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EFF suing on JibJab's behalf for "This
Land is Your Land" parody

EFF suing on JibJab's behalf for "This
Land is Your Land" parody 08/02/2004 03:02 AM
EFF has taken things one step further with JibJab and their endangered political parody of This Land is Your Land (Woody Guthrie's copyright holder has threatened to sue them for their work).

We're bringing the fight to Guthrie's rightsholders, and suing on JibJab's behalf, "to defend JibJab's fair use and free speech rights."

Check out Donna's excellent and heavily linked post for more. Link

EFF defending creators of This Land is
Your Land parody

EFF defending creators of This Land is
Your Land parody 07/29/2004 06:53 AM
I'm proud to relate that EFF is representing Jib Jab, the creators of the wonderful "This Land is Your Land" Flash parody that aroused the ire of the holder of Woody Guthrie's copyrights and resulted in a threatened lawuit. Here's a little bit of my cow-orker Fred von Lohmann's letter to the copyright-holder's lawyers.

In your July 23 letter, you contend that "This Land" offers no "satirical comment" on the Guthrie original. You are mistaken.

While your view of Guthrie's "This Land is Your Land" as being predominantly about "the beauty of the American landscape" and "the disenfranchisement of the underclass" is interesting, most Americans think of the song as an iconic expression of the ideal of national unity. Jib Jab's parody addresses, among other things, the lack of national unity that characterizes our current political climate (ending with the optimistic hope that unity might be rediscovered). In short, "This Land" explores exactly the same themes as the Guthrie original, using the parodic device of contrast and juxtaposition to comment on the original. See Abilene Music v. Sony Music Entertainment, 320 F .Supp.2d 84, 90-91 (S.D.N.Y. 2003) (emphasizing the role of contrast and juxtaposition as parodic devices). The parodic comment takes on an additional dimension of irony when viewed in light of the often omitted closing stanzas of Guthrie's original.

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This Land Is St. Joe's Land

This Land Is St. Joe's Land 04/14/2005 03:32 PM
Real estate will always be worth something. So, too, should the St. Joe Company.

MS Source Code Illegally Leaked

MS Source Code Illegally Leaked 02/13/2004 01:24 PM

Microsoft came out and admitted yesterday that portions of the source code for Windows NT and Windows 2000 had been made available on the Internet.

They're not sure just yet who is at fault — source code is made available to third-party vendors for development purposes, but those developers are sworn to secrecy, but somebody hosed the program. MS is not yet sure just how serious the breach is.

In an article on The Register, John Lettice comments that...

The impact of the leak is however massively more important for Microsoft than it is for the rest of the world, as it effectively blows the company's 'security via obscurity' approach to smithereens. Over the past year or so it has, with much pomp and ceremony, unveiled its shared source programme as a counter to open source, while in the same period it has repeatedly stressed that it cannot disclose some aspects of its code to rivals for security reasons. If they could see it, it would leak, and then evil terrorists would be able to break into Windows more easily. Microsoft, incidentally, currently has the shared source web site as a 'related link' on the leak statement page. Are you entirely sure about this relationship, dahlinks?

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Hack your Xbox, get illegally converged

Hack your Xbox, get illegally converged 12/15/2003 11:36 AM
Why buy an expensive "media center" PC with lots of DRM that restrict how you can use your own music and movies, when you can hack a cheap Xbox to do the same thing?

"It's a convenience thing," said Phil, whose hacking hobbies discourage him from divulging his full name. "All of my movies are organized into categories, and it's very easy to navigate through the menus to find exactly what I want to watch. I have a PC in the basement of my house which stores all of my music and movies, and the Xbox makes it extremely convenient to use them."

Link (via Gizmodo)

1.67m Brits download films illegally

1.67m Brits download films illegally 05/07/2004 12:13 PM
£45m cost to video industry

GM rice 'sold illegally in China'

GM rice 'sold illegally in China' 04/13/2005 02:21 PM
Greenpeace says genetically modified rice is being sold in China before it has been declared safe.

Google May Have Illegally Sold Shares
(AP)

Google May Have Illegally Sold Shares
(AP) 08/04/2004 08:11 PM
AP - Google Inc. may have illegally issued more than 23 million shares of its stock to hundreds of employees and consultants, injecting an unexpected legal risk into the online search engine leader's highly anticipated IPO.

Google May Have Illegally Sold Shares

Google May Have Illegally Sold Shares 08/04/2004 08:12 PM
The company may have illegally issued more than 23 million shares of its stock to hundreds of employees and consultants, injecting an unexpected legal risk into the online search engine leader's highly anticipated IPO.

Google May Have Illegally Issued Stock

Google May Have Illegally Issued Stock 08/05/2004 12:14 PM
Red Nova Aug 5 2004 3:39PM GMT

Google May Have Illegally Issued Shares

Google May Have Illegally Issued Shares 08/05/2004 03:13 AM
Los Angeles Times Aug 5 2004 7:29AM GMT

Google may have issued shares illegally

Google may have issued shares illegally 08/05/2004 01:52 AM
The Web search giant is offering to buy back millions of shares it doled out to employees and consultants.

Study: Thousands Bought Guns Illegally
(AP)

Study: Thousands Bought Guns Illegally
(AP) 07/26/2004 05:48 PM
AP - More than 7,000 people who should have been barred from buying guns were able to buy them anyway in 2002 and 2003, according to a Justice Department review released Monday.

Two held for illegally using internet
for international calls

Two held for illegally using internet
for international calls 04/11/2005 07:55 AM
NewKerala.com Apr 11 2005 11:54AM GMT

Father: Cocaine in Diaper Illegally
Found (AP)

Father: Cocaine in Diaper Illegally
Found (AP) 03/06/2004 02:00 AM
AP - A father facing drug charges argues a trooper made an unconstitutional search by changing his son's apparently soiled diaper and finding a bag of crack hidden inside.

Microsoft may be illegally entering
search market, says US

Microsoft may be illegally entering
search market, says US 04/15/2004 03:56 AM
Silicon.com Apr 15 2004 7:53AM GMT

Sun fined for illegally exporting
computers to China

Sun fined for illegally exporting
computers to China 12/15/2003 09:25 PM
San Francisco Chronicle Dec 15 2003 8:46PM ET

Google may have illegally issued
employee shares

Google may have illegally issued
employee shares 08/05/2004 09:23 PM
The New Zealand Herald Aug 6 2004 1:51AM GMT

Polish leader once worked illegally in
UK (Reuters)

Polish leader once worked illegally in
UK (Reuters) 05/06/2004 03:49 PM
Reuters - He wouldn't confirm that he was once a bartender in a London pub, but a cheerful Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski admitted that he worked illegally in Britain three decades ago.

41% of computer software in Ireland
illegally pirated

41% of computer software in Ireland
illegally pirated 07/07/2004 04:29 AM
Irish Independent Jul 7 2004 8:52AM GMT

Google may have illegally issued
employees shares

Google may have illegally issued
employees shares 08/05/2004 01:56 AM
Reuters Aug 5 2004 6:09AM GMT

Google May Have Illegally Issued
Employees Shares (Reuters)

Google May Have Illegally Issued
Employees Shares (Reuters) 08/05/2004 01:26 AM
Reuters - Web search company Google Inc. said it may have illegally issued shares potentially worth as much as $3.1 billion after its planned IPO, and offered to buy them back for a fraction of that amount.

58% SKorean internet users illegally
download films

58% SKorean internet users illegally
download films 07/12/2004 05:40 AM
Theage.com.au - Mon Jul 12, 04:41 am GMT

UPDATE 2-Google delays IPO, may have
issued shares illegally

UPDATE 2-Google delays IPO, may have
issued shares illegally 08/05/2004 09:23 PM
Reuters Aug 6 2004 1:46AM GMT

British survey shows children gambling
illegally online

British survey shows children gambling
illegally online 07/28/2004 05:48 AM
Thoroughbredtimes.com - Wed Jul 28, 08:48 am GMT

Pakistan, recent recipient of F-16s, has
been illegally acquiring U.S. nuclear
technology 3/27

Pakistan, recent recipient of F-16s, has
been illegally acquiring U.S. nuclear
technology 3/27 03/27/2005 05:00 AM

latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-paknuke26mar26,0,7347311.s tory?coll=la-home-headlines
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Quarter of internet users downloading
films illegally - MPAA

Quarter of internet users downloading
films illegally - MPAA 07/09/2004 10:19 AM
DMeurope.com Jul 9 2004 2:10PM GMT

Azerbaijani-U.S. CATEL JV illegally
provides 3G CDMA mobile communication
services to population, Ministry of

Azerbaijani-U.S. CATEL JV illegally
provides 3G CDMA mobile communication
services to population, Ministry of 11/04/2003 09:47 AM
Baku Today Nov 4 2003 9:08AM ET

Former FBI employee pleads guilty to
illegally accessing drug case computer
files

Former FBI employee pleads guilty to
illegally accessing drug case computer
files 12/02/2003 03:44 PM
San Francisco Chronicle Dec 2 2003 3:35PM ET

Portland's Mayor of Wi-Fi

Portland's Mayor of Wi-Fi 06/09/2004 03:25 PM
Local paper covers Portland's Personal Telco community wireless project, focusing on its lead booster, Nigel Ballard: The article in Willamette Week presents a comprehensive look at Personal Telco's efforts to date. It examines Nigel's work on the Box, an education-consortium-funded pastiche of back-haul, front-haul, and mesh that could be a tool for free wireless in urban cities as well as Internet access in remote reaches of the world. The article looks into how municipal Wi-Fi in Portland might challenge entrenched commercial interests, as well. Two coffeeshop businesses that offer free Wi-Fi with Personal Telco's help clearly see an effect. Both report a new audience of regulars who spend money. Nigel is a frequent correspondent to this site, always providing interesting insight into the what's coming next. The article doesn't even mention that his past and current day job has been to build commercial Wi-Fi networks at hotels and elsewhere. There's too much to say about the public efforts....

Mayor gets 30 years for genocide

Mayor gets 30 years for genocide 06/17/2004 06:33 AM
A former Rwandan mayor is sentenced to 30 years in prison for organising the slaughter of 20,000 people during the 1994 genocide.

Voters say 'No' to mayor

Voters say 'No' to mayor 05/20/2004 07:07 PM
Ceredigion rejects plans for Wales' first directly-elected mayor.

Mayor Won't Leave Her Office (AP)

Mayor Won't Leave Her Office (AP) 05/31/2004 08:24 AM
AP - A Pennsylvania mayor was holed up in her office at the police station and vowed to stay there until Tuesday to prevent a locksmith hired by the Borough Council from locking her out.

"Mayor of the Sunset Strip"

"Mayor of the Sunset Strip" 04/13/2004 08:48 AM
Meet L.A. DJ Rodney Bingenheimer, who helped launch the careers of Blondie, the Ramones, Van Halen, the Go-Go's and countless others.

96-Year-Old Mayor May Be Oldest in U.S.
(AP)

96-Year-Old Mayor May Be Oldest in U.S.
(AP) 12/22/2004 01:02 AM
AP - In a community where everyone is over 55, it's fitting that Mayor Dorothy Geeben's age has made her a celebrity of sorts. At 96, Geeben may be the nation's oldest mayor. She's so well- liked in her the retirement community of nearly 1,000 that no one is opposing her re-election this week, and her next two-year term will last through the end of 2006, or nine months past her 98th birthday.

has another take on Mayor Gavin Newsom

has another take on Mayor Gavin Newsom 02/18/2004 10:54 AM
Gavin Newsom isn't Roy Moore .. Eugene Volokh .. DISAGREES

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NYC Mayor Tries to End Atkins Feud (AP)

NYC Mayor Tries to End Atkins Feud (AP) 01/24/2004 05:05 PM
AP - Mayor Michael Bloomberg, embroiled in a battle over remarks he made about Dr. Robert Atkins, offered the diet guru's widow a low-carb mea culpa Saturday — an invitation to a steak dinner.

Mayor to assess congestion toll

Mayor to assess congestion toll 02/16/2004 10:36 PM
London's mayor releases the first full report on the effects of congestion charging a year after it is introduced.

N.Y. Mayor Says City Safe for New Year's

N.Y. Mayor Says City Safe for New Year's 12/29/2003 05:36 PM
Reuters via Wired News Dec 29 2003 3:39PM ET
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