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Explaining copyright with a drawing by Tim Marman

While obviously a bit of an oversimplification, I think Erik’s drawing really does a great job of capturing the base dynamics of how copyright works ( via Dan ).   Basically, anything in the left circle requires permission; anything in the middle...

Being better than free when copies are ubiquitous by Tim Marman

The digital world fundamentally changes what a copy means for copyright. I wrote about this in the past from the legal perspective, suggesting an implied license to reproduce and a greater reliance on other rights. Kevin Kelly has a great post up about...

Friday Fun: Hillary's inner Flick by Tim Marman

Tim Lee on TechDirt discusses the copyright implications of this Slate video . The copyright discussion is interesting and worth revisiting next week, but I figured for this edition Friday Fun I'd share the video if you haven't already seen it. (It helps...

Scoble, Facebook and Data Ownership by Tim Marman

I've sort of ignored the whole Scoble/Facebook fiasco, with people arguing on both sides who "owns" the data. Jimmy Gutterman misses the point a bit , because Facebook has already opened up the social graph through the Facebook Platform API. What they...

Arguing Intelligently about Copyright by Tim Marman

Dare has a great rant on copyright . A key purpose of giving authors and other content creators exclusive rights to their intellectual property is to enable them to be rewarded financially from their works for some time before allowing these creations...

Understanding the Cablevision DVR lawsuit by Tim Marman

While I agree with Mark Cuban that the lawsuit is a mistake , I thought it was worth discussing why - from a legal perspective - the network DVR is an issue. Copyright gives the owner a limited monopoly over a few aspects, most notably the ability to...

Was DRM-free music an Apple innovation? by Tim Marman

Some people have tried to paint the recent announcement by Apple as example of Apple innovating and Microsoft following . Headlines like " Microsoft changes tune on selling DRM-free songs " are simply misleading - none of the technology companies truly...

First Life is refused a C&D by Tim Marman

Marty's post reminded me about this great anti-C&D from Linden Labs. This notice is provided on behalf of Linden Research, Inc. (“Linden Lab”), the owner of trademark, copyright and other intellectual property rights in and to the “Second Life” product...

Would you trust Zamzar with your data? by Tim Marman

Kevin writes about Zamzar , a free web-based service that converts audio, video and documents from one format to another (via Download Squad ). Sounds cool, but would you trust them with your sensitive data? I don't know about you, but I barely trust...

TWiL is finally out, and it's excellent by Tim Marman

The first episode of TWiL (This Week in Law), Denise Howell 's new podcast on the TWiT network, is (finally) out . It is excellent, which should come as no surprise given how good her previous efforts with Bag and Baggage and Sound Policy were. This episode...
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