Archive for October 2005
Quote of the Day
“Hiring lawyers is easier than innovating.”
— Michael K. Powell, former chairman of the Federal Communications Commission at the Web 2.0 conference.
Alorie Gilbert. iTunes for Video? Don’t Hold Your Breath. News.com. Oct. 6, 2005.
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Siva on Open Source
“The Open Source model of peer production, sharing, revision, and peer review has distilled and labeled the most successful human creative habits into a techno-political movement. This distillation has had costs and benefits. It has been difficult to court mainstream acceptance for such a tangle of seemingly technical ideas when its chief advocates have been hackers and academics.
“On the other hand, the brilliant success of overtly labeled Open Source experiments, coupled with the horror stories of attempts to protect the proprietary model of cultural production have served to popularize the ideas championed by the movement. Rather than being revolutionary, this movement is quite conservatively recapturing and revalorizing the basic human communicative and cultural processes that have generated many good things.”
Siva Vaidhyanathan. Open Source as Culture – Culture as Open Source. (.pdf) Open Source Jahrbuch. No date.
Record Labels Seek to Control Satellite Airways
“The record industry may next aim its legal guns at satellite radio due to a dispute involving new portable players which let listeners record and store songs, an analyst and industry sources said on Wednesday.
“The record industry, led by major labels, such as Vivendi Universal, Warner Music Group Corp, EMI Group Plc and Sony BMG, believe the recording capability is a clear copyright violation and could take revenue away from paid download music services.”
Reuters. Record Labels, Satellite Radio Seen in Showdown. Yahoo! News. Oct. 5, 2005.
See also:
Engadget. Sirius’s S50 Wearable Satellite Radio. Aug. 25, 2005.
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Google Opens D.C. Lobby Office
"Google hired its first lobbyist
in Washington, D.C., the search engine said Thursday, as the Internet
seeks a voice in the capitol with the U.S. government increasingly
playing a role in shaping online policy.
"For its advocate job, Google appointed Alan Davidson, associate director of the nonprofit civil liberties group the Center for Democracy and Technology."
Red Herring. Mr. Google Goes to Washington. Oct. 6, 2005.
See also:
Google Blog. Google Goes to Washington. Oct. 6, 2005.
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Artists Encourage Cheating
“Major labels Sony BMG and EMI are releasing more and more new CDs that block fans from dragging their tunes to iPods.
“Now, in the most bizarre turn yet in the record industry’s piracy struggles, the Dave Matthews Band, the Foo Fighters and Switchfoot – and even Sony BMG, when the label gets complaints – are telling fans how they can beat the system.”
Brian Garrity. Frustrated Artists Show Fans a Few Copying Tricks. RockyMountainNews.com. Oct. 5, 2005.
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Movie Studios Move Online
“The film industry is working to launch online movie download services to avoid the same fate as the piracy-ridden music industry, NBC Universal Chief Executive Bob Wright said Tuesday.
Wright was speaking at the launch of an antipiracy and counterfeiting initiative with senior executives from media, software, pharmaceutical and food industries known as “Business Action to Stop Counterfeiting and Piracy.”
Reuters. Studios to Move Online to Beat Pirates. News.com. Oct. 4, 2005.
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Cities Protect Copyright in Subway Maps
“Transit officials in New York and San Francisco have launched a copyright crackdown on a website offering free downloadable subway maps designed to be viewed on the iPod.
“IPodSubwayMaps.com is the home of iPod-sized maps of nearly two dozen different transit systems around the world, from the Paris Metro to the London Underground.”
Matt Reed. IPod Maps Draw Legal Threats. Wired News. Sept. 26, 2005.
Updates:
The Patry Copyright Blog. Subway Maps and Copyright. Sept. 27, 3005.
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