Intellectual Property
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- The Droplift Project
- Anti-copyright collective of musicians using samples from popular culture to create challenging and subversing audio collage. Information about fair use and copyright issues in music, along with free MP3 downloads.
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- NPR : DJ's 'Grey Album' Spurs Dispute
- DJ Dangermouse (Brian Burton) took vocals from rapper Jay-Z's "The Black Album," mixed them with instrumentals from The Beatles (known to all as The White Album), and came up with "The Grey Album." It wasn't made for commercial release, but the mixes got Internet play. EMI - the label controlling Beatles music - took legal action, and Web sites recently mounted a protest. Joel Rose reports. [7:42 streaming audio broadcast] (February 28, 2004)
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- I Want My MP3
- An open letter to lawmakers stating that musicians and singers must conform to technological changes and find new ways to make money off their talents. Asserts that propping up the old market paradigm will not work.
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- Students Fight to Save Napster
- While the RIAA has systematically targeted companies and even individuals with legal action, the people who use the Internet show their disapproval by flocking to the exact institutions the industry association is trying to shut down, and fighting colleges to keep them unrestricted.
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- End Software Patents
- A project working towards the elimination of software patents by assisting corporations that choose to challenge such patents in the courts, and by public education aimed at promoting a legislative solution. News, resources, and ways to help.
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- Internet Patent News
- Legal resources and tools for surviving the patenting frenzy of the Internet, bioinformatics, and electronic commerce
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- Patent Absurdity
- Offers a free movie that explores the case of software patents and the history of judicial activism that led to their rise, and the harm being done to software developers and the wider economy.
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- The Non-Patent Side of Software Patents
- Slideshow presentation exploring the implications of and criticizing software patents.
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- Association Européenne pour la Protection des Oeuvres et services Cryptés (AEPOC)
- The European Association for the Protection of Encrypted Works and Services, an organization of corporations in the digital television and telecommunications sector. The mission is studying the phenomenon of piracy in relation to encrypted works and services and research into all the legal, operational and technological methods for increasing the security and protection of conditional access systems.
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- The Register - Stealth Plan Puts Copy Protection Into Every Hard Drive
- Hastening a rapid demise for the free copying of digital media, the next generation of hard disks is likely to come with copyright protection countermeasures built in. (December 20, 2000)
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- Trusted Computing FAQ
- An FAQ by Ross Anderson covering the what, where, who, why, and how. (June 01, 2003)
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- CODE: Campaign for an Open Digital Environment
- An international coalition of civil liberties groups and consumer rights initiatives to protect the public's rights, innovation, and competition against the proposed European Union Directive on the Enforcement of Intellectual Property. Reports, news, key dates and letter to EU JURI Committee Members in several languages.
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- Chilling Effects Clearinghouse
- A project of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and of several university law clinics. The project aims to counter the chilling effects of overreaching "cease and desist" notices of intellectual property infringement.
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- Creative Commons
- A non-profit that offers an alternative to full copyright. Offering work under a Creative Commons license does not mean giving up copyright. It means offering some of an author's rights to any taker, and only on certain conditions.