As you pointed out the other day, not digitising the register of existing copyrights is a huge dereliction of duty by the Copyright Office, causing huge costs to anyone who wants to see if a work is orphaned or not.
We?re the post office, they tell us; who knows what?s in the brown-paper packages? But we know from America?s noble effort to stop child pornography, not to mention China?s ignoble effort to suppress online dissent, that it?s perfectly possible to track content.
The MPAA's Michael O'Leary showed support for regimes that censor the internet, by saying that "the internet isn't broken" in places like China and Iran
It's not FUD to say RIAA and MPAA calling for censorship is like China when they make that comparison themselves, with China as the example they want.
What they still get backwards is not selling the shows online immediately after UK airing. (or even before, for a further premium).
I wrote a post on the history of BBC mistakes in this area.
It doesn't write a law, but defers writing a law to to Secretary of State. It also adds in the 'likely to infringe' clause, and even a new clause that enables blocking of locations likely to facilitate access to locations likely to infringe, which requires remarkable clairvoyance from the judge, but is clearly aimed at search engines and other sites that point to files.
More analysis from Lilian Edwards
It's not just the Government who can apply for an injunction, it's any Copyright Owner. And the presumption is that can get their costs paid by the ISP.
No clear verification of copyright or 'penalty of perjury' is required.
I posted this video of my boys raking leaves with our puppy to 'California Dreaming', and got a WMG bot audio muting from YouTube.
I checked, and California Dreaming is owned by Universal, and is in the list of songs YouTube offered to replace my soundtrack with, so I appealed and they put the audio back.
So 'WMG owns all music' seems to be the default setting.
We're building exactly this as the indieweb
Mike, you should come along to indiewebcamp.com or the fortnightly Homebrew Website Club and see how far we have got with protocols for this.
Hang on a sec?
So anyone could write a takedown bot that sends DMCA takedown notices for all Warner content, as long as it doesn't purport to be from Warner?
Heard this one before
Back in 2002 the RIAA proposed that they be allowed to hack our computers to delete MP3s. It's the Implacable logic of DRM
Defining General Purpose Computers
is actually pretty rigorous - this is what Turing-complete means, and can be demonstrated mathematically.
Where's the register then?
As you pointed out the other day, not digitising the register of existing copyrights is a huge dereliction of duty by the Copyright Office, causing huge costs to anyone who wants to see if a work is orphaned or not.
Pro-SOPA people praised Chinese censorship
I cited Bono on this during the UK DEA debate:
At the SOPA hearings:
It's not FUD to say RIAA and MPAA calling for censorship is like China when they make that comparison themselves, with China as the example they want.
Re: high as a kite
I did thank John and Mark in the original blogpost (linked at the top)
The slogan has been changed. Original, somewhat less tendentious one, is on the Met site - here's the official image
How the BBC missed the point still
What they still get backwards is not selling the shows online immediately after UK airing. (or even before, for a further premium).
I wrote a post on the history of BBC mistakes in this area.
New clause isn't an improvement
It doesn't write a law, but defers writing a law to to Secretary of State. It also adds in the 'likely to infringe' clause, and even a new clause that enables blocking of locations likely to facilitate access to locations likely to infringe, which requires remarkable clairvoyance from the judge, but is clearly aimed at search engines and other sites that point to files. More analysis from Lilian Edwards
Sadly, the UK Govt's DE Bill has both of these in
http://bit.ly/ChinaBPI
The DE Bill compares badly to Magna Carta
http://epeus.blogspot.com/2009/10/baron-mandelson-and-magna-carta.html
Indeed, it looks like the BPI took Bono's advice on being like China when drafting the clauses they wanted:
http://bit.ly/ChinaBPI
Its worse than that
It's not just the Government who can apply for an injunction, it's any Copyright Owner. And the presumption is that can get their costs paid by the ISP.
No clear verification of copyright or 'penalty of perjury' is required.
I had a WMG takedown for a Universal song
I posted this video of my boys raking leaves with our puppy to 'California Dreaming', and got a WMG bot audio muting from YouTube.
I checked, and California Dreaming is owned by Universal, and is in the list of songs YouTube offered to replace my soundtrack with, so I appealed and they put the audio back.
So 'WMG owns all music' seems to be the default setting.
The original idea was Schneier's, or Street Perfromers
The Street Performer Protocol is a 1998 paper that describes the basics of this idea, while noting that it dates back years for public performances.
Sounds familiar
Isn't this exactly Paulo Coelho's strategy with his novels?
Searching Chinese sites in English
There is an experimental 'search chinese sites in english' that transaters the query and the results at google; here's one of Bunny's queries.
I'm sure they'd like to hear your feedback on how well this works.