Pirate Bay Judge Deemed Unbiased: Retrial Denied
The Swedish Court of Appeals has determined that Judges can’t be called biased simply because they support the law.
Bill Backs Payment To Musicians For Radio Play
Songwriters get paid every time one of their songs is played on the radio; the Performance Rights Act (H.R. 4789) would do the same for the musicians who played on the recording. With income from CDs and download sales on the wane, they could use the money. Under current law, musicians get a big fat [...]
How Harvard Law Threw Down The Gauntlet To The RIAA
[via arstechnica] Law professor Charles Nesson and John Palfrey, director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society (which Nesson co-founded), made their position clear. “Recently, the president of the Recording Industry Association of America, Cary Sherman, wrote to Harvard to challenge the university administration to stop acting as a ‘passive conduit’ for students downloading [...]
Judge: Illegal Downloads Don’t Equate To Lost Sales
US District Judge James P. Jones has ruled that copyright holders cannot equate each illegal download with a lost sale. Just because somebody downloaded your song, doesn’t mean that they would have purchased it otherwise. Practically what that means is that you cannot seek restitution based on the amount that hypothetically would have been gained [...]
How To Keep The RIAA Off Your Back
There are a couple options for you to keep the RIAA off your back: 1) Don’t share copywritten files. OR 2) When the RIAA drops a lawsuit in your lap, just don’t show up and wait for them to give it up… like this.
First Sale Doctrine and Used MP3 Sales
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I found this article on ArsTechnica and it’s a good follow up to my post on bopaboo, the used mp3 store.
It unveils a few more details that I didn’t know about in my initial post, including the application of the first sale doctrine in a digital media world. The first sale doctrine was initially drafted in 1908 and essentially said that the purchaser of a good is entitled to sell it without permission of the original owner, publisher, or copyright holder as long as no additional copies are made.
