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Primer on Copyright Liability and Fair Use. A quick and dirty guide on copyright provided by the Citizen Media Law Project. Categories: Bundle of Rights; Fair Use & Other Exceptions.

Music Download Warning List. The Center for Democracy & Technology publishes a list of Web sites that promise lots of music, but deliver much less because the sites don’t have the proper licenses to offer the music to the public. Categories: Licensing & Permissions; Music; Web & Online

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The Library of Congress Photos. LoC gets social with a 3,000 image contribution to Flickr … and leaves it to the public to do the classifying.

On Copyright Reform. (.mp3) The Ottawa Citizen sponsors an hour-long debate on copyright reform in Canada. Lots of shouting and interrupting, but may be worthwhile listening if you want to hear frustrated content industry discuss the state of their nation. Check out, however, Michael Geist’s analysis of this session, in which he contends Canadian Recording Industry Association president Graham Henderson and others give tacit support to ISP filtering, which AT&T reportedly is considering. Categories: DRM & Copy Restrictions; International; Music; Politics & Government; Web & Online. (Attribution: ArsTechnica)

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Editor’s Note: Site Check is a special section that shares with our audience noteworthy Web sites or user-generated content. Previously, a part of our weekly Copycense Clippings coverage, Site Check now is a special section that appears on Thursdays.

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CD Liner Notes of the Distant Present. A hilarious parody of the RIAA’s business model, set out in the form of compact disc liner notes. Categories: Music; Politics & Government. (Attribution: Boing Boing)

I Can’t Stop Thinking #6. Comic and visualization guru Scott McLeod draws and talks about Napster, artists, and record buying economics … back in 2001. Six years later, it still remains relevant. Categories: Music.

RIAA Declares Using Brain to Remember Songs is Criminal Copyright Infringement. NewsTarget.com’s satirical treatment of the RIAA’s litigation campaign (albeit based upon the incorrect reporting that RIAA claimed ripping to CD is a copyright infringement). Categories: Broadcasting & Journalism; Cases & Litigation; File Sharing, P2P & Downloads; Music. (Attribution: Bambi Musings)

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Editor’s Note: Site Check is a special section that shares with our audience noteworthy Web sites or user-generated content. Previously, a part of our weekly Copycense Clippings coverage, Site Check now is a special section that appears on Thursdays.

If you have or can recommend a Web site, online project, podcast, screencast, or video you feel is a noteworthy contribution to the public debate about creativity, code, and content, please let us know. We gladly will attribute all contributions, so when sending in a Site, please include your name (or screen name).

The Promise of a Post-Copyright World. Again, we feature the work of QuestionCopyright.org, which provides an interesting historical perspective on industry attempts to induce a copyright choke hold. Categories: Bundle of Rights; File Sharing, P2P & Downloads; International.

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Editor’s Note: Site Check is a special section that shares with our audience noteworthy Web sites or user-generated content. Previously, a part of our weekly Copycense Clippings coverage, Site Check now is a special section that appears on Thursdays.

If you have or can recommend a Web site, online project, podcast, screencast, or video you feel is a noteworthy contribution to the public debate about creativity, code, and content, please let us know. We gladly will attribute all contributions, so when sending in a Site, please include your name (or screen name).

The Public’s Perception of Copyright. Karl Fogel of goes around Chicago in summer 2006 and asks the rank and file what they think about copyright. This core question would make an interesting survey study. Categories: Bundle of Rights; Research. (Attribution: The Patry Copyright Blog)

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Editor’s Note: Site Check is a special section that shares with our audience noteworthy Web sites or user-generated content. Previously, a part of our weekly Copycense Clippings coverage, Site Check now is a special section that appears on Thursdays.

If you have or can recommend a Web site, online project, podcast, screencast, or video you feel is a noteworthy contribution to the public debate about creativity, code, and content, please let us know. We gladly will attribute all contributions, so when sending in a Site, please include your name (or screen name).

Copyright Crash Course. The University of Texas redesigns its comprehensive Copyright Crash Course to a brighter, more colorful design, but possibly at the expense of online readability or accessibility. Categories: Libraries & Information Science; Research. (Attribution: Sivacracy)

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Editor’s Note: Site Check is a special section that shares with our audience noteworthy Web sites or user-generated content. Previously, a part of our weekly Copycense Clippings coverage, Site Check now is a special section that appears on Thursdays.

If you have or can recommend a Web site, online project, podcast, screencast, or video you feel is a noteworthy contribution to the public debate about creativity, code, and content, please let us know. We gladly will attribute all contributions, so when sending in a Site, please include your name (or screen name).

Copyright Law of the United States (Circular 92). The most recent complete online edition of America’s copyright law (17 U.S.C. sec. 101, et seq.) includes all statutory amendments through the 109th Congress in 2006.

TED. Larry Lessig: How Creativity Is Being Strangled By the Law. November 2007. Despite his professed retirement from the IP hustle (see also below), Stanford law professor Lawrence Lessig clearly and succinctly summarizes the pressing legal and societal problems that occur when law shackles creativity. Categories: Bundle of Rights; Fair Use & Other Exceptions; Remixes & Derivative Works. (Attribution: Carol Schwartz)

Lessig.org. Corruption Lecture – alpha version. Oct. 14, 2007. Lessig’s first foray into the world of “corruption.”

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