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US Library of Congress: Copyright Is Destroying Historic Audio

[From the you’re-telling-us dept.][link]

>The report also highlights the problems posed by the rather complicated history of US copyright law. “All U.S. recordings, both commercially released and unpublished, created before February 15, 1972, are protected by a complex network of disparate state civil, criminal, and common laws,” the study explains. The consequence is that all sounds recordings made before 1972 will have their copyright expire in 2067 – 95 years after the placement of these recordings under federal protection in 1972. This means that the oldest sound recordings in the US dating from 1890, will only enter the public domain after 177 years.

[link]: http://www.osnews.com/story/23888/US_Library_of_Congress_Copyright_Is_Destroying_Historic_Audio “US Library of Congress: Copyright Is Destroying Historic Audio”

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Ars Technia on Indie Filmmakers’ P2P Lawsuits

[It’s not just for the MPAA anymore.][link] Lots of these films probably made more from the lawsuits than they did in the theater.

[link]: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/06/the-riaa-amateurs-heres-how-you-sue-p2p-users.ars “The RIAA? Amateurs. Heres how you sue 14,000+ P2P users”

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Music Publishers Want Royalties For 30 Second Song Samples

[Not a story from the Onion][link]. I don’t know where to start on this, I really don’t.

[link]: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10355448-93.html “Music publishers: iTunes not paying fair share | Digital Media – CNET News”

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TechCrunch Reports last.fm DID Give User Data to the RIAA

[More exactly, CBS (Last.fm’s parent company) got this user data by not telling Last.fm they were going to turn it over][link]. Last.fm responded to TechCrunch’s initial allegation with a blog post titled “[TechCrunch are full of shit][shit].”

I wonder how Last.fm feel about the acquisition right now.

[link]: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/05/22/deny-this-lastfm/ “Deny This, Last.fm”
[shit]: http://blog.last.fm/2009/02/23/techcrunch-are-full-of-shit “Last.fm blog: TechCrunch are full of shit”