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French Court Rejects Google's "Drink Me" Defenses
An excellent piece on the latest Google Books debacle in France:"Google argued that based on Article 5.2 Tags: creepy google book of the Berne Convention, the American legal principle of 'fair use' should apply. The French court did not accept the argument, holding that the law applicable to complex crimes committed on the internet was that of the state on whose territory the conduct at issue occurred."Ah--now
Music Technology Policy - Wednesday, March 3, 2010
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Information as IP
This paper is a draft chapter from a forthcoming book on copyright law in the digital environment. Zohar Efroni, Stanford Center for Internet and Society, has published "Information as IP Subject Matter." Here is the abstract. This chapter (Draft Chapte
Media Law Prof Blog - Wednesday, March 3, 2010
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Music Makers Mixer at NX35 March 11; Denton Texas
Music Makers Mixers are held several times a year around the Denton/Dallas/Fort Worth area as networking opportunities for music biz professionals including artists, producers, engineers, songwriters, attorneys, accountants, managers, booking agents and members of The Recording Academy® Texas Chapter (the “Grammy®” folks). Hosted by The Recording Academy® Texas Chapter Board Members March
Current Trends - Monday, March 1, 2010
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  • Jury finds libel in fictional character
    Tags: Books Decisions Roundup Defamation Litigatio By Eriq Gardner Last year, we wrote about attorney Ravi Batra, who convinced the New York Supreme Court not to dismiss a "libel-in-fiction" defamation claim against the TV show "Law & Order" over a corrupt fictional character. Now comes word... ...Tags:
    THR, Esq. Entertainment & Media Law Blog - Friday, November 20, 2009
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  • William Morris Endeavor: Opt out of Google Books Settlement
    Not surprisingly, the William Morris Endeavor talent agency has advised its clients--twice--to opt out of the Google Books settlement: "There is an important right that is relinquished under the terms of the Settlement that the Authors Guild does not adequately address. Tags: creepy google books william morris endeavor google books settlement creepy eric schmid In addition to waiving their right to sue Google for infringement, they waive, again for the term of copyright, their right to have Google remove their work from its database if they haven! t
    Music Technology Policy - Friday, August 21, 2009
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  • Alert from the National Music Publishers Association regarding sheet music and the Google Books Settlement
    The Google Books settlement (which is currently being investigated by the Department of Justice, among other people) clearly includes sheet music. and see Music Publishing and the Google Books Settlement and Why Music Publishers and their Licensees Should Care About the Google Books Settlement The National Music Publishers Association and the Harry Fox Agency sent an alert to their members informing them of what to do that is an excellent summary of the truly bizarre situation that Google has created for songwriters and publishers around the world and is well worth reading.
    Music Technology Policy - Sunday, May 3, 2009
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  • Google Book Search and Contractual Voodoo
    Let's say that you have a good idea for an internet application, but it would involve infringing millions of copyrights. You'd like to negotiate a deal, but there are hundreds of thousands of people with whom you'd have to negotiate.... ...Tags: Tags: Copyrigh
    Pixelization - Sunday, May 31, 2009
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  • Why Hollywood should care about the Google book settlement
    By Eriq Gardner We wonder if Hollywood lawyers should be paying more attention to the fate of a controversial settlement between Google, book publishers, and authors. Last October, the parties announced they had agreed to settle a major class action... ...Tags: Tags: Copyright Dealmaking IP/Tec
    THR, Esq. Entertainment & Media Law Blog - Monday, May 4, 2009
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  • On the Google Book Search Settlement
    Picker, University of Chicago Law School, has published The Google Book Search Settlement: A New Orphan-Works Monopoly? Randal C. as U of Chicago Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 462. Here is the abstract.
    Media Law Prof Blog - Monday, May 4, 2009
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  • Conflict Search
    Tags: creepy google books creepy monopsonist eric schmidt conflict searc I ran into an friend of mine who was an old radio promotion executive and got to talking about how the business had changed. His old job essentially was to introduce fans to new music and somehow get them to buy. Mostly his job was staying one step ahead of the FCC on payola in all its many varied forms as he
    Music Technology Policy - Monday, January 4, 2010
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  • Professor's Book On Danish Cartoons Debate Will Not Include Reproductions of Cartoons
    Brandeis professor Jytte Klausen's forthcoming book on the 12 Danish cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed that caused a worldwide debate will contain a scholarly discussion of the debate. But it will not contain reproductions of the cartoons. Based on th
    Media Law Prof Blog - Thursday, August 13, 2009
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  • New Yorker Review of the Chris Anderson/Wikipedia Book "Free"
    An excellent review of Free by Chris Anderson/ Wikipedia by Malcolm Gladwell in the New Yorker. I have always thought of the New Yorker as someone who can separate the tech from the dirt quite handily. I particularly enjoyed this passage about my favorite catastrophe--YouTube: "For Anderson, YouTube illustrates the principle that Free removes the necessity of aesthetic judgment.
    Music Technology Policy - Thursday, July 2, 2009
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  • Fans, Friends & Followers: Playbook for the Social Media Age
    So the author of 2007's The Future of Web Video and 2008's Inventing the Movies decided that he had to self-publish his newest book, Fans, Friends and Followers . "If They sent him back galleys to correct and within 10 days of signing off, he had books on sale at Amazon , and collects a bigger percentage of royalties than a publisher would pay. "If For the book, which has sold more than 10,000 copies, Cinematech blogger Scott Kirsner drank the digital Kool-aid some time back. If I was writing that artists had to be their own entrepreneur," he says, "then I had to do
    Thompson On Hollywood - Tuesday, June 9, 2009
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