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Online Hitler parodies suffer censorship

donal brown April 22, 2010

Constantin Film has used the Content I.D. filter provided by YouTube to remove the Hitler parodies regardless of whether they constitute “fair use.” -db Electronic Frontier Foundation Commentary April 20, 2010 By Corynne McSherry One the most enduring (and consistently entertaining) Internet memes of the past few years has been remixes of the bunker scene from the German film, The Downfall: Hitler and the End of the Third Reich (aka Der Untergang). EFF Boardmember Brad

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Seattle: Photographer falls into legal soup with photo of public art

donal brown February 21, 2010

You would think that a sculpture commissioned with public funds and displayed in a public place could be photographed and the photo published, but Mike Hipple found himself sued by the sculptor who claims the exclusive right to reproduce the work and create derivative work from it. -db Suffolk Media Law Commentary February 17, 2010 By Justin Silverman To photographer Mike Hipple, the claim is baseless. The photo he took about 10 years ago of a

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Will it Work?: New German proposal for copyright system to save journalism

donal brown November 2, 2009

Citizen Media Law Project blogger Arthur Bright argues that Germany’s proposal to charge for journalism content using a system similar to that used by the movie and music industries is fraught with difficulty and will only delay the inevitable. To survive, says Bright,  journalism must develop a workable business model. -DB Citizen Media Law Project Commentary October 30, 2009 By Arthur Bright It’s tough being a publisher these days. Of course, no one is having

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Organization for digital rights establishes new website to attack internet censorship

donal brown October 27, 2009

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has established a website “Takedown Hall of Shame” to call attention to internet censorship through what they say are “bogus copyright claims or other legal threats.” -DB Electronic Frontier Foundaton Press Release October 27, 2009 SAN FRANCISCO – Websites like YouTube have ushered in a new era of creativity and free speech on the Internet, but not everyone is celebrating. Some of the web’s most interesting content has been yanked from

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New laws proposed to save newspaper industry

donal brown July 23, 2009

In the face of the shrinking revenues for print journalism, some are suggesting new laws, including ones that would restrict linking and that would create a federal law enshrining the “hot news” doctrine. -DB MediaShift July 21, 2009 By Jeffrey D. Neuburger As newsroom staffs continue to shrink and newspapers go out of business at an alarming rate, the difficulty newspapers have experienced in gaining economic traction online has been blamed on blogs and websites

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