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Copyright Office Suggests Changes To
Induce Act
Copyright Office Suggests Changes To
Induce Act
09/03/2004 10:22 AMCopyright Office Endorses INDUCE Act
Copyright Office Endorses INDUCE Act
07/22/2004 04:26 AMEarlier this week, in looking through the
list of
speakers at the INDUCE Act Hearings, Ernest Miller noted that the
first on the list, Marybeth Peters, Register of Copyrights for the US
Copyright Office, has "never seen an extension of copyright she didn't
like." Thus, it's not at all surprising that she's
going to come out strongly
in favor of the bill, according to a copy of her statement that
News.com got their hands on. In fact, she's going to stand up there
with a straight face and say that the Betamax ruling goes too far and
needs to be replaced. Since most supporters of the INDUCE Act have
been claiming that it really doesn't impact the Betamax decision this
is the first sign that people are admitting they're trying to change
the Betamax rule. Others who will clearly lay out misleading claims
in favor of the INDUCE Act (as they've been doing for the past couple
of weeks) includes Robert W. Holleyman of the BSA (recently shown to
have
made
misleading statements concerning stats about unauthorized software
copying) and Mitch Bainwol of the RIAA, whose letter to the Senate
about the Induce Act was
easily
torn to shreds by Ernest Miller. Standing up for the other side
will Gary Shapiro from the Consumer Electronics Association, who is
usually a strong advocate of promoting innovation and Kevin McGuiness
of NetCoalition who is "alarmed" by the bill and "troubled" by the
Copyright Office's decision to question the Betamax verdict. Should
be a fun time. No one's mind is going to get changed, of course,
since we no longer seem to live in a time where changing your mind
based on the facts is encouraged, but Senator Hatch has a history of
saying
the most ridiculous things during these things, so there may be a
good quote or two coming out of all of this.
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Incompetent or Unethical? The Story of
CBS News' Response to Criticism Over the
Killian Memos
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Incompetent or Unethical? The Story of
CBS News' Response to Criticism Over the
Killian Memos
09/17/2004 11:47 PM"Incompetent or Unethical? The story of CBS News' response to Killian
memos" .. lengthy and thorough chronology of
RatherGate
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The Importance of...: The Obsessively
Annotated Introduction to the INDUCE Act
The Importance of...: The Obsessively
Annotated Introduction to the INDUCE Act
06/25/2004 04:10 AMthis detailed analysis .. deconstructs ..
withering
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"US Copyright Office"
"US Copyright Office"
06/03/2004 12:21 PMCopyright Office Rules Against Lexmark
Copyright Office Rules Against Lexmark
10/29/2003 01:37 PMInterview - Rob Kasunic, US Copyright
Office
Interview - Rob Kasunic, US Copyright
Office
08/20/2004 02:53 AMWebmasterBase Aug 20 2004 7:18AM GMT
US Copyright Office Wants to outlaw
VCRs?
US Copyright Office Wants to outlaw
VCRs?
07/23/2004 11:43 AMErnest Miller writes:
Yesterday, Marybeth Peters, the head of the US Copyright Office,
testified before the Senate regarding the INDUCE Act. Her testimony
was even more radical than the RIAA's. Not only did she
(inappropriately) explain what outcome the Appeals Court in the
Grokster case should reach and argue (wrongly) that the INDUCE
Act wouldn't have a chilling effect on innovation, she actually said
she thought the INDUCE Act was not enough. The Register of Copyrights
argued that the Betamax decision, which made VCRs legal, should be
overturned by Congress. Wow.
LinkUS Copyright Office asking about "orphan
works"
US Copyright Office asking about "orphan
works"
02/01/2005 09:18 PM
Dan Gillmor on Grassroots
Journalism
Copyright Progress, Maybe
The U.S. Copyright Office wants
comments on
"the issues raised by 'orphan works,'
i.e., copyrighted works whose owners are difficult or even impossible
to locate. Concerns have been raised that the uncertainty surrounding
ownership of such works might needlessly discourage subsequent
creators and users from incorporating such works in new creative
efforts or making such works available to the
public."
This is wonderful news, and a sign of that
people like Larry Lessig are
making progress in educating the powers-that-be on the issues.
Public Knowledge has a
good summary.
This is good news. Of course my opinion is
that orphan works should go to the public domain. I guess the details
of how one determines whether something is an orphan or not will be
important, but I'm sure we can think of something. Lessig's idea of a
minimal charge to keep your copyright alive comes to mind.
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Boucher Criticizes Copyright Office
Boucher Criticizes Copyright Office
10/30/2003 11:46 PMRep. Rick Boucher, a longtime foe of the DMCA, (one of very few in
Congress who are concerned with this issue) issued a statement today
calling the recent Copyright Office rulings on DMCA exemptions
"misguided" for
not allowing more exemptions, and pointing out how fair use is
harmed by these rules. Of course, he's still pushing his own bill
which would modify the DMCA to allow for more fair use rights - but
there hasn't been much movement on the bill. Hopefully, this ruling
from the Copyright Office will get something moving again.
Update: News.com has
publi
shed Boucher's statement.
Copyright Office pitches anti-P2P bill
Copyright Office pitches anti-P2P bill
09/02/2004 05:24 PMZDNet Sep 2 2004 9:32PM GMT
Boucher calls copyright office
'misguided'
Boucher calls copyright office
'misguided'
11/01/2003 06:24 AMDC.Internet.com
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700+ Orphan Works comments at the
Copyright Office
700+ Orphan Works comments at the
Copyright Office
03/30/2005 04:32 AMCory Doctorow:
Gavin sez, "The U.S. Copyright Office has posted the orphan works
comments that were submitted. Over 700 comments were submitted in
total. The CO will be accepting comments in direct reply to these
through May 9."
Link
(
Thanks, Gavin!)
Copyright Office Asking for Comments on
Orphan Works
Copyright Office Asking for Comments on
Orphan Works
02/05/2005 10:03 PMI guess "Orphan works" rolls off the tongue a little easier than
"Orphanware" or "Abandonedintellectualproperty". Anyway, the Copyright
Office is asking for comments about orphan works, which it defines
as...
Microsoft Office Conference Draws Strong
Interest
Microsoft Office Conference Draws Strong
Interest
02/05/2005 09:46 PMMicrosoft kicked off their first Office Developer conference today at
the Microsoft Conference Centre in Redmond, US.
The conference, aimed at system developers for Office, drew more than
800 developers from over 40 countries world wide. Those attending the
three-day conference include professional developers and software
architects from systems integrator, independent software vendor and
enterprise customer companies.
Microsoft Office vice president, Richard McAniff delivered the opening
keynote presentation this morning and Bill Gates is expected to
provide a special keynote this coming Friday at 10AM PST.
In the past 15 months, more than 70,000 partners have been trained to
build, customise and use Microsoft Office System-based solutions.
These partners specialise in helping developers and ISVs deploy
Microsoft Office applications.
Microsoft claims that more than 1 million developers are building
solutions tailored to Microsoft Office 2003. One third of these
developers are building solutions that utilise XML and nearly 200
thousand are using Visual Studio Tools for the Microsoft Office System
2003.
Video:
Watch Bill Gates Keynote - Friday, 10AM
PST
View:
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Exemptions from Prohibition on
Circumvention...
U.S. Copyright Office, Rulemaking on
Exemptions from Prohibition on
Circumvention...
10/29/2003 03:52 PMfour classes of exemptions to the DMCA .. DMCA 2002 rulemaking ..
reply comments .. rulemaking .. 1201 .. DMCA
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Copyright Office sets Webcasting royalty
rates
Copyright Office sets Webcasting royalty
rates
02/12/2004 04:55 PMCNET Feb 12 2004 9:47PM GMT
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Guest bl0gging at Corante
Guest bl0gging at Corante
11/14/2003 04:08 PMI'm guest blogging at Corante Many2Many. E.g., I just posted something
about why connected democracy is even better than participatory
democracy. Feel free to swing on by, y'all....
Boing Boing: US Copyright Office Wants
to outlaw VCRs?
Boing Boing: US Copyright Office Wants
to outlaw VCRs?
07/25/2004 04:04 AMUS Copyright Office Wants to outlaw VCRs .. the Boingers .. Boing
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Between Lawyers: the intersection of
technology, culture and the law. Corante
Between Lawyers: the intersection of
technology, culture and the law. Corante
03/29/2005 04:27 AMBetween Lawyers
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Open source, linux, microsoft, perl,
BSD, GPL, PHP, Apache, MySQL, GCC. Joe
'Zonker' Brockmeier - Corante
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03/13/2003 10:21 AMOpen Mind
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Canadian Copyright Board allows
downloads, copyright levies
Canadian Copyright Board allows
downloads, copyright levies
12/14/2003 12:27 PM
The
Copyright Board of Canada
issued a ruling on
" private
copying ", largely via peer-to-peer computing, with several
components. First, downloading is acceptable, but uploading is not
(presumably to target hyperpirates). Second, new mechanisms for
levies were described, freezing current ones, allowing new
charges.
the Copyright Board said uploading or distributing
copyrighted works online appeared to be prohibited under current
Canadian law.
However, the country's copyright law does allow making a copy for
personal use and does not address the source of that copy or whether
the original has to be an authorized or noninfringing version, the
board said.
"The Importance of RSS"
"The Importance of RSS"
06/22/2005 02:21 AMThe Importance of Linux
The Importance of Linux
05/04/2004 03:22 PMOf course readers of a book learn from it, but authors learn from
writing it, too. One of the most surprising things I learned from
writing the second edition of Advanced UNIX Programming was how good
Linux really is.
The Importance of Place
The Importance of Place
06/17/2005 03:28 PM
Place, the place we call home, the place
we belong to, defines us. When we have lost our sense of place, we
have lost our soul.
Last Christmas I wrote a piece about
homelessness, and suggested that the homeless and the addicted are
a perfect metaphor for all of us living in modern civilization. I
wrote:
Civilization is our Pusher. It's The Man who keeps us hooked on
consumption and debt, The Man who holds the key to our prison and
gives
us our illusory rush of elation when we buy and use His addictive
product. The Man who seduces us back even when we have decided that
life in His prison is insane, self-abusive, worse than death. The
monkey is our addiction, without which we cannot live. And we wander
the streets of civilization's artificial world in a daze, never really
home, wondering what is missing, why we feel so lost. Civilization is
our ghetto, a whole world of six billion homeless people, setting
fires
on every corner for warmth, ganging up and stealing everything we can
get our hands on to pawn for our fixes, breeding babies already
drug-addicted at birth.
So the next time you see a homeless person, or an addict, don't be
frightened, angry, or filled with pathos. You are looking in the
mirror. It is we who are
homeless, and addicted. What will it take before we break the habit,
walk away from The Man, and find our way home?
On another
occasion I wrote:
Know your place. We are all part
of a web, a mosaic, and we all travel, but ultimately we have our own
place, our 'home'. If you're not totally connected with everything and
every creature that is part of your place, then it isn't your place.
If
you don't have a place, then you don't yet really exist. A house is
not
a place, though if it's open it can be part of one. A mind is not a
place.
The wonderful books of biologist Bernd Heinrich are about birds and
animals, but most of all they are about the places that the creatures
he studies call home, and about the importance of those places. In his
latest book The Geese
of Beaver Bog
he talks about another biologist, David Ehrenfeld, who writes about
animals and the importance of place to them. I've ordered Ehrenfeld's
1994 book Beginning Again,
but I've already read the amazing first chapter
from Amazon's 'search inside' page for the book. The chapter is called
'Places' and here is an extract that shook me to the core of my
being:
Because the turtles [I was
studying in Costa Rica] come out to nest after dark, much of my work
was done at night. There was a great deal of waiting between turtles,
plenty of time to sit on a driftwood log and think. In the first years
of my research I was often the only one on the beach for miles. After
ten or twenty minutes of sitting without using my flashlight, my eyes
adapted to the dark and I could make out forms against the brown-black
sand: the beach plum and coconut palm silhouettes in back, the flicker
of the surf in front, sometimes even the shadowy outline of a trailing
railroad vine or the scurry of a ghost crab at my feet. The air was
heavy and damp with a distinctive primal smell that I can remember but
not describe. The rhythmic roar of the surf a few feet away never
ceased -- my favourite sound. I hear it as I write in my landlocked
office in New Jersey. And then, with ponderous, dramatic slowness, a
giant turtle would emerge from the sea.
Usually I would see the track first, a vivid black line standing out
against the lesser blackness, like the swath of a bulldozer. If I was
closer, I could hear the animal's deep hiss of breath and the sounds
of
her undershell scraping over logs. If there was a moon, I might see
the
light glistening off the parabolic curve of the still wet shell. Size
at night is hard to determine: even the sprightly 180-pounders,
probably nesting for the first time, looked big when nearby, but the
400-pound ancients, with shells nearly four feet long, were colossal
in
the darkness. Then when the excavations of the body pit and egg cavity
were done, if I slowly parted the hind flippers of the now-oblivious
turtle, I could watch the perfect white spheres falling and falling
into the flask-shaped pit scooped into the soft sand.
Falling as they have fallen for a hundred million years, with the same
slow cadence, always shielded from the rain or stars by the same
massive bulk with the beaked head and the same large, myopic eyes
rimmed with crusts of sand washed out by tears. Minutes and hours,
days
and months dissolve into eons. I am on an Oligocene beach, an Eocene
beach, a Cretaceous beach -- the scene is the same. It is night. The
turtles are coming back, always back; I hear a deep hiss of breath and
catch a glint of wet shell as the continents slide and crash, the
oceans form and grow. The turtles were coming here before here was
here. At Tortuguero I learned the meaning of place, and began to
understand how it is bound up with time.
Ehrenfeld goes on to describe the cruel and careless treatment of the
turtles by local fishermen, and how the witnessing of such atrocities
by the President of Costa Rica so enraged him that he took steps to
protect the green turtle's Tortuguero breeding ground in
perpetuity.
Often, at night, I sit out on the back hill behind our house,
overlooking the 1100-acre Albion Hills Conservation Area, with Chelsea
the dog, just paying attention to the sounds and the smells and the
shadowy sights in the moonlight. I soon forget there is a house behind
me, and behind it a community of 34 houses interspersed with
wilderness
wetlands, and beyond it a city of 6 million that is forecast to grow
to
as many as 40 million by the end of this century. To us for a few
moments there is only the wilderness, the sounds of owls and wood
frogs
and wind through the trees that have been here for a hundred thousand
millennia -- the dogwood and the balsam poplar and the maple and the
trembling aspen and the white birch and white cedar and bur oak and
ironwood and pussywillow, and the smells of rain and muskrat and
decaying leaves. And I long to see and feel how this, my adopted home,
this place that has welcomed me and allowed me to be a part of it and
to share in its wonders, looked before man arrived to change it
quickly
and utterly. For even here, where nature is respected and where the
actions of conservation authorities and lack (for now) of development
stress has allowed some of this land to remain unaltered, and some
more
to start the slow path back to something like what it was like before
we arrived, it still bears little resemblance, to the trained eye, to
what it must have been, in the eons of silence and darkness before man
arrived with his noise and artificial light and carelessness and
altered it beyond recognition.
If I am to believe the biologists, the area I call home once probably
looked like these photos:
I can imagine living in a place like this, but only because I do live in a place vaguely
like this. If I were to have spent my whole life living in a city, or
even on a farm, I don't think I could imagine it. And even if I could,
I don't think I could conceive of it as my place, the place to which I
belonged. While this is my adopted home, it is only, naturally, the
place of a rare and scattered minority of humans, the First Nations,
who learned, in ways that we never have and which I cannot hope to
comprehend, to live with the bears and wildcats and mosquitos and
black
flies and bitterly cold winters and lack of year-round food supplies.
Without my protection from these dangers and discomforts, I could
never
call this place home.
So in order to make places like this habitable to us, as we destroyed
the places in the cradles of human civilization that were habitable to
us naturally, we had to reform them with our cities and farms, until
they became unrecognizable, nothing like the pictures above --
terraformed, civilized, converted to a dreadful sameness all over the
planet. These cities and farms were as alien to us as they were to the
creatures that retreated in their wake. When we try to imagine how
bizarre it would be to live on a space station, or on the moon, we
should consider that we have already made a much more profound and
barren adaptation here on our suffering planet.
But these cities and farms are not natural places for humans. They are
not where we lived and thrived for three million years before their
invention. Then we lived in the warm climates of Africa, of South Asia
and of the Southern edge of Europe, when all those lands were heavily
forested. We were and are, like all primates, creatures of the forest,
and specifically of the tropical forest. And while three million years
is but an instant compared to the hundred million years that the giant
green turtles of Tortuguero have called that place home, that tropical
forest is still the place our DNA tells us is our home, our place.
Most of that tropical forest is now destroyed, cleared for cities and
farms, and we have been gone from there so long that the thought of
returning there even if there was room for us, which there is not, is
too terrifying to countenance. So we moved from there to less
hospitable and more dangerous lands and remade them into cities and
farms as well: Since we could not live in these hostile environments
we
destroyed them and built ourselves artificial landscapes, vast alien
prisons which protected us from the terrors of nature and weather but
detached us completely from any sense of place.
So now we are all homeless, six billion of us living in an artificial
world of our own making. We have destroyed our own three-million year
home and most of the homes and places of every other species on Earth,
making them mostly homeless, too, those that we haven't yet made
extinct.
I bow my head to the turtles of Tortuguero. They are so much wiser, so
much more alive than we shallow newcomers to this planet can ever hope
to be. They know the importance of place. They know how to live as
part
of a world to which all life on this planet once belonged. They show
respect for the grand design of our fragile, troubled world, and know
their part in it.
While we are merely astonishingly fierce, wondrously adaptable,
utterly
homeless, arrogant beyond reason, hopelessly lost and addicted to the
perpetuation of our own folly.
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"talks about the importance "
"talks about the importance "
08/27/2004 01:45 PMImportance of Brand
Importance of Brand
02/10/2004 02:45 AM As has been reported everywhere this morning, Mozilla has renamed
Firebird. The new Firefox trademark is the result of a naming conflict
with another open source project, and the process has been written up
by those involved: Ben Goodger,...
The importance of being stateful
The importance of being stateful
04/22/2004 11:52 AMTPM on the importance of words
TPM on the importance of words
04/15/2004 10:30 AM
This is precisely the sort of inane mumbojumbo that will --
perhaps literally -- get us all killed. ...The importance of words
is a conceit of wordsmiths, certainly. But they are important --
especially when they bleed through into thought and action, which
happens more often than you'd think.,
TPM is becoming almost
too widely-read to be postworthy, but Josh really puts things into
perspective with this post.
For an example of what all this jingoistic gibberish can result in,
see the
post below it.
The importance of the veep, then and now
The importance of the veep, then and now
07/06/2004 04:48 PMImportance of a PPC Bid Manager
Importance of a PPC Bid Manager
11/25/2002 10:07 PMStickysauce Nov 25 2002 9:20PM ET
The importance of dreams
The importance of dreams
08/22/2004 07:25 PMI'm back home again; a day later than I was supposed to. With some
very interesting tan lines, I might add.
My Thursday night was one of the strangest ever. Suffice to say that
I ended up alone, in an Irish pub in Reykjavik, listening to
melancholic guitar music and downing a horribly expensive beer. I
also had a fever (of which I was not aware of the time), which
produced some of the most vivid and strangest dreams I've seen in a
long while, when I finally clambered to the youth hostel.
So I dreamed. In one dream, I was crossing a street, and as the
traffic lights went green, all of the cars turned to horses and had to
be herded away so I could cross the street. In a second dream, I saw
myself find an internet terminal, and buying tickets to Oulu for the
day that I arrive in Helsinki.
I wake up - still feverish - and recount some of the dreams to my
travel companion. She looks at me, with a slightly worrying look, as
I start to ponder that the idea from the last dream is not really that
bad.
In our hotel, on the last night, I find a free Internet terminal that
looks just like the one in my dream. So I buy tickets to Oulu,
wondering who the heck gave my subconscious a free reign over my
credit card.
For the rest of the trip, I worry about whether I'm going to make the
connection, or the inevitable gaping hole that will be left on my bank
account, or whether this was such a good idea at all, since I have
been doing nothing but travel, and I shall be doing some heavy travel
in the near future as well. (Bleargh.)
But Outi meets me on the airport, and one hug removes all doubt and
weariness.
Later in the evening, the air is charged with a magical feeling that
cannot be described in my crude words. It's as if one touch could
set the world on fire; as if the thunder outside came from your mind;
as if one look made your heart explode; as if tears and laughter and
pain and pleasure were all the same thing. No masks, no hiding behind
them. No buts, no ifs. Just...
*sighs deeply* This belongs to poets and songwriters and
philosophers; not simple engineers like me. Shutting up now.
Cocoa# and the Importance of Developers
Cocoa# and the Importance of Developers
08/14/2004 08:45 PMApple understands the flow-on effect of having Java/.Net developers
using their platform. Chris Adamson, was asking whats the benefit of a
great java environment from Apple, if there are no Desktop Java Apps.
Well, couple of things, firstly some of these guys are writing simple
Swing Apps in Java, and its good to know they will work and look good
on Macs. But secondly, these developers are making sure software
doesn't break when used on Macs.
The Importance of Microsoft Being
Transparent
The Importance of Microsoft Being
Transparent
02/01/2005 09:56 PMAt next week's VSLive conference in San Francisco, Microsoft Corp.
will be announcing the status of such tools as Visual Studio 2005 Beta
2, SQL Server 2005 Beta 3 and the first Community Technology Preview
of Indigo. S. "Soma" Somasegar, corporate vice president of the
Developer Division at Microsoft, who is one of the show's keynote
speakers, sat down with eWEEK Senior Editor Darryl K. Taft to discuss
the company's plans for these tool releases, as well as the developer
ecosystem, dealing with open source and more. Prior to his current
role overseeing the developer division, Soma served as corporate vice
president of the Windows Engineering Services and Solutions group
within the Windows Division. Prashant Sridharan, senior product
manager for Visual Studio Team System, joined Somasegar in the
interview.
Importance of the ODP to Search Engines
Importance of the ODP to Search Engines
02/09/2003 10:57 PMWho can name a major SE that doesn't use the Dmoz data?
The Importance Of The Betamax Precedent
The Importance Of The Betamax Precedent
01/27/2004 02:53 PMBy now, most people are quite familiar with the old Supreme Court
"Betamax" ruling that said that a technology was legal as long as it
had "substantial non-infringing uses." That's the standard under
which many technologies we use today have been developed - and
now it's under attack by the entertainment industry. Lawyers
for the entertainment industry insist they're not trying to reverse
the Betamax precedent, but to just set some limits on it. Supporters
of the original decision say the entertainment industry still has
always been looking for ways to get around the Betamax decision (and
did so partially via the DMCA). What the article forgets to point out
however, is the biggest joke in all of this: the entertainment
industry that battled so hard against the Betamax decision was, by
far, the biggest beneficiary of that decision. The fact that they
still won't admit they made a mistake twenty years ago, and that
maybe, just maybe, opening up technologies leads to
more
opportunities to profit shows just how short sighted the industry
is. They're trying to kill off a legal ruling that has helped them
generate billions of dollars each year.
The Importance of Collaborative
Development
The Importance of Collaborative
Development
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