Bookmarks for August 1st, 2008
Ma.gnolia bookmarks for August 1st, 2008:
- California judge rules Sprint’s early termination fees illegal | Crave, the gadget blog - CNET - Finally, some sanity. Now to make that worldwide!
- Canada seeks industry, not consumer input on secret treaty
- Opt-in or opt-out? Street View case echoes privacy debate
- Yahoo relents, gives coupons, refunds to music DRM captives
- holy astroturf Batman, whatever happened to disclosure!? - John Degen picks up on Geist’s failure to mention that the C-61 position paper adopted by the BC Civil LIberties Association was written by “Fair Copyright for Canada: Vancouver Chapter” (Fair Copyright for Canada is a Facebook mob started by Geist).
- Counterfeit Chic: LV, Sony Strike a Chord - “After hitting several false notes, Louis Vuitton and Sony BMG have reached accord on the issue of musicians who have “borrowed” LV’s trademarks to add a bit of glamour to their own products.”
- Dealers exploit aboriginal Australian artists, TV show reports - I always knew aboriginal art was an issue (see http://tinyurl.com/57d2xv), but this is disgusting.
- National Gallery leadership dispute over: spokeswoman
- Movie trade group sues 2 websites for copyright infringement - This law suit puts a bit more focus on the fact that the p2p websites are profiting from advertising on the websites.
- Significant and Controversial Proposed Amendments to Canadian Copyright Act - Torys provides legal advice services to CARFAC Ontario members. This is their summary of C-61, which sadly has no mention of impact to visual or media artists (probably because C-61 does very little for us, except brining photographers into the 20th (sic) century).
- CCA Bulletin 26/08- CTF: the CCA opposes the CRTCs main recommendations
