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08.18.09 | Business Strategy, IP & Legal

How to Launch an Intranet: Penn State Outreach Case Study.

05.29.09 | IP & Legal

Blogola: The FTC Takes On Paid Posts - BusinessWeek

05.19.09 | Business Strategy, IP & Legal

Should Ad Networks Pay Publishers For Stolen Content? The Fair Syndication Consortium Thinks So.

04.26.09 | Business Strategy, IP & Legal

Gawker - Debunking the AP's Aggregation Aggravation

04.08.09 | Industry Shift, IP & Legal

Copyright Holders Challenge Sites That Scrape Content - NYTimes.com

Copyright Holders Challenge Sites That Scrape Content – NYTimes.com

03.08.09 | Editorial & Programming, IP & Legal

Online Piracy Costing Publishers Millions, Study Says - Forbes.com

11.14.08 | IP & Legal

Google to Digitize Newspaper Archives

(via NYTimes.com)

09.08.08 | IP & Legal, Products & Services

Critic: Wall Street Journal copied Boston Globe's photo blog

(via Poynter Online)

08.18.08 | IP & Legal

 
French cinephiles are illegally downloading from the Internet as many films as they pay to see in theaters. This according to a new study from the Association Against Audiovisual Piracy (ALPA) that was–My God, THE IRONY–itself leaked to the Internet without its creator’s knowledge or consent. One of the largest studies of its kind, the ALPA effort found that 13.5 million films were illegally downloaded in May, while box office ticket sales for that month were 12.2 million. On average, more than 10 million copies of films are illegally downloaded in France every month.

(via All Things Digital: Zut Alors! Illegal Downloads Top Box Office Sales in France | John Paczkowski | Digital Daily | AllThingsD)

08.07.08 | IP & Legal

 
American University’s Center for Social Media published a “Code of Best Practices” this month, which gives 6 situations of fair use for online video, along with analysis and limitations for each. * Commenting or critiquing of copyrighted material * Use for illustration or example * Incidental or accidental capture of copyrighted material * Memorializing or rescuing of an experience or event * Use to launch a discussion * Recombining to make a new work, such as a mashup or a remix, whose elements depend on relationships between existing works

Playing fair in online video | News Videographer

07.24.08 | IP & Legal, Theory & Practice

Miro, a project of the Participatory Culture Foundation, or PCF

07.19.08 | IP & Legal, Theory & Practice

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