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I see on your website (http://octopusintelligence.com) that you're using many different ways to promote your book from excerpts to web banners to downloadable interview clips. And you've created not one but three trailers for you novel. What impact do you think book trailers have or could have on...
NBC just doesn't get it. Still. Tape Delay by NBC Faces End Run by Online Fans By BRIAN STELTER Published: August 8, 2008 NBC, which owns the exclusive rights to broadcast the Olympics in the United States, spent most of Friday trying to keep it that way. NBC's decision to delay broadcasting the...
Michael read about a new restaurant near my house called Runzas on the Run. We were very excited to have some familiar eating. We were even more excited that it was local and expected the Runzas would be much tastier and fresher than the fast food version. They were. But sadly, after the article ran...
According to this new story David Beckham's new employer has stated that they want to use the Guardian Angel Tattoo design on Beckham's back for advertising purposes. However this will land them into all kinds of legal trouble? How you might ask? Many people who get a tattoo think that they own the...
Experimenting with a remix of Paul Robinette's (aka Renetto) DMCA hip hop song and video about getting his videos flagged for copyright violations (remixed with permission). Distributed by Tubemogul.
Bloggers often pull or take images from other blogs or websites and perhaps do not give much thought to the copyright on those images. Part of that cavalier attitude may come from the lack of "prosecution" for infringement. The information below comes from a FAQ page provided by Blogger and it's a...
According to an interview with Intellectual Property Attorney, Edward Greenberg, the following guidelines are necessary to legally protect your copyrights. In order to sue for the illegal use or infringement of your images, you MUST have registered the images with the U.S. Copyright Office. The good...
Judge Orders YouTube to Give All User Histories to Viacom By Ryan Singel July 02, 2008 | 7:16:54 PM Google will have to turn over every record of every video watched by YouTube users, including users' names and IP addresses, to Viacom, which is suing Google for allowing clips of its copyright videos...
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Once again, our politicians have completely failed us by listening to those well-paid advisors and lawyers of media distribution companies who are interested in lining their own pockets with even more money than those who actually represent the rights of artists and content creators. The woefully...
Creative Commons is a non-profit organization which provides free licenses to copyright holders to use when releasing their works on the web. The idea is to avoid current copyright law issues when dealing with the sharing of information. CC sort of clears the clutter and confusion of copyright...
SpokeLit Bicycle Wheel Light Link: Nite Ize The SpokeLit is an LED lighting device which you can attach to any bicycle wheel (with a 3-cross spoke pattern) which glows as a lighted circle when you ride on your bike, to announce your presence to other traffic in dark conditions. Available in Red,...
UPDATE: Lessig was apparently successful in this suit. And another big win today for the Stanford CIS project ...a New York Supreme Court (that's the lower court in NY; the highest Court is the Court of Appeals) has denied Yoko Ono an injunction to stop the distribution of a film that uses a clip of...
According to this story on faceoff.com, the CBC- home of 'Hockey Night in Canada', will no longer be using the signature anthem used at the beginning of the telecast. The reason? Goddamn fucking COPYRIGHT issues! Are you kidding me?? This is a song that is iconic of hockey culture in Canada. A song...
http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Music/05/30/music.radiohead.prince.ap/index.html The above article is about how Prince performed Radiohead's song, "Creep", at the Coachella music festival. Some fans put videos of the performance on YouTube. Prince's people complained and got the videos taken off of...
Meg is making the case against changing copyright laws to help chefs. I don't even know where to begin. The idea that a change to copyright law would spur chefs to new levels of creativity seems spurious to me. The lack of money to be made from soup is not due to a dearth of soup innovations. It's...
A restraining order has been issued by the Delhi High Court on a Mumbai-based company that prevents it from making or selling products using Disney characters on a plea by Disney Enterprises Inc. This is a priority of the Walt Disney Company in its Asian plans. One of the key stumbling blocks to...
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