Copyright Reform to Free Orphans?

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Therapy breakthrough makes the case for
Save the Orphans copyright reform

Therapy breakthrough makes the case for
Save the Orphans copyright reform 04/09/2004 04:10 PM
UPDATE: Props to Network World for linking to my story. To NWW readers: Read on for a sad postscript. My latest feature for NurseWeek concerns an innovative program that immerses cancer patients into "virtual worlds" while receiving chemotherapy, to lessen...

Will copyright reform chill use of Web?

Will copyright reform chill use of Web? 06/01/2004 06:07 AM
CanadaIT.com Jun 1 2004 9:35AM GMT

Copyright reform conference in Vienna
this June

Copyright reform conference in Vienna
this June 05/14/2004 07:41 PM
Free Bitflows is another upcoming free software/copyright reform conference (along the lines of the Berlin conference I blogged this morning) that's taking place in Vienna this June. Link (Thanks, Janko!)

balanced and fair: Geist on copyright
reform

balanced and fair: Geist on copyright
reform 06/16/2004 03:46 AM
Michael Geist's latest column in the Tornoto Star maps a sane process to realizing balance in IP. Help spread the sanity.

Ottawa moves to restrict music sharing
with proposed copyright reform

Ottawa moves to restrict music sharing
with proposed copyright reform 03/26/2005 01:01 PM
Canadian Press Mar 26 2005 5:03PM GMT

Free Press: media reform advocacy

Free Press: media reform advocacy 05/26/2004 08:00 PM
one of the better-executed outreach and activism sites i've seen

Free Press mediareform.net: media reform
through outreach, activism, lobbying and
networking

Free Press mediareform.net: media reform
through outreach, activism, lobbying and
networking 05/29/2004 06:08 PM
Radio discourages free thought .. take appropriate action .. Media Reform Now 5/11 .. mediareform.network .. free press website .. the site to visit .. Fight the power .. Stop the FCC .. these folks .. contain .. that

mediareform.net
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Copyright free antiwar posters

Copyright free antiwar posters 03/13/2003 10:24 AM
Kimberly sez: "Graphic designers nationwide are organizing to offer provocative, high-impact anti-war posters that are copyright-free and downloadable online. Participants so far include (among others) Michael Mabry, Michael Cronan, Peter Kuper, whose work appears regularly in Time and Mad, and design legend Milton Glaser, whose 'I (Heart) NY' is arguably the most referenced design in American popular culture."

"Copyright-free" means you can use this art for anything, including adding your own information to it and even printing it commercially.

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Irish RIAA wants more copyright for
tax-free artists

Irish RIAA wants more copyright for
tax-free artists 08/02/2004 04:53 AM
The Irish Recording Music Association, whose members pay no taxes on their earnings, is calling for a European copyright term extension to 70 years to create "a level playing field with the USA" (the US's 70 year term is the result of an effort to "create a level playing field with Europe" -- notice a trend here?). This despite the wealth of folk music that is embodied in Irish culture and performance, folk music that enrihces the public and artists without any copyright. Link (Thanks, Bernie!)

Start-Up Vouches Linux Free of Copyright
Abuse

Start-Up Vouches Linux Free of Copyright
Abuse 04/20/2004 12:18 AM
Boston Globe Apr 20 2004 4:13AM GMT

Start-Up Says Linux Copyright Abuse-Free
(Reuters)

Start-Up Says Linux Copyright Abuse-Free
(Reuters) 04/19/2004 10:55 AM
Reuters - A new company said on Monday it can certify that the basic code in the Linux operating software is free of copyright infringement and it will offer standard product liability insurance to developers and users.

OSRM Declares Linux Free of Copyright
Violations

OSRM Declares Linux Free of Copyright
Violations 04/19/2004 08:20 PM

File sharing pits copyright against free
speech

File sharing pits copyright against free
speech 11/04/2003 06:26 AM
reports

nytimes.com/2003/11/03/business/media/03secure.html
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Linux free of copyright violations, says
insurance group

Linux free of copyright violations, says
insurance group 04/20/2004 07:11 AM
Computer Weekly Apr 20 2004 11:29AM GMT

Insurance group: Linux free of copyright
violations

Insurance group: Linux free of copyright
violations 04/19/2004 01:53 PM
A start-up company looking to provide legal insurance against copyright claims against open-source software has declared the Linux kernel free of copyright infringement.

Start-Up Vouches Linux Free of Copyright
Abuse (Reuters)

Start-Up Vouches Linux Free of Copyright
Abuse (Reuters) 04/19/2004 04:27 PM
Reuters - A new company said on Monday it can certify that the basic code in the Linux operating software is free of copyright infringement and it will offer standard product liability insurance to developers and users.

Thanks, Orphans!

Thanks, Orphans! 11/14/2003 06:26 PM
Tom DeLay thinks of the children. The GOP House Leader is attempting to create a charity fund for abused and neglected children. Oh, the fund also pays for "late-night convention parties, a luxury suite during President Bush's speech at Madison Square Garden and yacht cruises" during the 2004 GOP convention. Unlike election funds now restricted by Campaign Finance law, donations to DeLay's semi-charity will be tax-exempt, and of course completely unreported to election officials. (NYT Link)

For the Iraqi orphans

For the Iraqi orphans 03/25/2005 04:09 PM
A foundation has been established to help the Iraqi orphans that survived the January shooting (earlier Mefi thread) by American forces. There's also more recent information about the shooting in this Newsweek article. Check out this BoingBoing post to read an e-mail from the photographer that witnessed the shooting and is now establishing this foundation.

Saving the Artistic Orphans

Saving the Artistic Orphans 09/20/2004 06:45 AM
Brewster Kahle, the founder of the Internet Archive, sues the federal government to help 'orphan works' return to the public domain. Pieces of history and culture are caught in a morass of far-reaching copyright laws. By Katie Dean.

Fund established to help Iraqi orphans

Fund established to help Iraqi orphans 03/24/2005 08:15 PM
Mark Frauenfelder: In January, I wrote about the tragic shooting of an Iraqi family by US soldiers that orphaned nine children. Today, a Boing Boing reader named J. Tony Smith emailed me with some good news. The photographer of the heart-stirring images reports that a fund has been established to benefit the children. The following is from an email that the photographer sent to Tony and other people who were moved by the photos.

I'm Chris Hondros, a photographer for Getty Images, and if you're getting this email you wrote me in the aftermath of the terrible incident I photographed in Tal Afar, Iraq, in January.  If you recall, five children were orphaned by U.S. troops who mistakenly shot up their car when they approached a foot patrol.  The pictures of the incident have run all over the world and already done much to address the issue of checkpoint shootings in Iraq. 

Many of you expressed a desire to help the family; I'm happy to report that a website for donations has now been set up, www.hassanfamilyfund.org.&# 160;  Money donated to the cause will first go to arranging medical care for Racan, a boy in the car who's spinal column was damaged by one of the bullets and will never walk again unless treatment outside of Iraq is arranged for him.  (Humanitarian workers and others in Iraq are working toward this now.)  Excess funds will go to the extended family (the Hassan's had nine children) and to civil projects in Tal Afar itself, most likely a school built to commemorate the deaths. Any help you can give will be appreciated.

More information about this story is available in a story in this week's Newsweek magazine, available online at: http://www.m snbc.msn.com/id/7245228/site/newsweek/

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Apple Makes a Play for NT Orphans

Apple Makes a Play for NT Orphans 07/09/2004 04:39 PM
Apple takes aim at Windows server users with the new NT migration tool that it is building into the Tiger server operating system.

Iran Delays Placing Orphans with
Adoptive Families

Iran Delays Placing Orphans with
Adoptive Families 01/04/2004 10:46 AM
Reuters via Wired News Jan 4 2004 9:39AM ET

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.

reform-0.1

reform-0.1 09/13/2004 04:55 PM

How to reform the FCC

How to reform the FCC 06/21/2004 07:26 AM
Economist Randolph May says the time is ripe to move the FCC to the executive branch, where there will be more political accountability for its actions.

Patent Reform

Patent Reform 04/11/2005 08:52 AM
Steve Lohr: I.B.M. Hopes to Profit by Making Patents Available Free

UN must reform or die, says Rice

UN must reform or die, says Rice 04/16/2005 02:42 AM
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says the United Nations must reform to survive as a "vital force".

The Register wants reform

The Register wants reform 06/24/2005 07:26 PM
According to Cathy Kirkman of Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich and Rosati, the Register of Coyprights has decided to propose abolishing the compulsory right granted by section 115 of the Copyright Act. This is the provision that gives recording artists the right to record "covers," so long as they pay a specified fee. Remember this quote from a 1967 House Judiciary Report, considering a modification to the law as it existed then:

[T]he record producers argued vigorously that the compulsory license system must be retained. They asserted that the record industry is a half-billion-dollar business of great economic importance in the United States and throughout the world; records today are the principal means of disseminating music, and this creates special problems, since performers need unhampered access to musical material on nondiscriminatory terms. Historically, the record producers pointed out, there were no recording rights before 1909 and the 1909 statute adopted the compulsory license as a deliberate anti-monopoly condition on the grant of these rights. They argue that the result has been an outpouring of recorded music, with the public being given lower prices, improved quality, and a greater choice.

Copyright Law Revision, Committee on the Judiciary, 90th Cong. 1st, Sess., Rep. No. 83 66 (March 8, 1967). Apparently the Registrer believes performers no longer "need unhampered access to musical material on nondiscriminatory terms." What progress.

X.org and XFree86 Reform

X.org and XFree86 Reform 01/23/2004 02:20 PM

Patent Reform?

Patent Reform? 06/05/2005 11:19 PM

I was reading Business Week and they had a little commercial section with ads from law firms. A couple of them were intellectual-property specialists and I snarled internally; whatever you think about patent law, as a longtime businessman I’m pretty convinced that the IP law profession, while it contains many good and intelligent people, is collectively a giant leech sucking money and time out of the community of innovators. Having said that, two of the lawyers’ blurbs jumped out at me; both about proposed US legislation which would institute a new process, within the PTO as opposed to the courts, for a quick challenge to the validity of a patent. This is important, because today, defending yourself against patent-infringement litigation is insanely expensive, $1M and up, way up. This is why most companies, in particular small companies, roll over and settle quickly when they get hit with this kind of lawsuit, no matter how dopey the patent is. Here are the two reports: Defending Against Patent Greenmail (which begins Patent “trolls” are currently the subject of much discussion...; most IP specialists don’t like to admit that patent trolls exist, but they do) and New USPTO Post-Grant Patent Opposition Legislation on Horizon. I think the high-tech business community ought to get behind this legislation, big-time. Everyone except the patent trolls.

Rockefeller Reform

Rockefeller Reform 05/26/2004 07:51 PM
AlterNet-28 minutes ago ... them on the phone. To learn more, she scanned The New York Times and typed "Rockefeller drug laws" into Google. Then she sent letters ...

This Is Reform? (washingtonpost.com)

This Is Reform? (washingtonpost.com) 08/14/2004 02:53 PM

Welfare Reform and Education

Welfare Reform and Education 12/17/2004 06:40 PM
Robert's Story; the Problem of Poverty in America Robert is in the third grade. He likes school, and he's pretty good at it. He started reading chapter books this year, and he likes that. He wishes he could go to school today, but he can't. He lives with his mom in their 1985 Mazda GLC. They get in trouble if they stay in one place for more than a few nights, so he can't take the school bus. This morning Robert's mom can't take him to school. She's too busy. This happens to Robert a lot. It makes him really sad. He remembers when he was in first grade he and his mom lived in an apartment. It wasn't a nice apartment, it kinda smelled funny, the carpet was a weird orange color, and the people who lived downstairs scared him. He didn't like it there, but now he just wishes they could go back. He doesn't understand why he and his mom have to be poor. One time he asked his mom, and she started crying. He doesn't ask her questions like that anymore. This is not an uncommon story. In 2003 there were 35.9 million people living below the poverty line in the United States of America, 1.3 million more than in 2002. In addition, there were millions living within the penumbra that surrounds 'official poverty', with incomes that fell above the poverty line but bellow the threshold for a decent standard of living.

Iran dissident says reform at end

Iran dissident says reform at end 02/15/2004 11:55 AM
A leading Iranian dissident writes from jail to urge people to adopt a policy of passive resistance.

Intel bureaus up for reform

Intel bureaus up for reform 07/11/2004 01:48 AM
Washington Times Jul 11 2004 5:35AM GMT

India calls for reform of the UN

India calls for reform of the UN 09/23/2004 01:22 PM
India's prime minister calls for urgent reform of the UN Security Council to make it a more effective global voice.

Reform likely on whaling process

Reform likely on whaling process 06/24/2005 07:06 PM
Support is now growing for a root and branch revision of the International Whaling Commission and the treaty which it administers.

Concern for 14-19 learning reform

Concern for 14-19 learning reform 09/27/2004 07:07 AM
A head teachers' leader is alarmed by a suggestion that reform of 14-19 learning in England might be toned down.

FTC calls for US patent reform

FTC calls for US patent reform 10/30/2003 12:36 PM
More hurdles, less backlog
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