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Copyright 2.0 Show – Episode 139

By Jonathan Bailey • Feb 5th, 2010 • Category: Podcast

It is Monday Friday again and that means that it is time for another episode of the Copyright 2.0 Show.
That’s right, for this week, and likely from here on out, the show will be going up on Friday rather than Monday. With the new recording time, Wednesdays at 6:00 PM ET, which you can now [...]



3 Count: The Boss

By Jonathan Bailey • Feb 5th, 2010 • Category: 3 Count

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1: Justice Dept to Google Books: Close, But No Cigar
First off today the Department of Justice has finally made its opinion of the revised Google Book Search settlement known and, though it found a lot of improvements in the revised deal, it still [...]



Are Aggregators Really The Problem?

By Jonathan Bailey • Feb 4th, 2010 • Category: Articles

Mark Cuban recently called aggregators vampires. But are aggregators really the problem?



3 Count: Down Under 3x

By Jonathan Bailey • Feb 4th, 2010 • Category: 3 Count

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1: iiNet Slays Hollywood in Landmark Piracy Case
First off today, Australian ISP iiNet has won their battle with Hollywood studios over their alleged liability for copyright infringement by its subscribers. The studios had sued the ISP in one of the most bizarre legal [...]



Stopping Self Content Theft

By Jonathan Bailey • Feb 3rd, 2010 • Category: Articles

Though we should always be diligent with monitoring how others use our content, we should be equally carefully about how how use our own work.



3 Count: Big Screen

By Jonathan Bailey • Feb 2nd, 2010 • Category: 3 Count

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1: Will Your Big-Screen Super Bowl Party Violate Copyright Law?
First off today, Ars Technica has a great examination of the myth that showing the Super Bowl on an ultra-large TV, greater than 55 inches, may be a violation of copyright law. The conclusion [...]



Copyright 2.0 Show – Episode 138

By Jonathan Bailey • Feb 1st, 2010 • Category: Podcast

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 as we have a major revelation in the Jammie Thomas case, news about a criminal investigation against Shepard Fairey and a $32 million judgement against two Web hosts who [...]



3 Count: 2010 Census

By Jonathan Bailey • Feb 1st, 2010 • Category: 3 Count

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1: Class Action vs. Record Labels Over Peer-to-Peer Suits Hanging Bby a Thread
First off today, the lawsuit Andersen v. Atlantic Recording Corp, which saw a wrongly accused file sharer attempt to start a class action suit against the record labels for their legal [...]



3 Count: Who Dat!

By Jonathan Bailey • Jan 29th, 2010 • Category: 3 Count

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1: BPI Condemns Copyright Cash Demands
First off today, the British Phonographic Industry, a trade group representing British labels, is distancing itself from the controversial law from ACS:Law, which is famous for obtaining limited rights to works in order to send out threatening letters [...]



Google Reader Now For Non-RSS Sites

By Jonathan Bailey • Jan 28th, 2010 • Category: Articles, News

Google has launched a new feature for Google Reader that lets users “subscribe” to pages even without an RSS feed.