Copyright: The Visual Matrix. This is the updated version recently seen at metaLAB @ Harvard's openLAB!
Ars Technica – Law and Disorder
- NSA head defends spying, says it has disrupted more than 50 plots
- BuzzFeed sued for $3.6 million over fairly boring soccer photo
- FCC’s new chairman wants to end ban on cell phone unlocking
- US, Russia to install “cyber-hotline” to prevent accidental cyberwar
- Google wants secret court to grant publication of two data points
Techdirt
- Hollywood Studios Keep Saying Its Employees Must Get Paid, And Now May Be Forced To Pay Its Interns
- Warning Letters Under UK's Three Strikes Plan Unlikely To Be Sent Out Before 2016 -- If Ever
- Public Outcry In Taiwan Kills Their Version Of SOPA
- WIPO: Informal Economy Innovates In The Absence Of Intellectual Monopolies
- DailyDirt: Augmented Vision
The Art Law Blog
- "Some unutterably depressing reading"
- The other 90 cents are held in the public trust
- "[Michigan Attorney General] Bill Schuette says in a formal opinion released Thursday that the artwork 'is held by the City of Detroit in charitable trust for the people of Michigan.'"
- "There ought to be some type of criteria developed to articulate the public interest and policy goals with regards to assets"
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Posts Tagged ‘ fixation ’
Pinning Down Digital Media
Technologists are doing awesome things these days. Copyright, and infringing copies, were easy to understand back in the day, but how many copies exist for fleeting moments while stuff is flitting around the internet?
Copyright and YOU
Perhaps people will start realizing why it's weird that Facebook claims rights in your photos, and why SOPA was so sketchy that Wikipedia and Google blacked out their sites in protest.
Video Games: Fixation 101
When most people think of a video game fixation, it conjures up images of a teenager spending hours and hours staring into a screen. Fixation means something much different within the law. To qualify for copyright protection a work must be “fixed in a tangible medium of expression.”
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