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Nothing to celebrate on Public Domain Day 2010 in the US
What child has not sat starry-eyed around the fire, dreaming of the goodies to come on January 1—Public Domain Day? The thought of new books and movies and music coming out from copyright is enough to send sugarplums dancing through heads, unless you live in the US in 2010. In which case, you have nothing to celebrate, since nothing is entering the public domain this year.
Continue reading »Musicians dropped from Digital Britain debate
p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- “Mystery” surrounds the decision to uninvite the Featured Artists Coalition from a Digital Economy Bill dog-and-pony-show — sorry, debate — organised by The Telegraph and Virgin Media, says MusicWeek . “A panel of digital experts, including UK Music chief executive Feargal Sharkey, shadow minister for culture Ed Vaizey and FAC acting chief Jeremy Silver, had been due to take part in an online discussion about the key issues raised by the legislation,” says the story. ISP Virgin has just has just announced it’ll introduce DPI spyware that “analyses anonymous ISP traffic data” to supply information on the total volume of file-sharing” p2pnet posted yesterday.
Continue reading »Alleged Pirate Walks Free Under New Anti-Piracy Law
The first court case testing the new IPRED anti-piracy legislation has proven the law is not the silver bullet the anti-piracy lobby hoped it would be. The law is intended to make it easier for copyright holders to obtain the personal details of alleged file-sharers from ISPs, but the ISPs are not handing information over without a fight. This April, five book publishers handed a request to a local court for information on the owner of an FTP-server that allegedly stored more than 2000 audio books.
Continue reading »Mother of Purdue Bomb Hoax Suspect Sues for Son’s Release
The mother of the 16-year-old North Carolina boy arrested for allegedly making a bomb threat against Purdue University has filed a federal habeas corpus petition demanding his release, and attacking the government’s authority to prosecute anyone. In the 14-page brief filed Friday in federal court in Indiana, where the teen is being held without bail in a juvenile facility, Annette Lundeby reasserts her claim that her son was with her in church at the time of the February 15 telephone call that summoned a bomb squad and evacuated the Mechanical Engineering building at Purdue. But Lundeby, acting as her own attorney, also levels a series of more exotic arguments.
Continue reading »RIAA ‘bait & switch’
p2pnet news view P2P | RIAA News:- The American Bar Association now knows more about the Joel Tenenbaum and Brittany Kruger cases than it used to. Joel Tenebaum — pictured on the right with his father, Arthur and mother, Judie — is the Boston student famously represented by a team of Harvard Law students . But before the Harvard group took his case up, he was defending himself with the help of his mother , a lawyer who specializes in copyright and internet law.
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