Copyright 2.0 Show – Episode 109

By Jonathan Bailey • May 4th, 2009 • Category: Podcast

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It is Monday again and that means that it is time for another episode of the Copyright 2.0 Show.

It was a busy week for copyright news with so many things going on that a lot of very good stories had to be cut out. However, this week’s show has a very decisive foreign flavor with several updates on “three strikes” laws from around the world, a new lawsuit against Apple over circumvention and one very interesting content license.

All in all, there were eleven stories this week including news from all over the copyright world including our “Weird Story of the Week”.

This week’s stories include:

  • EFF To Take on Apple Over Circumvention
  • New Zealand to Scrap Their Copyright Law and Start Over
  • MGMT Wins Big in France
  • RapidShare Rats Out Pirates
  • The License You Can’t Say on the Radio
  • And Many more…

You can download the MP3 file here (direct download). Those interested in subscribing to the show can do so via this feed.

Show Notes

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Jonathan Bailey is The Webmaster and author of Plagiarism Today, which he founded in 2005 as a way to help Webmasters going through content theft problems get accurate information and stay up to date on the rapidly-changing field. He is also a consultant to Webmasters and companies to help them devise practical content protection strategies and develop good copyright policies.
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  • Eo Nomine
    I'm a long-time listener, first time caller :)
    FYI, the story about New Zealand ceasing all amendments to its Copyright Act and engaging in a total re-vamp has been determined to be inaccurate: http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/593AE7...
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  • Thanks for the link. This one is really frustrating as it broke mid-way through the week, was repeated counlessly and even this morning was seemingly authentic. I'm stunned it took nearly a week for this to come out. It sounds to me as if there is (or at least was) some kind of disagreement about what is going on.

    On that note, I'll take my lumps. I've bookmarked it for the next show and it will be in tomorrow's three count. If you want a hat tip, let me know what site to point it to!
  • Eo Nomine
    If it helps, you certainly weren't the only one. While some enterprising twitterers confirmed with NZ lobbyists and the NZ gov't that the NBR story was inaccurate last Thursday (eg http://twitter.com/nzlemming/status/1665677557, http://twitter.com/lawgeeknz/status/1665699384), others kept missing this and reporting it as true (http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090430/14000...) and even speculating as to what the new law should cover (http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/05... made me wonder whether the reports of inaccuracy were themselves inaccurate. Chalk it up to yet another instance of a meme surviving in the blogosphere even after it's been refuted...
    Thanks for the offer, but no need for a hat tip...just keep up the great work! :)
  • I appreciate that. It doesn't help but it doesn' thurt. Part of the problem is that I am pretty sure someone with some authority said, at some point, that the were going to scrap the law. These situations get confusing and, like you pointed out, it can appear that the stories reporting the inaccuracy are the ones in the wrong.

    It's the nature of the Web, it's embarrassing to get caught up in, but it does happen. More often than usual these days it seems...
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