Copyright

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- Copyright
- Copyright Term Extension Act (the "Immortal Mouse Act" or "Mickey Mouse Protection Act")
Pete Ashdown's wiki: Copyright

2009-11-20 :more:talk: Britain's new Internet law -- as bad as everyone's been saying, and worse. Much, much worse. § “Peter Mandelson, the unelected Business Secretary, would have to power to make up as many new penalties and enforcement systems as he likes. And he says he's planning to appoint private militias financed by rightsholder groups who will have the power to kick you off the internet, spy on your use of the network, demand the removal of files or the blocking of websites, and Mandelson will have the power to invent any penalty, including jail time, for any transgression he deems you are guilty of.” more...
2009-05-27 :more:talk: The founding fathers had copyright right § “The Copyright Act of 1790 – the first passed by the U.S. Congress – set copyrights for a single term of 14 years, with renewal possible for a second term of 14 years if the author was still alive. Today copyrights last for the life of the author plus 70 years, which in practice means that almost nothing created during your lifetime will be out of copyright for as long as you or your children are alive.” more...
2009-02-16 :more:talk: Join New Zealand Internet blackout protest against insane copyright law § “Reason didn't work and the Parliamentary process failed, which is why we in New Zealand now have arguably the world's harshest copyright enforcement law.” more...

2007-03-16 Colorado Woman Sues To Hold Web Crawlers To Contracts: if she succeeds in her suit, web crawlers would have to get permission from each site before crawling it; searching as we know it would be drastically curtailed.
2000-01-24 3 Copyright Lawsuits Test Limits of New Digital Media: cases against MP3.com, a DVD-playing hack, and a RealMedia-stream recording application