Copyright

I wish J.K. Rowling could hear the illegal but beautifully read net.radio performance of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince if she has not already. A TeleBlog reader directed me to...

This is important enough to print in full. I hope our European readers will write and email in protest of this proposed action: Today, organisations representing consumers, citizens and libraries around...

"Though Ministry spokeswizards have hitherto refused even to confirm the existence of such a place, a growing number of the wizarding community believe that the Death Eaters now serving sentences in...

Here is another movie-related story (or a continuation of the same story) about YouTube rights abuses, with implications for all electronic forms of physical media (including e-books). In a follow-up...

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act’s safe harbor provision makes it a lot easier for websites to make “fair use” of content than for humans, says an opinion piece by author Peter...

Here, from CNN. So what are the implications for Google's archive-related rival, the Open Content Alliance? And by the way, publishers aren't pleased, given their copyright-related differences with Google. Important update, Aug....

Would that J.K. Rowling and her publishers let the Potter books be available as affordable e-books. You already know my feelings on that score. Lower e-book prices, not just sheer availability,...

Others agree. Prof. John Edwards will most likely run in 2008 for the presidency of the United States. So why his continued silence on copyright? Have Hollywood donations rendered him mute,...

I might become a content seller in the new year! A fellow teacher turned me onto a neat little website called Teachers Pay Teachers, which everyone at school is addicted to....

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUEvRyemKSg&w=560&h=315] From TorrentFreak: In short, Doctorow argues that the copyright industry’s fight isn’t against copying, but against general-purpose computers. As more and more devices we buy are general-purpose hardware devices with custom...