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Hyundai booth raided at German tech fairOpen in New Window
Natalie Weinstein writes, "Police seized flat-screen TVs from the South Korean company's booth as visitors watched...The raid followed Thursday's German court ruling that Hyundai IT and other companies were planning to display unlicensed patented tech at the fair, Reuters said." read more »
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Judge rules copyright holders must consider 'fair use'Open in New Window
"A federal judge on Wednesday refused to throw out a case against Universal Music for allegedly abusing the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, ruling that copyright holders must consider fair use..." read more »
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Fair use gets a fair shake: YouTube tot to get day in courtOpen in New Window
Timothy B. Lee reports that Federal Judge Jeremy Fogel has turned down a request by Universal to have a lawsuit against it dismissed. Universal is being sued by Stephanie Lenz, a mom who posted a YouTube video with Prince music in the backgrund, with assistance from the EFF, for an illegitimate DMCA request to YouTube. read more »
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Fair Use Vs. Free Speech in the Internet Age: The Lane Hartwell ProblemOpen in New Window
Erick Schonfeld handles what is becoming somewhat of a landmark discussion - the issue of fair use of photographs on the internet. Especially Lane Hartwell's recent complaints concerning the popular read more »
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Misunderstanding Copyright Law And Ruining Everyone’s FunOpen in New Window
Michael Arrington and many others aren't happy with a photographer - Lane Hartwell - who issued take-down notices to large video sites over a viral parody video based on Billy Joel's We Didn't Sta read more »
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Growth of P2P leads IETF to debate bandwidth usage fairness.Open in New Window
The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has an interesting discussion on the table. Non-interactive users are getting additional bandwidth at the cost of interactive users. As bandwidth provided b read more »
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