Archive for the ‘Web & Online’ Category
Kahle Loses Copyright Term Limit Lawsuit
"A lawsuit brought by a group of Internet archivists against recent congressional actions expanding copyright protections has been dismissed by a federal judge.
"The case was led by Net pioneer Brewster Kahle, whose most recent Internet Archive project aims to make a huge digital archive of Web sites and other media. The court’s ruling, issued late last week, marks another setback for a movement of activists and scholars against expanding legal protections for artistic works.
"The court relied primarily on last year’s Supreme Court ruling (.pdf) that said Congress had the power to extend the term of copyright."
John Borland. Court Nixes Lawsuit Fighting Copyright Law. News.com. Nov. 24, 2004.
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Rip & Burn Made Legal
"While the music industry attempts to shutter peer-to-peer services in court and in Congress, one company is using P2P networks to promote and pay artists.
"Shared Media Licensing, based in Seattle, offers Weed, a software program that allows interested music fans to download a song and play it three times for free. They are prompted to pay for the ‘Weed file’ the fourth time. Songs cost about a dollar and can be burned to an unlimited number of CDs, passed around on file-sharing networks and posted to web pages."
Katie Dean. File Sharing Growing Like a Weed. Wired News. Nov. 22, 2004.
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Rip & Burn Made Legal
"While the music industry attempts to shutter peer-to-peer services in court and in Congress, one company is using P2P networks to promote and pay artists.
"Shared Media Licensing, based in Seattle, offers Weed, a software program that allows interested music fans to download a song and play it three times for free. They are prompted to pay for the ‘Weed file’ the fourth time. Songs cost about a dollar and can be burned to an unlimited number of CDs, passed around on file-sharing networks and posted to web pages."
Katie Dean. File Sharing Growing Like a Weed. Wired News. Nov. 22, 2004.
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Judge Allows Internet Archive Snapshots as Evidence
"Magistrate Judge Arlander Keys, in the Northern District of Illinois, ruled that ‘snapshots’ taken by the Internet Archive that depict web pages as they appeared in the past are admissible under the Federal Rules of Evidence.
"The court rejected the arguments of plaintiff Telewizja Polska USA that the archived pages constituted hearsay and that the Internet Archive was an ‘unreliable source.’
"He also noted that, since Polska was seeking to suppress evidence of its own previous statements, the snapshots would not be barred even if they were hearsay."
No author. Internet Archive’s Web Page Snapshots Held Admissible as Evidence.
Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society. Vol 2, No.3.
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Wilco Speaks on P2P Music Sharing
"Giving away an album online isn’t the way most artists end up with gold records. But it worked out that way for Wilco.
After being dropped from Reprise Records in 2001 over creative conflicts surrounding Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, the Chicago-based band committed what some thought would be suicide — they streamed it online for free.
"By conventional industry logic, file sharing hurts the odds for commercial success. Wilco front man Jeff Tweedy disagrees. Wired News caught up with him during his current tour to find out just what makes Wilco so wired."
Xeni Jardin. ‘Music Is Not a Loaf of Bread’. Wired News. Nov. 15, 2004.
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Old Newspapers to be Available Online
"The government promises anyone with a computer will have access within a few years to millions of pages from old newspapers, a slice of American history to be viewed now only by visiting local libraries, newspaper offices or the nation’s capital.
"The first of what’s expected to be 30 million digitized pages from papers published from 1836 through 1922 will be available in 2006.
"Bruce Cole, chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, said the National Digital Newspaper Program is to further the founding fathers’ belief that knowledge of history was a necessity for government by the people."
Carl Hartman. U.S. Vows 30M Newspaper Pages To Go On Net. Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Nov. 16, 2004.
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Creative Commons Ventures Into Science
"Creative Commons, a nonprofit group aimed at carving out ways to share creative works, is expanding from the realm of copyright into patents and scientific publishing.
"The group’s move into the scientific sphere could help add new weight to growing criticisms that the current patent process has become too inflexible and often awards too much protection to ideas that aren’t genuinely unique.
"This criticism has been particularly prevalent in computer circles, where companies own patents and have sought wide-ranging licenses on basic Internet features, such as streaming audio and video or launching applications inside Web browsers."
John Borland. Copyright-Sharing Group Delves Into Science. News.com. Nov. 10, 2004.
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