The mashup cuts up and splices audio from many Disney movies to explain the intricacies of US copyright law and the fair use doctrine. It takes the works of “the very folks we can thank for nearly endless copyright terms” and flips them to argue against longer copyrights and attacks on fair use.
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The United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office (UKIPO) recently published a report called the “UK intellectual property awareness survey 2006″. The report provides information on the state of intellectual property awareness in the UK for firms of all sizes in all sectors of industry.
According to the survey, big companies are more IP aware than small businesses. […]

DailyLit.org is a new service that sends literary texts (and non-fiction works) to subscribers in email-length junks at a time, daily by default. As of now DailyLit only includes royalty-free works (such as “War and Piece”, it comes in 675 parts, “Phaedra”, 18 parts, or Freud’s “Dream Psychology” (57) and the Communist Manifesto (13)). […]

The “Copyright Subgroup” of the “High Level Expert Group” has published its “Report on Digital Preservation, Orphan Works, and Out-of-Print Works. Selected Implementation Issues”.
The main point is, that the group proposes to uphold the principle of “rightholders’ consent”. However, the recommendations “deal with digital copying for the purpose of preservation only”. So they don’t give […]