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The title of the MAFIAAFire forum post “The Copyright Lobby Absolutely Loves Child Pornography” is intentionally controversial and eye-grabbing, but when you look at the actual content of the post all of a sudden the politics and chess game of censorship as played by the copyright lobby makes all kinds of sense. From the article, [...] Health care professionals are supposed to do no harm, per the Hippocratic Oath. Who would ever have thought that some of these so-called “professionals” would partake of censorship? Timothy Lee’s recent article on arstechnica.com highlights a dentist who is in fact doing exactly this: I needed a new dentist, and Yelp says Dr. Cirka is [...] A recent Ars Technica story highlights the recent actions of Judge Milton Shadur (who I’m going to refer to as Judge Milton) against two cases filed by copyright lawyer John Steele. Steele had the misfortune of two similar cases landing in Judge Milton’s court, both copyright infringement cases involving pornography, and both identifying the defendants [...] A recent post by Geoff Livingston to his blog touched off a firestorm of controversy recently. Photographers take the stance that regardless of where the photo is posted, the photographer retains absolute copyright, even to the point of–somewhat tastelessly–insisting on the use of a watermarked photo for such uses as a profile (as blogged by [...] A recent post to the ThinSkull Blog at advicescene.com highlights a case in Canada which takes the concept of “work for hire” as it relates to copyright and quite literally turns it upside down. From the post: John Hawley was sentenced to ten years in prison for armed robberies committed in his mid-twenties. After he [...] Russell McOrmond’s blog entry on Digital Copyright Canada chronicles a recent statement by the IIPA (International Intellectual Property Alliance, a name which should have been avoided due to obvious bias). The IIPA attacks legally free software in their submissions to six different countries. Now, having a legally free alternative to something like Microsoft Windows or [...] I know this is way old, but I’m running out of things I feel like writing about and I need to start clearing off some of these drafts. In early October, Techdirt reported on musicians lining up to take back their copyright from the record companies, in the wake of Jack Kirby’s heirs invoking the [...] Okay, I’m finally catching up. This should be one of the last “old news” posts for a while. I may have one or two more and then the focus will return to more current items. As blogged on Lockergnome and BoingBoing, the MPAA has disgracefully acted to shut down an entire city’s public Wi-Fi network [...] |
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