Underground Mind Workers Union Local #1
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This is the union hall of the independent mindworkers where we associate and discuss issues of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) in regards to digital content.
Any resources to help understand where things stand today, and how to protect our IPR into the future.
If you've paid your dues, come on in and get comfortable.
Any resources to help understand where things stand today, and how to protect our IPR into the future.
If you've paid your dues, come on in and get comfortable.
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Jobless and homeless, blogger scores Elle jobSix months ago, Brianna Karp found herself living in an old truck and camper she inherited after the suicide of a father she barely knew. On Monday, her life became a 21st century fairytale when she turned her blog about homelessness into a plum internship for the fashion bible Elle magazine. T...
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High court won't block remote storage DVR - Yahoo! NewsHollywood studios and television networks have lost a Supreme Court bid to block the use of a new digital video recorder system that could make it cheaper and easier for viewers to record shows and watch them when they want, without commercials. The justices, in an order Monday, say they will ...
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Kayak to Bing: Stop Copying Us! - Update | Epicenter | Wired.comKayak, the popular multi-airline airfare search engine, thinks Microsoft Bing’s new travel search engine looks so much like its own that it’s confusing Kayak users. The travel search company sent Microsoft a legal letter last week telling them to cut it out, Wired.com has learned. Microsoft ...
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Top French legal body blocks Internet piracy law by AFP: Yahoo! TechFrance's top legal authority Wednesday struck down a key provision of an Internet piracy law that would cut off offenders from the web, in an embarrassing blow for President Nicolas Sarkozy. France's opposition Socialist Party had asked the Constitutional Council to rule on the legality of the ...
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Real: studios, DVD-CCA "illegal cartel" squeeze out fair use - Ars TechnicaRealNetworks has filed legal counterclaims against the DVD Copy Control Association and all the major movie studios, claiming that the studios conspired to eliminate competition in the market for fair use copies of DVDs. The company says that the studios abused their power by refusing to grant ...
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2Beijing vendors fight counterfeiting crackdown - International Herald TribuneLike corporations who stole ideas or property (the one and only "right" to weave clothe or produce salt from the sea, intermittent windshield wipers, genes from indigenous peoples and plants, etc.), China's counterfeiters claim "We have a right to steal for a living too!"JDP added 10 months ago
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2Obama Administration Mulls Constitutionality of Copyright Act | Threat Level from Wired.comMulti-million dollar jury awards against companies - meant by juries to be both recompense for the plaintiff and deterrent against similar future behavior - are regularly reduced or overturned on appeal as being "excessive". So it would be exceedingly odd (and inconsistent!?) should such ...JDP added 10 months ago
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2EU, not content to double music copyrights, now looks to video - Ars TechnicaIn truth, it is NOT about helping musicians but rather about putting more money into corporate coffers - all the while having the public pay for that both in the cost of music and in enforcement - further eroding the compact for public use after a REASONABLE period of monopoly.JDP added 10 months ago
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2Obama 'Hope' Artist Sues AP In Copyright Flap | Threat Level from Wired.comWill preemptive suits become required to protect the "fair use right"?JDP added 10 months ago
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8Where do we stand on Internet Copyright Law?EXCELLENT! You raise many an interesting point. Not sure if you've read through or are a member of the following: http://www.twine.com/twine/118flv72k-3y2/underground-mind-workers-union-local-1 http://www.twine.com/twine/1yqzbg7d-18s/digital-rights-management These two twines deal .... .•∞º˙ added 11 months ago
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