In December, FCC Commissioner Deborah Taylor Tate gave a presentation entitled “From the Boardroom to the Classroom: Piracy Impacts and Solutions.” Her talk was sponsored by Penn Intellectual Property Group and the Center for Technology, Innovation, and Competition. Commissioner Tate focused on industry innovations to guard against piracy, explained the effect of “net neutrality” on …
Monthly Archive: February 2009
Feb 11
It’s All About Change: Fairey v. AP
Did Shepard Fairey, creator of the ubiquitous images that formed a central part of the Obama campaign, change a photograph by an Associate Press photographer enough to qualify for a fair use defense? A federal judge in Manhattan will ultimately decide the issue, but both images are posted here so that you can draw your …
Feb 05
International: Software Pirates – where do they all come from?
The Pirate Bay has just released a Google-powered map that tracks the number of IP-infringing connections per country. The TorrentFreak‘s “pirate bay map” records bittorrent communication, logging the locations to and from which its trackers are transferred. The map indicates the origin of the users who are connecting to its trackers, and it updates in …
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