Paul Mazursky is deliciously sleazy as Morris Levy, the president of Roulette Records (and copyright thief).
Although it would have made even more when instead of design patents everyone asserted trademark and copyright.
Well look no further than Librarian of Congress and copyright czar James H.
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Services like Netflix and iTunes enjoy broad popularity and copyright holders are getting a healthy cut of their revenue.
Lessig is also the author of canonical and subversive books on subjects as diverse as the Internet and copyright law.
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The EG8, organised by President Sarkozy, is addressing privacy and copyright issues as a prelude to the real G8 summit.
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Trade organisation the Recording Industry Association of America sued Napster in December, claiming that the website promotes piracy and copyright infringement.
On its website USCG offers to help film industry leaders, producers and copyright owners to recover losses due to illegal downloading.
The foundation seeks the return of any profits, as well as the drastic damages prescribed by law for trademark and copyright infringement.
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Intellectual property - such as patents, and copyright - is another bugbear.
Our Founding Fathers recognized the enormous benefits of such a system, which is why they placed the patent and copyright clause in the Constitution.
There's no need to dole out the conspiracy theories just yet though -- the majority of these events are linked to criminal investigations and copyright infringement complaints.
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Another set of obstacles surrounds privacy, security and copyright protection.
"You are about to join fellow film industry leaders, producers and copyright owners in recovering reasonable cash settlements from the unlawful downloading of your copyright film, " the website reads.
Authorities around the world have been cracking down on file-sharing and copyright infringement, and The Pirate Bay is one of the biggest targets, especially since the Federal Raid on Megaupload.com.
Through these initiatives, World Book and Copyright Day is more relevant in the UK than ever before, with new technology and literacy issues now impacting at the heart of the democratic process.
On May 7th the first round of a three-part fight between Oracle and Google over patent and copyright claims relating to the Java programming language ended in a decision that denied outright victory to either firm.
In addition to the EULA and copyright allegations, Apple's complaint against Psystar has claims for inducing copyright infringement and infringing on Apple trademarks by advertising non-Apple machines as compatible with OS X which is exactly Open Tech's ploy here.
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Noting ASEAN's commitment to the ASEAN Intellectual Property Rights Action Plan 2011-2015, we looked forward to the progress resulting from cooperation and capacity-building in fighting trademark counterfeiting and copyright piracy and to the development and strengthening of intellectual property rights regimes.
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However, Mr de la Mora also pointed out that the settlement "is the fruit of a US legal process, so outside of the US such initiatives could very well appear through the partner programme of Google, where we have ongoing relationships with publishers and copyright holders".
Four men, including Megaupload Ltd. founder Kim Dotcom, were arrested in New Zealand on charges including conspiracy to commit racketeering, conspiracy to commit copyright infringement and criminal copyright infringement.
Astonishingly, the district judge held that the DMCA shielded YouTube from liability, even while conceding that a jury could very well find that YouTube and Google knew about and tolerated copyright infringement (and that they generated profit from the infringement).
Quite similar to other gripes brought against the outfit in the past, this dispute claims that XM's service "constitutes pervasive and willful copyright infringement to the overwhelming detriment of copyright holders, legitimate online music services and, ultimately, consumers, " but we're still scratching our heads on the "consumers" bit too.
There are also the matters of how government should prioritize copyright enforcement, and what tradeoff we should strike between enforcing copyright laws and keeping legitimate Internet activity unrestricted.
As an international foundation which supports library consortia in transitional and developing countries to negotiate and advocate the wide availability of electronic information, eIFL.net will not only identify issues in copyright relevant to libraries in developing countries but also develop a scalable and transferable awareness raising and training programme of activities about the challenges of copyright and related issues in the digital age.
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And, with appropriate updating of copyright and licensing frameworks, cross-border flows of copyrighted material can be an opportunity for copyright owners, not a threat.
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Publishing and libraries normally governed by copyright and fair-use doctrine would be specifically affected.
That "see no evil" answer isn't likely to please movie studios and other copyright holders.
Generally speaking, a patent protects an idea, and a copyright protects an expression of an idea.
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