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Copyright litigation threatens innovation

According to the article:

"As unlikely as it sounds, the most important issue in new technology has become copyright law.

Instead of reports on new developments, the high-tech press is buzzing with details of court cases based on intellectual property. And the sooner we stop listening to the sanctimonious invocations about protecting artists, the better we will be prepared to understand what is really happening."
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Why Hollywood Is Winning Its War

According to the article:

"In November, after a long, controversial battle, the Federal Communications Commission unveiled its proposal for the "broadcast flag," a technology that protects the high-resolution programs shown on digital TV from being shared on the Internet. The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and big-name consumer-electronics outfits such as Sony (SNE), Matsushita (MC), Toshiba, and Hitachi hailed the FCC's move as a smart compromise between consumers' right to make copies of movies and TV programs for personal use and protecting content owners' intellectual property."
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Copyright and Fair Use

According to the article:

"Without competition, an industry can stagnate due to high prices, slow product delivery and limited product innovation. Recent lawsuits that invoke the Digital Millennium Copyright Act seek to curb competition and therefore threaten to bring about those conditions. Passed in 1998, the DMCA was written to limit Internet piracy. But a provision of the law—Section 1201—prohibits individuals from circumventing technological measures erected by copyright holders to protect their works. It is this section that corporations are invoking to kill competition."
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Copywrong

According to the article:

"Artists steal. It's a well-known fact. Blues musicians built upon the tradition of other blues musicians playing on the same circuit, and rock musicians built upon their music in turn, sometimes appropriating wholesale their songs and styles. Writers, it's been said, choose from a limited number of plots and write the same story over and over, just tweaking the details. Nothing is entirely original, yet artists make original work out of the culture they're immersed in. "Ain't nothing new under the sun," says rapper Phonte of emerging Durham hip-hop group Little Brother. "Everything's been done before. For the most part, in every art form, every innovation comes out of some form of imitation.""
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Calif. Readies for New Movie Piracy Law

According to the article:

"Sneaking a camcorder into a movie theater will soon be a crime in California under a new law designed to protect both copyrights and the livelihood of thousands of movie industry workers."
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Hollywood losing the battle against pirates

According to the article:

"Hollywood's all-out war against movie piracy is turning into a big-budget bomb, with illegal copies of virtually every new release -- and even some films that have yet to debut in theaters -- turning up on the Internet."
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