http://digital-rag.com/index.php?topic=medialevy Digital Rag - Copyright and ACTA admin@pacdat.net admin@pacdat.net Copyright 2010 The Digital Rag glFusion Tue, 02 Mar 2010 19:33:57 -0800 en-gb http://digital-rag.com/article.php/TelephoneVsInternetCommonCarrier http://digital-rag.com/article.php/TelephoneVsInternetCommonCarrier Tue, 02 Mar 2010 19:29:55 -0800 http://digital-rag.com/article.php/TelephoneVsInternetCommonCarrier#comments Richard Pitt Copyright <p><a href="http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/4829/125/">The most recent</a> &quot;<a href="http://blog.die-linke.de/digitalelinke/wp-content/uploads/ACTA-6437-10.pdf">leak</a>&quot;(pdf) of the ACTA (Anti-counterfeiting Trade Agreement) neg... http://digital-rag.com/trackback.php/TelephoneVsInternetCommonCarrier http://digital-rag.com/article.php/MoralRightsCopyrightLicensePublishers http://digital-rag.com/article.php/MoralRightsCopyrightLicensePublishers Sun, 28 Feb 2010 08:08:14 -0800 http://digital-rag.com/article.php/MoralRightsCopyrightLicensePublishers#comments Richard Pitt Copyright <p>Sometimes you just have to push back against those who don't get it. The publishing business is in general decline. Self-publishing is rising and society is moving away from following the publisher and toward following the individual writer. So... http://digital-rag.com/trackback.php/MoralRightsCopyrightLicensePublishers http://digital-rag.com/article.php/CBC-LicenseContent http://digital-rag.com/article.php/CBC-LicenseContent Sun, 31 Jan 2010 09:33:39 -0800 http://digital-rag.com/article.php/CBC-LicenseContent#comments Richard Pitt Copyright <p>Cameron McMaster has just <a href="http://cameronmcmaster.wordpress.com/2010/01/29/cbcs-new-licencing-plan-pay-to-print-email-and-blog-and-outsource-enforcement-to-american-copyright-witch-hunting/">posted an excellent in-depth article on how t... http://digital-rag.com/trackback.php/CBC-LicenseContent http://digital-rag.com/article.php/CutPiracyOrRedefineIt http://digital-rag.com/article.php/CutPiracyOrRedefineIt Fri, 29 Jan 2010 07:48:50 -0800 http://digital-rag.com/article.php/CutPiracyOrRedefineIt#comments Richard Pitt Copyright <p>European Union Commissioner-designate for the Internal Market, Michel Barnier, has set a new EU priority policy goal: the 'eradication of online piracy' according to an ... http://digital-rag.com/trackback.php/CutPiracyOrRedefineIt http://digital-rag.com/article.php/Anti-ACTAonFacebook http://digital-rag.com/article.php/Anti-ACTAonFacebook Wed, 27 Jan 2010 14:58:46 -0800 http://digital-rag.com/article.php/Anti-ACTAonFacebook#comments Richard Pitt Copyright <p>I've just done another search for ACTA on Facebook - over 30 so far and counting:</p> <p>At this point <a href="http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=20323922655">I've joined one and now am one of the admins </a>- I don't care if you join one o... http://digital-rag.com/trackback.php/Anti-ACTAonFacebook http://digital-rag.com/article.php/FreeManyMeaningsToNewspaperBusiness http://digital-rag.com/article.php/FreeManyMeaningsToNewspaperBusiness Wed, 27 Jan 2010 08:53:47 -0800 http://digital-rag.com/article.php/FreeManyMeaningsToNewspaperBusiness#comments Richard Pitt Copyright <p>The latest idea from the various newspapers that have been &quot;forced&quot; to go online with their publications is to put up what is called a &quot;pay wall&quot; where their news is hidden from general view behind a members-only for-pay mem... http://digital-rag.com/trackback.php/FreeManyMeaningsToNewspaperBusiness http://digital-rag.com/article.php/WhyNotDMCAforCanada http://digital-rag.com/article.php/WhyNotDMCAforCanada Wed, 20 Jan 2010 00:01:28 -0800 http://digital-rag.com/article.php/WhyNotDMCAforCanada#comments Richard Pitt Copyright <p>The United States, through the use of their &quot;<a href="http://techdirt.com/articles/20100115/1549467778.shtml">might is right</a>&quot; abilities in world trade and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Counterfeiting_Trade_Agreement">... http://digital-rag.com/trackback.php/WhyNotDMCAforCanada http://digital-rag.com/article.php/ArtistsTellTheirSideInCopyrightFight http://digital-rag.com/article.php/ArtistsTellTheirSideInCopyrightFight Tue, 19 Jan 2010 00:01:39 -0800 http://digital-rag.com/article.php/ArtistsTellTheirSideInCopyrightFight#comments Richard Pitt Copyright <p>I was reminded as I was looking back over my Blank Media Levy writings about a <a href="http://janisian.com/article-internet_debacle.html">an article written by Janis Ian back in 2002</a>. Janis, in case you don't know, is a musician who has ha... http://digital-rag.com/trackback.php/ArtistsTellTheirSideInCopyrightFight http://digital-rag.com/article.php/PublicDomainDayJanuary1 http://digital-rag.com/article.php/PublicDomainDayJanuary1 Sat, 02 Jan 2010 09:09:54 -0800 http://digital-rag.com/article.php/PublicDomainDayJanuary1#comments Richard Pitt Copyright <p>January 1 is public domain day. Each year the works of artists and authors and others whose works fall under the copyright act in the countries of the world who died X years ago fall into the public domain. The problem is that X is a number tha... http://digital-rag.com/trackback.php/PublicDomainDayJanuary1 http://digital-rag.com/article.php/ACTA-ChangeInternetForever http://digital-rag.com/article.php/ACTA-ChangeInternetForever Tue, 01 Dec 2009 09:00:55 -0800 http://digital-rag.com/article.php/ACTA-ChangeInternetForever#comments Richard Pitt Copyright <p><a href="http://digital-rag.com/article.php/AntiCounterfeitingTradeAgreement">The Anti-Counterfeiting and Trade Agreement (ACTA)</a> treaty negotiations continue in secret - but the word is leaking out and commentary continues to pile up as peo... http://digital-rag.com/trackback.php/ACTA-ChangeInternetForever