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YouTube - A Fair(y) Use Tale

Not made by me,found it online,available for download on websiteDisney Parody explanation of Copyright Law and Fair UseSynopsis:Professor Eric Faden of Buckn...
Professor Eric Faden of Bucknell University provides this humorous, yet informative, review of copyright principles delivered through the words of the very folks (Disney) we can thank for nearly endless copyright terms. View the whole film here.
In an effort to change the rules of the music industry, YouLicense enables artists and those seeking musical content to conduct business directly without the need to deal with music companies.
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It may be your space. But if it's not your content, MySpace doesn't want anything to do with it. News Corp.'s social networking site announced Friday that it's launching Take Down Stay Down, a program designed to filter videos uploaded by users for copyrighted materials.
Rep. Jay Inslee (D-WA) and Rep. Don Manzullo (R-IL) have headed the "Internet Radio Equality Act," which aims to stop the controversial March 2 Copyright Royalty Board decision which puts a royalty of .08 cent per song per listener, retroactively from 2006 to 2010 on internet radio.
Pandora's founder, Tim Westergren, appealed for public support this week in response to the US Copyright Royalty Board's decision for a whopping 140% escalation in internet radio royalty fees. Such news brings back a bitter taste from the days of ubiquitous filesharing and the mixed signals aired by a struggling record industry.
In a potential blow to Internet radio services, a federal copyright panel on Monday largely upheld a contentious decision that would elevate royalty fees Webcasters must pay to record labels.
The Washington-based trade association on Monday said it planned to bestow its first-ever Anti-Piracy Leadership Award upon Jay Prahbu, a trial attorney since 2002 with the U.S. Department of Justice's computer crime and intellectual property section
Scribd is becoming very well known as the YouTube for documents and presentations, but in some ways that may not be a good thing. They have thousands of user-generated content on the site and 4.2 million views on their documents. They also have countless copyrighted works that are freely available for you to view or even download...and they aren't
The Bush administration announced Monday it is filing two new trade cases against China over copyright piracy and restrictions on the sale of American movies, music and books there.
YouTube is clearly the most popular video sharing site on the web. But limits on video length, DMCA takedown notices and billion dollar lawsuits have damaged YouTube's ability to facilitate serious copyright infringement. The smaller guys are now stepping in to fill the void.
In the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Congress struck a careful balance between the rights of the copyright holder and the need to protect the Internet as an innovative communication frontier, not as another venue for litigation
While the copyright should have expired in 1991, copyright has been extended repeatedly over the last quarter of the twentieth century and the copyright for Happy Birthday is now not due to expire until at least 2030.
Microsoft on Tuesday launches a fierce attack on Google over its "cavalier" approach to copyright, accusing the internet company of exploiting books, music, films and television programmes without permission.
The US Copyright Office has released their new set of rates for the payment of royalties by Internet Radio, and they ignored all of the facts presented by webcasters and gave the record industry exactly what they asked for: royalty rates so high that they will put and every independent webcaster out of business.
Examples of when DRM itself renders perfectly legal actions illegal and the issues it then causes.
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Some of the world's leading indie labels have joined forces to create Merlin, a non-profit worldwide one stop shop for their digital music licenses. The goal is to end the "poor cousin" status of deals offered to independent labels and the "growing assumption that, only the four majors need to be licensed.









