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      YouTube to Offer BBC Videos

      Posted by Kathy from PC World

      It's a week of contrasts: BBC signs a deal with Google to distribute British TV to the world via the web. Contrast that with ABC/Disney/Academy Awards, which demanded that Oscar clips be removed from YouTube ... even though the Academy was not planning to re-use them (no DVD) nor was it showing them on its own website.

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    • Fair Use Bill Introduced In Congress

      Posted by Kathy from lockergnome.com

      A first-step counterpoint to the The Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998? U.S. Rep. Rich Boucher (D-VA.) and John Dolittle (R-CA) have introduced the "The FAIR USE Act" (long title: Freedom and Innovation Revitalizing U.S. Entrepreneurship Act -- don't ya love how bill names conveniently add up to a catchy acronym?).

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    • EMI may end digital copy protection

      Posted by Jeff from Times Online

      However, industry insiders believed that EMI was getting cold feet, because the plan could lead to a precipitate drop in its already flagging revenues. The decision would leave its entire catalogue without any protection in the digital era.

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      Steve Jobs blogs about DRM

      Posted by Jeff from BoingBoing

      There's a lot more Apple could be doing if they really wanted a DRM-free world. Jobs is trying to play both sides of the fence here - but at least he's firing a salvo at the record companies.

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    • Blu-Ray Cracked

      Posted by Kaerast from Schneier

      The Blu-ray DRM system has been broken, although details are scant. It's the same person who broke the HD DVD system last month. (Both use AACS.)

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      Giving It Away - Cory Doctorow Does

      Posted by Jeff from Forbes

      A tiny minority of downloaders treat the free e-book as a substitute for the printed book--those are the lost sales. But a much larger minority treat the e-book as an enticement to buy the printed book. They're gained sales. As long as gained sales outnumber lost sales, I'm ahead of the game.

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    Kathy comments on:

    YouTube to Offer BBC Videos

    Here’s my commentary on the Oscar bit plus a blurb on FAIR USE, a new bill in Congress.

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    10:14 pm 3/02/07
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    rhoehn comments on:

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    This is LONG overdue!

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    11:12 pm 2/28/07
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    Kathy comments on:

    Fair Use Bill Introduced In Congress

    Ars Technica is skeptical. They provide background on prior versions of this bill and how those bills imploded when they hit the wall that is the recording industry.

    Even the press release from Broucher’s office says:

    “In an effort to address the concerns expressed by content owners, the FAIR USE Act does not contain provisions which would have established a fair use defense to the act of circumvention.

    The legislation instead contains specific exemptions to section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act which do not pose a comparable potential threat to their business models.”

    Not holding my breath.

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    11:03 am 2/28/07
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