http://tinyurl.com/6fl2l9>http://tinyurl.com/6fl2l9
>"In an article in USA Today, Svetlana
>Shkolnikova describes the emerging trend towards
>faculty-authored "open textbooks" that hold out
>at least a glimmer of hope that there could be
>real competition in the textbook market that
>would have the effect of moderating prices."
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>Library of Congress: Laws Need Revision to Encourage Digital Preservation
>by Andrea Foster, The Chronicle of Higher
>Education: Wired Campus, July 14, 2008
><http://tinyurl.com/6gddjn>http://tinyurl.com/6gddjn
>Countries should change their laws and policies
>to encourage digital preservation of copyrighted
>works, according to a report released today by
>the Library of Congress. It drafted the report
>with organizations in Australia, Britain, and
>the Netherlands.
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>New Southern/East African Copyright Network
>Targets Protection, Local Innovation
>by Wagdy Sawahel, Intellectual Property Watch, July 15, 2008
><http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/index.php?p=1149>http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/index.php?p=1149
>Seventeen African ministers of arts and culture
>have officially launched the newly formed
>Southern and Eastern Africa Copyright Network
>(Seaconet) in a bid to strengthen regional
>collaboration and cooperation in the field of
>creative industries, copyright and related
>rights.
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>American Library Association Unveils Slide Rule for Copyright Advice
>by Andrea Foster, Chronicle of Higher Education: Wired Campus, July 17, 2008
><http://tinyurl.com/5mmkve>http://tinyurl.com/5mmkve
>For those who doubt the complexity of U.S.
>copyright law take a look at this online
>slide-rule from the American Library
>Association's Office for Information Technology
>Policy. It's designed to help librarians and
>others figure out if a creative work is
>copyright protected. The exceptions to the law,
>and the exceptions to the exceptions, are
>reminiscent of the nerve-wracking U.S. tax code.
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>EU Strikes the Wrong Note on Copyright
>by Dave Rowntree, <http://telegraph.co.uk/>Telegraph.co.uk, July 17, 2008
><http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/07/17/do1707.xml>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/07/17/do1707.xml
>Next week marks 50 years since Sir Cliff Richard
>recorded Move It, arguably the first British
>rock 'n' roll record. That landmark will also
>mean that Cliff's classic is no longer covered
>by copyright. However, yesterday the EU
>Commission backed a proposal to extend copyright
>on sound recordings from 50 years to 95. Dave
>Rowntree, the drummer with Blur, argues that the
>EU is making a mistake.
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>Ageing Rockers May Lose Copyright Protection
>The Independent, July 17, 2008
><http://tinyurl.com/5rl38a>http://tinyurl.com/5rl38a
>Plans to almost double copyright protection for
>recording artists were challenged by the
>Government this afternoon. The European
>Commission said musicians and performers should
>enjoy copyright safeguards for 95 years -
>instead of losing the rights to their own works
>after the current copyright expiry limit of 50
>years. But a UK spokesman said the Government
>was "not convinced" of the economic argument for
>the move.
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>Copyrights-and Wrongs
>by Sascha Segan, PC Magazine, July 18, 2008
><http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2325781,00.asp>http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2325781,00.asp
>Did you break the law today? If you've created
>something on the Internet, probably. Artists,
>librarians, tech geeks, and software engineers
>are now fighting over a miserably shrinking
>public domain. This isn't what copyright was
>supposed to be about, and only a popular
>uprising will stop the current trend.
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>Blog: Collectanea: A New Era in Defining and Applying Fair Use Norms
>by Georgia Harper, July 21, 2008
><http://tinyurl.com/6oy9x2>http://tinyurl.com/6oy9x2
>"About 12 years ago, I was involved in the CONFU
>effort to define, or rather, provide guidance
>for, fair uses in educational contexts in the
>then-emerging world of digital networks."
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>Government Copyright Bill Fails Green Test
>by Michael Geist, The Star, July 21, 2008
><http://www.thestar.com/sciencetech/article/463909>http://www.thestar.com/sciencetech/article/463909
>The notion of "green copyright" sounds odd, yet
>the policy choices found in Bill C-61, Industry
>Minister Jim Prentice's controversial copyright
>bill, disappointingly run directly counter to
>the current emphasis on the environment.
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>Blog: Deep Links: Senators Announce New Intellectual Property Enforcement Bill
>by Richard Esguerra, Electronic Frontier Foundation, July 29, 2008
><http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/07/library-congress-dmca-copyright>http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/07/library-congress-dmca-copyright
>Last week, members of the Senate Judiciary
>Committee introduced the "Enforcement of
>Intellectual Property Rights Act of 2008," a
>bill that proposes a number of alarming changes
>to copyright law. The bill is the Senate's gift
>to big content owners, creating new and powerful
>tools -- many of which will be paid for by your
>tax dollars -- for the entertainment industry to
>go after infringers. But it doesn't offer a lick
>of protection for legitimate innovators and
>technology users that may be buried by the
>copyright juggernaut.
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>Facebook Shuts off Scrabulous after Hasbro Sues
>from Bloomberg News, July 29, 2008
><http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-facebook30-2008jul30,0,6912273.story?track=rss>http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-facebook30-2008jul30,0,6912273.story?track=rss
>Facebook Inc., the owner of the biggest U.S.
>social-networking site, shut down the online
>word game Scrabulous in the U.S. and Canada
>after a lawsuit was filed by Hasbro Inc., the
>maker of Scrabble.
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>SueTube redux: Italian Broadcaster Targets YouTube
>by Jacqui Cheng, ars technical, July 30, 2008
><http://tinyurl.com/63bwt9>http://tinyurl.com/63bwt9
>YouTube is once again being targeted for
>widespread copyright infringement, except this
>time the lawsuit is originating from Europe.
>Italian broadcaster Mediaset SpA announced today
>that it was going after Google for at least ¤500
>million in damages, which translates to just
>over $750 million at today's exchange rates.
>Combine this with the $1 billion sought by
>Viacom, and YouTube is looking at the
>possibility of some serious legal liability.
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>Many thanks to all of our VRA-IPR members who
>are monitoring multiple listservs to make this
>IPR news posting possible. Please submit any
>comments, questions, or suggestions to Jen Green
>at
><mailto:jen.green at massart.edu>jen.green at massart.edu
>
>Jen Green
>Visual Resources Librarian
>Morton R. Godine Library
>Massachusetts College of Art and Design
>621 Huntington Avenue
>Boston, MA 02115
>617-879-7109
>jen.green at massart.edu
>
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