another extension campaign - the EFF comments
Content Protection and what's wrong with it.
And as a result of a December 2005 US law
we might all soon find devices treating us as if we don't own the copyright in our own recordings.
A Clearinghouse For New Ideas About Copyright
article: The Copyright Cage Legal Affairs, July/August 2003, on the
damage done by copyright law interpreted broadly and in favour of lobbyists.
about excessive profits and unfair complaining
Ross Anderson's TC FAQ
FIPR on Digital Rights Management
Article on legal downloads by Michael D. Crawford
copied here and
on the author's site.
There are copyright-related (and other) articles here:
www.michaelgeist.ca such as
this.
Michael Geist and 30 days of DRM
Joost Smiers on abandoning copyright
Ernest Adams on the end of copyright
EFF on the DMCA consultation process
Read this news item about banning tab sites - apparently
they don't even want you playing instruments. Next time someone suggests a reason for falling record sales explain it's the boycott
of unhappy former customers.
An article about the RIAA in court.
and more in a blog
DRM in the Inquirer
blog describing DRM
article on DRM in computers
music tax
petition on copyright extension - with signatures from dead people
Michael Geist on DRM (www.thestar.com).
Michael Geist on failure of the DMCA (techdirt.com).
RIAA in court again
BBC on how copyright duration affects the Internet
MPAA violating copyright
More thoughts on copyright duration
Washington Post on internet photos and double standards
This article says copyright is dead - or at least not much use for making money from comercial content.
an article on consistency or how copyright is not supposed to work only one way
Patent articles - I think copyright and not patents is the way to handle software
Canadian DMCA
still more on the RIAA in court
Bruce Schneier on kill switches
piracy cost assessments
yet more copyright extension
Copyright forms the basis of free and open source software licences - as has been confirmed in court. copyright and sotware licences
Copyrights and Copywrongs (book) - I have not read this but it sounds interesting.
I've found that Musica (.co.uk, with an address in Jersey) are selling "CD" format music with copy protection that they fail to disclose before shipping - and that prevents playing on Linux PCs. Don't put up with this. They have a FREEPOST address for returns but they don't actually carry out their stated refund policy.
Musica's email informing me of delivery says:
Should you have any problems with any of these items, just pop
them back into the box and stick the returns label from the
bottom of the despatch note back on to the box to send it back to
us. No postage is necessary if posted from within the UK, but
you may like to record the return package, or obtain a
certificate of posting, if you are sending back more than one
item.
My findings on the CDs I've bought.
uk.eurorights.org on CDs
The Creative Commons site
A site discusing and campaigning about the future of music.
Boycott the record industry and learn an instrument yourself. This is easier than you might have thought.
Patents are different from copyright and they have their own problems.
An article on patents - illustrated by early aviation.
Another involving cars.
Bruce Perens on
software patents.
A story on the Walkman ... do patents protect an inventor or
must you spend 25 years in court?
what counts as obvious ?
A judge frowns on software patents
prior art in railway control - and an update
and the court case described by Bruce Perens.
software patent poster
Math You Can't Use - patents are a particularly poor match for software work
cable design clash over patents
Against Monopoly