Tag: Copyright
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Data from one enforcement vendor, for instance, showed that takedown efforts increase sales of ebooks. But the automation has also meant that perfectly legal content has been flagged for takedown. This can be amusing when copyright owners flag their own content. But it’s less funny when legitimate work gets caught in automated sweeps. Techdirt’s Mike…
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MLRC’s first conference on Legal Issues Concerning Hispanic and Latin American Media is designed to provide lawyers from North America and Latin America a unique opportunity to meet and educate one another on the issues that arise in cross-border content creation, newsgathering, and distribution. PDF Agenda of this March 11th 2013 conference – and here’s the…
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The CJEU however decided in this case that while providing links to protected works constitutes an act of communication, that in order to violate the law the communication must be directed at a new public, according to the release. By a new public the court means a public that was not taken into account by…
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Fair use has also transformed the internet from a passive information library to an active, participatory, sharing web. People interact with information more meaningfully and passionately when they can transform it, review it, mash it up, and add their own individual perspectives to it — leading to a better internet for everyone (including copyright holders!).…
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‘Evidence-based policy’ has become a mantra of many governments that may determine, justify, illuminate or act as smoke screen for projected changes to a specific policy. In economic terms this means that net benefits should be calculated by estimating the expected future returns from a potential change discounted into the present value and compared with…
Sameer Padania 