Monday

I bought eight movies this weekend. Six were 'classics...' Jane Eyre, Heidi, Gulliver, and were $1 each. The others were two for $15, and one of those was a 'classic,' the original Frank Sinatra version of the just-released The Manchurian Candidate. The Sinatra film cost over seven times as much as other films made a decade or two earlier, but $7 is still pretty reasonable. This same weekend that I obtained 8 movies for $21, I went to see the remake of Manchurian with my girlfriend. That cost me $16, and it was also worth it. Some day the MPAA members will wake up and realize it is not selling a product, it is selling a service. That might be the same day that the RIAA realizes that the future money will all be in concert ticket sales.

Substantial noninfringing use.

FCC wants out of copyright?

Amazing technological illiteracy in state AG P2P warning.

The Simpsons and copyright.

JibJab a Guthrie family hit.

Fair Use for FairPlay?

RIAA hits licensing snag.

Newton's works to be available on the web, thanks to copyright expiry.

This just in: overly-agressive IP regimes stifle competition. Disney undeterred. Nor the Olympic committee.

Congress sees the virtues of fair use when it has to foot the bill.

--Ari