The Pirate Bay has shipped out of Sweden following the threat of legal action, but the Pirate Partyâs ability to react and shift the site onto safer ground shows that the international movement cannot be rattled, party founder Rick Falkvinge said.
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A proposal by the Prince George’s County Board of Education to copyright work created by staff and students for school could mean that a picture drawn by a first-grader, a lesson plan developed by a teacher or an app created by a teen would belong to the school system, not the individual.
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In 2011 the European Union revised its copyright laws to extend copyright to 70 years. The change is not yet in effect but will be by 2014. And there’s a catch, a “use it or lose it” provision: recordings cannot benefit from the 20-year extension unless they were published before the 50-year term expired.
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“…Befuddled judges in New Zealand, seeking to discover just how far down the rabbit hole government officials went in their efforts for an intellectual property case, now want to know the whole story…”
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“China is the world’s largest payer for patent rights, for trademark rights, for royalties, and one of the largest for buying real software,” the minister responsible said.
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The UN’s Internet Governance Forum had a gathering to discuss rethinking copyright, in which WIPO made the case that it should lead “multi-stakeholder” discussions on how to reform copyright. WIPO, of course, has a history of having a rather one-sided view of copyright and who the “stakeholders” are.
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A Virginia court sentenced Willie Lambert, 57, of Pennsylvania, to 30 months in prison and Sean Lovelady, 28, of California to 23 months. Lambert was ordered to pay 9,514 in restitution and Lovelady ,500.
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Fashion designs aren’t eligible for copyright protection. If one designer’s work captures the imagination of consumers, other designers are free to slavishly copy it without getting permission or paying compensation. Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is determined to change that
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Encouraging free sharing of files on the Internet, including copyrighted material, is an official platform of Germany’s Pirate Party. This week, however, a senior member of the party has been policing illegal downloads of a book she published through a subsidiary of Random House. Will the party continue to promote its “information must be free” line?
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Google on Friday said it is tweaking its search formula to give higher priority to legal content and sink rankings for websites hit with piracy complaints.
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