http://www.dantynan.com/2008/07/21/the-riaa-vs-the-mothers-of-prevention/ includes great mini-anecdotes and the full resolution to the “baby dancing to Prince song” fiasco.
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Great RIAA Post from Dan Tynan
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008Prince Snippet Stirs Fair Use Debate
Wednesday, April 30th, 2008The video of a 13-month old dancing to a Prince tune – 13 months, not a teenager – has opened the debate once again on what constitutes “Fair Use,” Mediapost reports.
Prince has been notorious for protecting his copyrights, but this is one video that couldn’t be a clearer example of when to leave well enough alone.
Whats your call?
Prince Snippet Stirs Fair Use DebateRIAA Sues Project Playlist
Wednesday, April 30th, 2008The Recording Industry Association of America has sued music search engine Project Playlist, claiming that the service infringes copyright by making it easy for users to find and play pirated tracks.
The company does not host files on its site, but rather provides a player that can be embedded on social networking sites.
RIAA Sues Project PlaylistMediaPost Paying Attention
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008Nice to see some traditional, mainstream media outlets covering the file sharing and bittorrent communities.
In the past week, Mediapost’s Wendy Davis has written about Pirate Bay’s new blogging platform as well as ISPs and their efforts to throttle bandwidth.
Thanks for putting some of these issues in front of a new audience. Too often, the coverage we see is biased and prejudiced against anyone who uses a lot of bandwidth – even for legal P2P applications, like Joost or Vuze.
MediaPost Paying AttentionDVD Jon Liberates Tunes from iTunes
Tuesday, February 19th, 2008More details to emerge, I’m sure, but this time DVD Jon, known for cracking the DVD copyright encryption, has cracked Apple’s DRM, enabling people to play their iTunes purchased music on non-Apple devices. San Francisco-based doubleTwist, co-founded by DVD Jon, is releasing the software.
Beyond computer-to-computer media-sharing, doubleTwist lets users synchronize media sitting on their computers to mobile devices they or their friends own, simply by “dragging and dropping” media files into a desktop folder that then drops copies of the media files onto the mobile devices over the Web.
This is similar functionality provided by Red Chair Software’s Anapod, which the Hobo’s Mom uses for dragging and dropping to her iPod. It also seems to mimic the functionality of Tunebite, which plays back songs in fast forward and re-records them as unprotected files.
While there appears to be little hope for DRM when users are determined to get around it, I still maintain that there is very little that people can’t do under “Fair Use” with DRM protected files.
DVD Jon Liberates Tunes from iTunesThe Hobo Argues for DRM on Mediapost
Wednesday, January 9th, 2008Check out The Hobo arguing FOR DRM on Mediapost.
The Hobo Argues for DRM on MediapostTorrentSpy.com Loses MPAA Battle
Tuesday, December 18th, 2007DigitalMediaWire reports that a federal judge in Los Angeles has ruled in favor of Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) member studios in their copyright infringement suits against TorrentSpy.com.
The judge also determined that TorrentSpy had destroyed evidence in the case and moved directly to the damages phase.
TorrentSpy.com Loses MPAA BattleBiz Wins Over Minn. Woman
Friday, October 5th, 2007In the first illegal downloading case to make it to court, the Biz won.
A jury found that Jammie Thomas infringed upon copyrights and awarded damages of $9,250 for each of the 24 recordings cited, for a total of $220,000.
Biz Wins Over Minn. WomanSoundExchange’s Sound Decision
Friday, July 13th, 2007According to Wired’s Elliot Van Buskirk, SoundExchange will not enforce the new online radio royalty rates when they officially kick in this weekend.
Read more at Wired’d blog.
SoundExchange’s Sound Decision