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Can Hollywood’s Ari Emanuel Script a Silicon Valley Cease-Fire?
Hollywood super-agent Ari Emanuel, famously portrayed by Jeremy Piven in the HBO show “Entourage,” has urged the entertainment industry and Silicon Valley to work together on a solution for Internet piracy.
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Irony Alert: Congressman Who Wrote SOPA Violated Copyright Law
Lamar Smith (R-TX), the chief sponsor of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), cares very much about holding copyright violators accountable for their actions — except, apparently, when it comes to himself.
Jamie Lee Curtis …
Online Campaign Aims to Stop Congress from Jailing Justin Bieber
An anti-piracy bill currently in Congress could, if passed, put Justin Bieber in jail for five years, according to a new online campaign against the bill. Clearly, this campaign has not considered that the idea may cause all manner of conflict for those who are pro-electronic freedom but anti-Bieber.
The bill, S.978, is one that …
Twitpic Says Sorry for Copyright Confusion
Twitter image service Twitpic today apologized after an update to its terms and conditions implied that it claimed ownership of all images uploaded to its servers, and could sell them on without the original photographer’s permission.
After a day of protest online, Twitpic rushed to amend its terms page, and said sorry to users on its …
Law Firm Finds Success Targeting Those Who Post Copyrighted Images
Before you use that copyrighted image on your blog you might want to think twice: It could cost you up to $150,000. Still, if you’re willing to take the risk because you think you won’t get caught since a lot of people are doing the same thing, one law firms is on to you. They know how the troll the web and are using the power of viral …
Is The Copyright Act Biased Against Those Who Can’t Read?
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act may have been created to combat internet piracy, but does it unfairly penalize those with reading difficulties? That’s the question at the heart of a lawsuit filed against Viacom, News Corp., MTV Corporation and Google (amongst others) by Montana-based investigative reporter Todd Ouellette. Ouellette, …
Girl Talk’s “All Day”: Now With Visuals
By now you’ve probably downloaded Girl Talk’s latest album, All Day, for free. Or maybe you were one of those fanboy detectives who tracked down all 372 of the album’s samples and posted them to Wikipedia within the first couple of hours. (More on TIME.com: Are Girl Talk and Other Mashup Artists …
Cooks Source Magazine Folds, Editor Issues Bitter Statement
Whether or not the intentions of the angry Internet mob was to tear down a local publication or not, the Cooks Source Magazine controversy has forced the magazine to fold. In an interview with the Daily Hampshire Gazette, Griggs tells the reporter that the free magazine is done for. The November 2010 issue will be the last …
Are Girl Talk and Other Mashup Artists Violating Copyright?
If you’re one of the people who got Girl Talk’s (aka Greg Gillis) All Day to actually download, congratulations you’re the proud owner of his latest album. The tracks might sound familiar, though. Girl Talk is a mashup artist, a musician whose instruments are pieces of recorded music that he or she mixes together to compose a …