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Google back in court for book deal
26 critics line up for legal counterblaste Google is in court later today New York to face critics of its agreement with US publishers to digitise the world’s books.…
Continue reading »Advertisers say new cookie law met by browser settings
Implied consent innit Advertising trade bodies have claimed that a new law passed this week by the European Parliament will not require website publishers to ask permission to put cookies on a user’s computer. They argue that browser settings will imply consent.…
Continue reading »Streaming Video Sites Should Be Blocked, Says Movie Producer
Another movie producer with another brilliant idea on how to thwart online piracy! At a conference organized by the German anti-piracy organization GVU, Max Wiedemann voiced his theory about eradicating piracy – having ISPs block access to streaming video sites that offer unlicensed full-length feature movies. According to the German film producer sites like Kino.to should be banned. Over the last year Germany offered ground for experimenting similar methods of blocking access to websites and with book publishers’ pressure for popular hosting services like Rapidshare to be shut down, industries join forces in an ever-increasing censorship.
Continue reading »Film producer: Let’s block access to streaming video sites
German movie producer Max Wiedemann has a plan to combat online piracy: He wants ISPs to block access to streaming video sites that offer unlicensed full-length feature films. Wiedemann proposed this type of ISP-based access control during an event organized by the German anti-piracy organization GVU, according to IT news site heise.de . Wiedemann told is audience that it would be “technically trivial” to implement such blocks and singled out German-language streaming media directory Kino.to as an example for a site that should be blocked.
Continue reading »JUDGE: Ringtone Not a Public Performance
American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) had sued Verizon Wireless demanding that it be compensated each time a person’s ringtone played in public, calling it a “public performance.” Back in June it was first mentioned here how the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) had begun suing mobile telephone companies with the argument that the playback of ringtones on a customer’s phone requires a public performance license, and that without one they are committing copyright infringement. “When a ringtone rings in ‘public,’ it is undeniably a “public performance” as those terms are defined in the Copyright Act,” reads a brief submitted to the court. Even further startling is that it argued that they are a public performance even if it’s switched to vibrate, turned off, or located at home.
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