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Lily Allen is OK with Fans Buying Her Burned CDs
After being at the core of the file sharing debate between artists and announcing her retreat from it later due to the “abuse” her blog was getting as a consequence of her views posted there, Lily Allen joins the issue again. This time she says that she is not against people getting burned copies of her CDs as long as they pay for them. “If someone comes up with a burnt copy of my CD and offers it to you for £4 I haven't a problem with that as long as the person buying it places some kind of value on my music,” she told Key 103 .
Continue reading »DMCA Coupon Flap Ends Nobody ‘Won’
A federal judge on Thursday rejected an online coupon-generating company’s bid to reopen a copyright infringement lawsuit against a North Carolina man who posted commands allowing users to print an unlimited number of valid coupons. Coupons, Inc., based in Mountain View, California, agreed in November to dismiss the case — a move that left unanswered whether defendant John Stottlemire’s actions were unlawful under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act . The 10-year-old law prohibits circumventing technology to work around measures to prevent the duplication of what Coupons claimed were copyrighted materials.
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