EFF Schedules P2P Litigation Summit
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is co-sponsoring the First Annual P2P Litigation Summit, to be held on Thursday, November 3rd, 2005, at Northwestern University School of Law in Chicago, Illinois.
The daylong conference brings together public and private defense attorneys, clients, investigators, advocates, and academics to discuss the latest developments in peer-to-peer litigation.
- How do the RIAA and MPAA go about identifying plaintiffs?
- What are the most effective legal strategies and tactics?
- Is it better to settle immediately, or fight it out in the courts?
- How is this impacting the individuals sued? What is the role of ISPs in this quagmire?
- Should Congress step in and, if so, what legislation is needed?
- Are there other ways to compensate authors for their works?
First Annual P2P Litigation Summit
Chicago, Illinois
Thursday, November 03, 2005
Northwestern University School of Law
Lincoln Hall
357 East Chicago Avenue
Chicago, IL 60611
Contact: Katherine Mudd
Phone: (773) 588-5410
Email: katherine@redmonarch.com
For more information, see EFF’s sign up form.
Author Defends Google Library Project
“Google’s plan to create an index of millions of books has got them into legal trouble, but technology analyst Bill Thompson thinks they should press on despite the lawsuits.”
BBC News. Defending Google’s Licence to Print. Oct. 10, 2005.
See also:
CopyCense. Google Shouldn’t Punt on Litigation. Oct. 4, 2005.
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Court Rejects BlackBerry Patent Appeal
"A court decision Friday renewed the possibility that service to BlackBerry wireless e-mail devices might be cut off for most users in the United States.
"The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington rejected a request by Research in Motion, the Canadian company that makes the BlackBerry, to rehear its appeal of a patent infringement case brought by NTP Inc., the patent holder. A three-judge panel of the court ruled in August that Research in Motion had violated seven of NTP’s patents."
Ian Austen. Court Ruling in BlackBerry Case Puts Service to U.S. Users at Risk. The New York Times. Oct. 8, 2005.
Update: Red Herring. RIM BlackBerry Threatened. Oct. 10, 2005.
(Editor’s Note: The Times allows free access to their stories on the Web for seven days before sending the stories to the paper’s fee-based Archive.)
CopyCense™: K. Matthew Dames on the intersection of business, law and technology. A business venture of Seso Digital LLC.
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.
CopyCense™: K. Matthew Dames on the intersection of business, law and technology. A business venture of Seso Digital LLC.
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.
CopyCense™: K. Matthew Dames on the intersection of business, law and technology. A business venture of Seso Digital LLC.
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