Some of these go way back…
- Best Buy challenges FCC over analog TV sales penalty: If this continues it could become a defining case in the reach of the FCC.
- YouTomb: “YouTomb continually monitors the most popular videos on YouTube for copyright-related takedowns. Any information available in the metadata is retained, including who issued the complaint and how long the video was up before takedown. The goal of the project is to identify how YouTube recognizes potential copyright violations as well as to aggregate mistakes made by the algorithm.” Great idea!
- Fight shaping up over Oregon’s state law copyright claims: “State laws are not themselves copyrighted, of course, but Oregon claims that all the ancillary material in the Revised Statutes—including section numbers and headings—is copyrighted.” Can a body of law be useful without organization? Can a state copyright that organizational work product? I’d argue laws should be completely “open source” for reasons of transparency and legitimacy.
- How YouTube’s sucking up to Modest Mouse (and other giants of media):Â Uploads [to YouTube] of music videos from the band by non-official sources now carry a link reading “Contains content from Sony BMG…” Very interesting permissive, automatic copyright licensing.