Copyright News Links 08-16-08

mickey-mouse.pngIt was largely a week of celebration in the copyright world with a much-anticipated ruling coming down, word that the early Mickey Mouse cartoons may be in the public domain and the FCC holding Comcast’s feet to the fire.

However, there was a fair amount of bad news this week as well as the IFPI “three strikes” idea is gaining traction, Muxtape closes for mysterious reasons and a huge push is being made to spy on Internet traffic to look for copyright violations.

Remember, as usual, this week’s linkroll is a “raw” link list. Some stories are duplicated, some do not point to their original sources and some may not be accurate. A great deal of refining goes into producing the show notes for the Copyright 2.0 Show.

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I am sorry for the delay, but I just now had time to sit down and watch the video. There are a lot of things that I feel are missing from the discussion, such as moral rights and plagiarism issues and a harder look at how to deal with malicious people, not just users, but you make a lot of points that we've covered on the show and have also been talked about by Professor Lessig. Definitely a great video.

Further to this discussion, you may like my video on the Future of Copyright: http://gleonhard.blip.tv/file/1028802/#
About the Future of Copyright: 1) An actual distinction between ‘Copy’ vs ‘Performance’ of digital content no longer exists 2) Even if it did: the ‘Selling of Copies’ is no longer a growing business, or a sustainable model 3) The exclusive right to ‘make copies’ is becoming impossible to enforce 3) Criminalization of Sharing and Policing of Web-Access is not the kind of ‘Justice’ our society can afford 4)New Permissions & ‘Usage-Rights’ for Digital Music can and will solve this problem..

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