Fall2009/Intellectual Monopolies Additional Material II

From OpenSourceSoftwarePractice

Criminalization of Copyright Infringement

• Let's Go Crazy
  • http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2007/07/mom-sues-universal-music-dmca-abuse
  • http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/08/judge-rules-content-owners-must-consider-fair-use-
  • http://www.eff.org/cases/lenz-v-universal
  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1KfJHFWlhQ
• ASACP vs Girl Scouts
  • http://www.steinski.com/blog/the_day_ascap_threatened_to_sue_the_girl_scouts_for_singing_around_the_campfire_barbies_hooker_origins_and_other_true_tales_of_copyright/
• The Magic Number 6
  • http://www.law.berkeley.edu/journals/btlj/articles/vol4/McGraw/HTML/text.html
  • http://cip.law.ucla.edu/song.html (UCLA Law Copyright Infringement Project)
    • http://cip.law.ucla.edu/cases/case_booseyempire.html
• The Magic Number 4
  • http://cip.law.ucla.edu/cases/case_northernking.html
• Happy Birthday To You
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Birthday_to_You
  • The song is currently set to pass in to the public domain in 2030.
  • Difference of one note with a precedent song, that is now in the public domain.
• Fast Fourier Transform to the Rescue (FFT)
  • http://cip.law.ucla.edu/cases/case_vargaspfizer.html
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reason_(program)

The Bright Side

• Magnatunes
  • http://magnatune.com/artists/albums/droptrio-bigdipper/

Lessig vs Valenti

http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/4135