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Tech Buzz In honor of SOPA Blackout Day, we’ve made transparencies for RIAA Vice President Jonathan Lamy and MPAA Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Chris Dodd. We want to see where Buzzfeeders want to put them. Remix away everybody!
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Saturday Night Live is facing allegations it stole material for two sketches, including an Emmy Award-nominated short. Hold up, hold up. SNL gets nominated for Emmys?
While this may sound boring, it's actually strangely compelling and incredibly informative. Due in part, perhaps, to the awesome typography? (via reddit.com)
Culture Buzz Paul Mutant's painting is intended to be commentary on the incoherent absurdity of territorial rights enforcement in the age of the Internet. (Via)
Noam Galai’s photography was stolen and duplicated hundreds of times for years without his knowledge. This is his story.
http://techland.time.com/2011/02/09/law-firm-finds-succes...
Righthaven might not be a household name, but you'll soon learn to hate them.
Music Buzz I mean, apart from the fact that most pop songs kind of sound the same. But these are all cases where one or other of the parties ended up having to face the consequences somehow (often in court). The good news is that a bunch of these are pretty fantastic songs, so the whole process here shouldn't be too unpleasant.
http://balkin.blogspot.com/2010/06/copyright-elephant-in-...
The fictional high school chorus at the center of Fox’s Glee has a huge problem — nearly a million dollars in potential legal liability. For a show that regularly tackles thorny issues like teen pregnancy and alcohol abuse, it’s surprising that a million dollars worth of lawbreaking would go unmentioned. But it does, and week after week, those zany Glee kids rack up the potential to pay higher and higher fines.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/jun/01/digital-...
Disconnecting downloaders will alienate the entertainment industry's most loyal customers. With the passage into law of the dread Digital Economy Act comes Ofcom's guidelines that are the first step toward rules for when and how rightsholders will be able to disconnect entire families from the internet because someone on or near their premises is accused of copyright infringement.
http://flavorwire.com/89688/what-the-death-of-the-music-i...
When The Atlantic magazine claimed free music is damaging culture, we dug deeper and found what the sound of the dying industry really is.
Inevitably, Hitler weighs in on Constantin studios' removal of all of the wonderful Downfall parodies from YouTube. To carry this metaphor a bit further, it shouldn't be too long before lawyers for the entertainment industry find themselves holed up in a bunker with nothing but a revolver and their shattered dreams for company. (Fingers crossed.) Via @rcbth.
Tech Buzz Youtube bared its teeth today at Viacom, the media giant who has an ongoing $1 billion lawsuit on against them. They charge that even as Viacom was making their threats, they had hired multiple marketing agencies to “rough up” videos of shows like The Daily Show and The Colbert Report and post them to the site from Kinko's computers. It's a cyberdrama!
…Ok, Fresh-N-Fast Is Pretty Much Just In-N-Out. Fresh-N-Fast is NYC's answer to In-N-Out, with the same look, menu, and feel, but they have one thing that In-N-Out doesn't: A copyright lawsuit to deal with.
The guy who wrote this email has a few things to learn about how the Internet works. But at least, he's right: Small businesses like his never get respect….
Tech Buzz The founders of the Pirate Bay are twittering their copyright trial, and so far things are all going their way. The searching for the hashtag #spectrial (spectacle + trial) will keep you up-to-date on what's happening in the courtroom, though news outlets are covering the trial closely, too. The Pirate Bay is being charged with violating Swedish copyright laws by providing torrents of copyrighted material and making money of ads that run on their pages.
http://mashable.com/2009/01/15/youtube-video-muting/
YouTube has already started muting videos containing copyrighted materials. What does this mean for the Internet?!! Mashable runs through the horrors to-come if this continues. PLEASE, by God, save the lipdubs!
http://www.penny-lane.com/sk/Colclough%20-%20Please%20Do%...
So last night Stephen Colbert talked to Lawrence Lessig about his book “Remix,” about the future of copyright law. And he said he would be very angry if anyone remixed the interview, and because Stephen Colbert's word is law, obviously somebody did remix the interview. Fun! The original un-remixed interview is pretty entertaining as well.
Tech Buzz Keeping track of videos pulled from YouTube for copyright claims. YouTomb, from the MIT Free Culture student group, tracks hundreds of thousands of videos on YouTube, and every time one is removed for copyright claims, the site creates a post that includes a screenshot, description, inofrmation on how long it was available and the party that asked that it be pulled down. So far, TV TOKYO, Viacom, Warner Bros, and World Wrestling Entertainment are the groups most often using the takedown notice.
At a town hall style meeting in Portland, Maine today a woman…
