Welcome to the world of Big Copyright: Paul McDonald looks at the new regime of national, regional and global industry alliances policing intellectual property in screen media.
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Tags: copyright, FACT, intellectual property, media industries, piracy, telecommunications
Posted in From Nottingham and Beyond | Comments Off on The Rise of Big Copyright: Content Protection and the Formation of Anti-Piracy Alliances
An appeal of fair use case Cariou v. Prince (2013) has implications far beyond the art world, into the digital and other forms of media, while also raising the issue of what is moral in fair use, not just legal.
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Tags: appeal, appropriation, art, circuit court, copyright, culture, Deborah Batts, district court, Fair Use, Google, Koons, law, Patrick Cariou, postmodern, Richard Prince, transformative
Posted in Perspectives | Comments Off on In Fair Use, Freedom Does Not Equal Progress
Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Tags: Aereo, Arrested Development, China, copyright, Deanna Durbin, Dreamworks, George Jones, Google Glass, IllumiRoom, Iron Man 3, Netflix, neurogaming, Ray Harryhausen, Steven Soderbergh, The Onion, Xbox, YouTube
Posted in Celebrity/Stardom, Celebrity/Stardom, Current Events, Film, Film, Games, Games, Global, Global, Industry, Industry, Internet, Internet, Music, Music, Politics, Politics, Technology, Technology, TV, TV, What Are You Missing? | Comments Off on What Are You Missing? Apr 28 – May 11
Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Tags: Comcast, copyright, digital media, Disney, FTC, FX, FXX, GDC, HBO, Hollywood, Hulu, industry, News Corp., streaming, Supreme Court, television, TV, upfronts, Variety, video games
Posted in Columns, Current Events, Industry, What Are You Missing? | Comments Off on What Are You Missing? March 17-March 30
Ten media news items that you might have missed recently.
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Tags: A&E, ABC, Academy Awards, Billboard, Cablevision, CBS, copyright, DirecTV, Dish Network, Facebook, Google, Hollywood, independent film, Kickstarter, music, piracy, PlayStation, Sony, television, Time Warner Cable, Viacom, visual effects, YouTube
Posted in What Are You Missing? | Comments Off on What Are You Missing? Feb 17-March 2
Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Tags: apps, Cannes, copyright, e-readers, Facebook, Google, magazines, mobile technology, movie theaters, music, newspapers, Pandora, piracy, politics, social media, Spotify, television, Twitter
Posted in Columns, What Are You Missing? | Comments Off on What Are You Missing? May 13-26
Building on Monday's post, a consideration of individual educators and our personal stakes in the Georgia State copyright decision.
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Tags: copyright, education, Fair Use, Georgia State, law, university
Posted in Current Events, Internet, Perspectives | 2 Comments »
While the limited “wins” for the plaintiff have likely made future cases of this type more trouble than they are worth, the wider implications of the case are more concerning.
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Tags: copyright, education, Fair Use, Georgia State, law, university
Posted in Current Events, Industry, Internet | 7 Comments »
Whatever you’ve been doing on the internet in the last few weeks, chances are you ran across something about SOPA. And for good reason—SOPA might just be the most dangerous internet legislation the US government has ever considered.
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Tags: censorship, copyright, intellectual property, internet freedom, net neutrality, PIPA, policy, social media, SOPA, U.S. Congress
Posted in Film, Industry, Internet, Music, Politics, Technology, TV | 2 Comments »
Ten (or more) media industry stories you might have missed recently.
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Tags: Apple, BAFTA, Blockbuster, copyright, digital distribution, DVD, Facebook, Flickr, Google, Hollywood, independent film, iPad, Microsoft, MPAA, music, Netflix, piracy, porn, television, Twitter, video games
Posted in Columns, What Are You Missing? | 1 Comment »
Ten (or more) media industry stories you might have missed recently.
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Tags: awards, Blockbuster, copyright, DVD, Google, Harry Potter, Miramax, mobile gaming, MPAA, music, MySpace, Netflix, news, newspapers, paywalls, piracy, television, Twitter, Viacom, video games, wii, Xbox, YouTube
Posted in Columns, What Are You Missing? | 4 Comments »
The ACTA retreat is indicative of a larger crisis in how media policy works today. Specifically: we have no idea how media policy works today.
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Tags: acta, copyright, intellectual property, policy, policy sphere, policymaking
Posted in Global, Global, Industry, Industry, Internet, Internet, Perspectives, Politics, Politics, Technology, Technology | 3 Comments »
Ten (or more) media industry stories you might have missed recently.
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Tags: Blockbuster, copyright, digital media, Google, Hollywood, independent film, internet, magazines, music, Netflix, newspapers, streaming, television, video games, YouTube
Posted in Columns, What Are You Missing? | Comments Off on What Are You Missing? Sept 12-25
Some good news came from the battlefield that is media and technology policy recently: some important fair use rulings that help to hold off the ever expanding clutches of copyright.
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Tags: Apple, cell phones, copyright, DMCA, DRM, DVD, Google, mobile technology, policy, YouTube
Posted in Current Events, Industry, Internet, Technology | 3 Comments »
Ten (or more) media industry stories you might have missed recently.
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Tags: 3D, Africa, awards, Bollywood, Cannes, copyright, Facebook, file sharing, film festivals, Hollywood, indie cinema, MPAA, music downloads, music industry, online gaming, privacy, television, Twitter, video games, YouTube
Posted in Columns, What Are You Missing? | 2 Comments »