untitled

href="http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/academics/courses/is296a-2/s05/pdf/GroksterOA.pdf">MGM
v. Grokster transcript is out. They really do seem to be arguing
for an active infringement doctrine. MGM lawyer: "It's not just the
absence of commercially significant noninfringing uses that demonstrates
contributory infringement."

href="http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/archives/000794.html">Congressional
testimony on interoperability.

href="http://www.theshiftedlibrarian.com/archives/2005/04/07/the_death_of_the_stereotype_that_libraries_books_only.html">Article
on libraries/digital info. There's another point here, though, that
the same high-thoroghput techniques they intimate will spread because of
Google could bring about a bloom of P2P piracy of books.

EZTree
takedown notice. Fulfilling an unmet market need for free just
ain't the business it used to be.

href="http://www.twice.com/article/CA515667.html?display=Breaking+News">Nearly
50% of infringers use networks other than P2P. This is a huge finding.

href="http://digitalmusic.weblogsinc.com/entry/1234000807038942/">LATimes
argues that CDs make more sense than DRM. Could this be the real
goal of DRM on CD? To prevent the analogy to the old way of doing
things as the Industry argues for greater control?

IM, P2P threats
increase.

href="http://www.thespartandaily.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2005/04/04/4251f60871a6d">"It
was like winning the lottery, but backwards," Vique said, referring to
the odds of being targeted among millions of users.

href="http://www.netmag.co.uk/features/default.asp?pagetypeid=2&articleid=35051&subsectionid=511&subsubsectionid=220">Video
on Demand.

29% of MP3 player
owners have downloaded a podcast.

href="http://www.dailyherald.com/business/businessstory.asp?id=29926">Label
sees P2P as an advantage.

Lower income
contries slowly move towards piracy enforcement.

href="http://www.corante.com/importance/archives/2005/04/06/videogame_golf_copyright_and_drunken_bar_patrons.php">Golf!=Golf.

href="http://www.corante.com/importance/archives/2005/04/05/new_york_common_law_copyright_protects_50year_old_sound_recordings.php">NY
High Court upholds what amounts to an extension of copyright.

href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/04/05/MNGM6C3CB31.DTL">SNIU
from the man who invented the Internet? "The new network, planned
for an Aug. 1 premiere, will enable Internet users to send video content
through the online system "to help us make the viewer-created content
that will be a large and growing part of what we put on the air," Gore
said. "

href="http://www.corante.com/importance/archives/2005/04/05/replacing_new_commercials_for_old.php">Finally,
a TiVo mod that doesn't hurt consumers and bolsters advertisers.

href="http://www.corante.com/copyfight/archives/2005/04/04/yacc_yet_another_cool_conference.php">DC
Policy conference.

href="http://www.slashstar.com/blogs/tim/archive/2005/04/06/IAmACopyfighter.aspx">Balance.

href="http://www.corante.com/copyfight/archives/2005/04/04/you_want_standing.php">Broadcast
flag defense.

href="http://www.michaelgeist.ca/resc/html_bkup/april42005.html">Copyright
Convergence.

--Ari