journalism.berkeley.edu/projects/biplog -> journalism.berkeley.edu/projects/biplog/
You know those marketing guys say that when you offer small, medium and large, by far the biggest seller is medium. The tagline could read: "Like two espressos after lunch, with grappa. Though I must say that as I got to the end, I noticed what turned out to be a link to their " 14 File Sharing" category (it's to the left of the 15 Permalink which is to the left of the 16 Technorati cosmos link. For a split second, I thought he was going to share a piano file with me. I am discombobulated a little (you have no idea the kind of day I have had, what with 2 hours traveling 1 mile in the hot sun on the bay bridge because some 17 guy decided to jump off). Fred is joined by Jason Schultz (of 18 Copyfight and 19 Geeklaw) and Donna Wentworth (Founder and uber-bloggerati member of 20 Copyfight) on the sized " 21 deep" blog, and Ren Bucholz who's doing the 22 miniLink blog. Also, I've switched the blogroll at the right, to reflect these great blog additions. Posted by 23 Mary Hodder at 02:48 PM | 24 Permalink | 25 Comments | 26 TrackBack March 31, 2004 Extension on Early CFP Registration 27 7 More Days. The major tech policy conference of the year gets more expensive if you register after today. And with a program like 33 this, you can't justify *not* going to some of this (It's at the Clairmont Hotel in Berkeley). Posted by 34 Mary Hodder at 11:35 AM | 35 Permalink | 36 Comments | 37 TrackBack March 30, 2004 File Sharing Lawsuits At Berkeley 38 Well, 39 everybody 40 including 41 Mark Cuban (the owner of the 42 Dallas Mavericks who just started 43 blogging) is talking about music and copyright somewhere, it seems. Cuban has suddenly become very active on 44 Pho talking about the 45 Leahy- 46 Hatch bill 47 proposing to make file sharing criminal. And 49 Ernie Miller notes how this 50 puts Hatch on the side of porn companies. Moreover, these estimates are of moderate economic significance and are inconsistent with claims that file sharing is the primary reason for the recent decline in music sales. UC Berkeley has been notified that of the 52 532 lawsuits filed last week, there are 53 a few "yet-to-be-named" students. Apparently, 54 students aren't fazed (title of the article next to the headline in yesterday's Daily Cal about the suits). I love the quote in the 55 c|net article: "It's important for everyone to understand that 56 no one is immune from the consequences of illegally 'sharing' music files on (peer to peer) networks," RIAA President Cary Sherman said in a statement. I though we were offering two Donovan albums and a lifetime subscription to the (semi)winning Bears home football games in exchange for immunity. You go out for a cappuccino and come back to find they've totally rejected that offer. Where the law says that if you shoplift a CD from a store, you can max at up to a $1000 fine verses the $150,000 per song statutory limit for file-sharing. And to think they only raised our tuition 40% this year, and 30% last. Gosh, 57 Shatzie should get on the stick with Cary Sherman cause he's missin the boat (doncha love those mixed metaphors when discussing the two of them? Anyhow, they're going for the big bucks this time says My-Thuan Tran. The association has settled more than 400 cases so far, with an average settlement of $3,000 each. Right now the suits are in the John Doe Phase, so they're being sent to Berkeley who will then identify the students, after which the students will be served. Illegal Legal: Copying a CD onto your computer, an analog or digital tape, or special audio CD-R's for personal use. Illegal: Sharing those copyrighted files through peer-to-peer networks, instant messaging service or private local networks. Giving or lending burned CD's to others is also illegal. That is legal, and just because it's digital verses the analog tape mentioned above as legal, doesn't make the digital illegal. As long as it's non-commercial, it's okay to make a cd, or burn your iTunes or whatever, to share with a (real) friend as part of your fair use rights. Illegal: Uploading AND Downloading copyrighted music on peer-to-peer networks like Kazaa. So don't be trading on P2P networks unless the content is legally sharable, lest you want an expensive Cary Sherman education. Posted by 58 Mary Hodder at 01:44 PM | 59 Permalink | 60 Comments | 61 TrackBack March 25, 2004 China's Digital Future Conference at the JSchool Ap 30 and May 1 Info 62 here. From the invite: You are invited to a conference on "China's Digital Future" at the UC Berkeley campus on Friday & Saturday, April 30 & May 1, 2004, sponsored by the 63 Graduate School of Journalism. The conference features a keynote address by Stanford University Law Prof. Lawrence Lessig and presentations by many scholars, technologists, business people and journalists who are experts on China. We look forward to seeing you April 30 & May 1 in Berkeley for a stimulating two days of discussions. But then Jason points out that even if every suit got the RIAA a cool million, that figure would jump to just under five bucks. But I still think we need to hear from musicians and songwriters, and more than just those who make the big bucks and therefore get their viewpoints into the media. Donna Wentworth 80 sends news that some folks will be joining her: Elizabeth Rader, Ernest Miller, Jason Schultz, Aaron Swartz, and Wendy Seltzer. Posted by 85 Mary Hodder at 07:53 AM | 86 Permalink | 87 Comments | 88 TrackBack March 19, 2004 "You're Outsourced" Still Available Donald Trump is trying to trademark "You're Fired" as of 89 2/4/04. Anyway, just to confirm, people, this is a Trademark issue, not processes which get patented, or copyright 94 which is about expression. So that, you know, people don't confuse your clothing or casino products with You're Fired on them, with other people's casinos or clothing with You're Fired. Because God knows if some non-Donald casino was the You're Fired Casino (presumably to emphasize the loser aspect of the whole thing), Trump doesn't want us getting confused with his You're Fired Casino. Posted by 97 Mary Hodder at 08:49 AM | 98 Permalink | 99 Comments | 100 TrackBack March 17, 2004 Behavior Mod by Comcast, or Mickey Mouse Internet by 101 Farhad Manjoo/Salon (sub req or watch ad). Last August, the company sent him a letter telling him to quit it -- he was using the Internet too much. The firm said he was violating Comcast's "acceptable use" policy, that he was somehow abusing his service. This surprised George, because as far as he knew he wasn't doing anything illegal or unseemly online -- "We're not using porn sites," he says -- and his contract with the firm didn't spell out any limits on his Internet use. When he called the company, it gave him the "runaround" -- nobody would tell George specifically what he should do to bring his use back in line with Comcast's policies, other than that, as a general matter, he ought to consider using the Internet much, much less. The fact that Comcast would monitor his use and then tell him he was using his service too much when it's an unlimited service is disconcerting. Since the summer, Comcast has warned hundreds, possibly thousands, of customers of potential service termination due to high Internet use. The customers who receive these letters, people who'd always been told that their Internet service was "unlimited," find themselves in a Kafkaesque comedy of errors: The customers say that Comcast tells them they're using the service too much, but it won't give them any meaningful measure of how much is too much. But it gets worse, Comcast has clamped down on VPN system use by customers, their TOS says no to P2P of any sort, and they allowed AOL to sell it's high speed internet service over Comcast lines but only if they did not offer streaming video that directly competed with Comcast's offerings, and when other Comcast competitors and consumer groups demanded to have the FCC look at Comcast's secret deals as part of the Disney Merger, the CEO called Michael Powell and the issue was dropped. They are anticompetitive and working hard to maintain their monopoly services, among other things, by hiring Victoria Clarke, Donald Ru...
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