20090701 Interview with Copyrights Reform Advocate

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Q&A: Charles Nesson

Q: What does that mean for the record companies? A: I believe the recording companies have great skills to offer artists, and there may need to be some reshuffling in the way those skills are passed around and the ways in which revenue is returned. Q: You want to webcast the proceedings. Why? A: We see ourselves as representing the public interest. And what a fantastic opportunity, to tune in on a case being litigated by all this high-powered talent.

http://www.law.com/jsp/iplawandbusiness/PubArticleIPLB.jsp?id=1202431215523 The gullible politicians still in the pockets on monopolies. UK anti-filesharing law proposed for 2009/2010

The UK government has put an anti-filesharing law on its legislative programme commencing this autumn. The law is based on the Digital Britain report, which includes proposals to make the regulator, Ofcom, oversee protocol and website blocking. Will it contravene the Telecoms Package and how should it be seen in light of the French Conseil Constitutionel decision?

http://www.iptegrity.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=369&Itemid=9

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Unravelling the Canadian Copyright Policy Laundering Strategy

The Conference Board of Canada plagiarism and undue influence story - which with the Board's report and overdue apology to Curtis Cook will now go on hiatus until new reports are issued in the fall - has obviously attracted considerable interest.  Looking back, while plagiarism is rare, it is the public airing of the copyright lobby policy laundering effort that is the far more important development.

http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/4079/125/ http://www.stallman.org/archives/2009-mar-jun.html#28%20June%202009%20%28Copyright%20lobby%27s%20propaganda%20machine%20exposed%29 "The copyright lobby's propaganda machine exposed: it creates and funds multiple organizations that cite exaggerated claims from each others' reports. "Exaggerated claims are one part of their system. Propaganda terms, such as calling copying "piracy" and "counterfeiting", and calling copyright "intellectual property", are another part. To repeat those terms without denouncing them as invalid gives the copyright lobby support."