Archive for October, 2008

Behind the Wassup 2008 Video

Business Week has a great piece on how the Wassup 2008 video was made for $6,500.

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October 29, 2008 Comments are Disabled News

Google Settles Book Search Litigation

Details on the settlement – which include $125 million payment and new sales of out-of-print books – here.

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October 28, 2008 Comments are Disabled News

The DMCA Turns Ten

The U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act turns ten today.  Postings here and here reflect on the legislation, while the EFF updates its report – Unintended Consequences: Ten Years Under the DMCA.

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October 28, 2008 1 comment News

Canadian Heritage Posts New Copyright Collective Report

Canadian Heritage has posted a new report by Craig Parks that surveys copyright management issues in the Canadian music industry.

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October 28, 2008 3 comments News

B. C. Court Rules Linking To Content Not Republication

A B.C. court has ruled that linking to allegedly defamatory content does not amount to a republication of the content.  The case arises from one of the Crookes lawsuits, this one involving both Wikipedia and P2PNet.net [full disclosure: Crookes is suing me with similar claims that include linking to websites […]

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October 27, 2008 3 comments News