There’s been a flurry of posts and comments on a topic I’ve long been watching, which is the status of copyright and syndication technologies. It’s arisen this time in the context of a project that I’m involved with outside of my Harvard work, called Top10 Sources (see my disclosures for more; it’s important to note … Read more
Recently, adult publisher Perfect 10 sued Google for copyright infringement. (I posted a lightly redacted version of the complaint along with an early analysis of the lawsuit, here). Now, word is that Perfect 10 has asked the judge for a preliminary injunction against Google. Perfect 10 has also sued Amazon.com. These lawsuits, along with similar … Read more
The entertainment industry and big technology companies, often at one another’s throats in Washington, should be able to get along. In a digital age, after all, they need one another if they are both to thrive. They both got something to cheer about in the Grokster ruling handed down earlier today. The Supreme Court threaded … Read more
Apparently unanimously held against Grokster, Streamcast. AP has the story. Justice Souter’s majority opinion is here.
How many hard-drives of reporters and bloggers this morning contain variants of the following, pre-written, anticipating: “Today, the United States Supreme Court handed down its long-awaited ruling in the Grokster case, holding that… This opinion marks a watershed in the epic battle over peer-to-peer file-sharing. Its effects on innovation will be far-reaching. Experts said they … Read more
The American Association of University Press, via its executive director Peter Givler, has written to our good friend (and long-time Berkman affiliate) Alex Macgillivray to quarrel about Google’s extraordinary effort to digitize books from university libraries. Mr. Givler’s letter, obtained by BusinessWeek, includes the following two statements, among many others: “The common mission that unites … Read more