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r.i.p., p2p

June 27, 2005

File-trading networks can be liable-court

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earnest watch

June 8, 2005

A critique of a "balanced approach" to said reasonable use by Earnest Miller.

CDT's 'Balanced Framework' for Copyright Completely Unbalanced: Corante > The Importance of... >

Just in case you're not catching this guy on Corante... He's on a roll.

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fair use less. rethink (ip) more.

June 6, 2005

iPods and Time-shifting: Fair Use, Personal Use and the Digital Copyright Morass: Corante > Between Lawyers >

Dennis Kennedy gets it. This is something I struggled with as I too have contributed to the confusion by lumping in "typical or reasonable use" with something constructed to achieve something quite different. "Typical and reasonable" have been at the heart of much of the points made on this site to-date.

So "fair use" as depicted in this site and so many others is a bit of a misnomer. Kennedy's recommendation of calling it something different rather than stretch fair use beyond its original bounds sounds spot on.

So perhaps this site's name will make sense after all, as we begin to hone in on this yet-to-be-named consumer licensee right and move away from the misapplication of fair use.

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Fairuselinks

June 5, 2005

Sorry for the lack of posts lately, but here's one of the more interesting news items for the week on 5/30:

Sony continues DRM drive on music CDs... But they won't tell on which ones...

Hopefully some pending legislation mentioned earlier on this site will help clarify this.

How is it that companies can have such utter contempt for their customers... and still have customers?


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