The US Copyright Office is publicly soliciting comments to help them understand how DCMA interferes with fair use. They are accepting comments through Feb. 2, although they state that they are looking for comments that provide additional facts beyond the ones already accepted. There may still be an opportunity to have professors, librarians, and administrators [...]
The Spring Agenda
Thursday, 12. 29. 2005 – Category: Events & Recaps, General, News
Hey all, I hope everyone is having a great holiday season, whether reveling in the embraces of your long-missed family members, or carefully avoiding them until they return your car keys and let you drive back to your “real home”. Now let me tell you, Free Culture @ NYU has not spent its winter break [...]
The debate about the status of Google’s BookSearch Project (fair use or infringement?) is still raging. Lessig’s blog has a great comment string discussing the various positions, both moral and juridical that can be taken on this case. Siva Vaidhyanathan, who is offering a class this Spring called Copyright, Commerce, and Culture (E59.1405, call # [...]
Premature Victory Declaration?
Thursday, 12. 1. 2005 – Category: General, Links, Meta, News
Mark Russinovich, the blogger who first publicly disclosed the Sony Rootkit, has written a new post summarizing the current state of affairs. Even though Sony officially recalled the infected discs two weeks ago, there are reports that Sony hasn’t properly been notifying stores about the recall, and many stores still have the discs on the [...]
USA Today Article, Minutes
“What if the web were created today?” A scary thought.
Hollywood tunes into anti-piracy audio signals
Wednesday, 11. 2. 2005 – Category: General, Media, Meta, News
Here’s something a little different…Hollywood is planning to push for film distributors to embed an inaudible watermark in the soundtracks of films released to theaters. Then, if approved by the DVD Forum, HD DVD players would be required to have a special sensor that listens for the watermark and refuses playback if it is found, [...]
Here is the detailed article about the new DRM Sony is using that I talked about at last night’s meeting: Sony, Rootkits and Digital Rights Management Gone Too Far For those that weren’t there, it’s about this new DRM software which uses a poorly-designed rootkit to completely mask its presence on your system. Not only [...]
Pics from DRM Protest
Friday, 10. 28. 2005 – Category: Events & Recaps, General, News, Photos
Well the DRM protest was a smashing success. We had plenty of people, from Free Culture @ NYU and other groups show up and hand out over a thousand flyers. We also met plenty of consumers who were shocked, dismayed, and saddened by the news that the CDs that they had just bought probably won’t [...]
Tamed the Bulgarian Beasts
Monday, 04. 4. 2005 – Category: General
Hopefully done.
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