Disney and the Joyce Estate have competition in the world of ridiculous over-enforcement of copyright. Step forward Harry Potter . There have been many, many legal disputes involving Harry. For example, several years ago now, Tim Wu wrote an entertaining piece in Slate called Harry Potter and the International Order of Copyright (with added links):
J.K. Rowling and her publisher [ Bloomsbury / Scholastic ] have launched an aggressive worldwide legal campaign against the unauthorized Potter takeoffs … [they] can use the courts in [ TRIPS ]/ WTO -compliant countries to club her Potter rivals.
Moreover, Warner Bros (the studio behind the Harry Potter movies ) takes stern action against cybersquatters on Potter-like domain names (including an infamous example where they threatened 15-year-old Harry Potter fan, Claire Field, with legal action, though they eventually backed down ). More recently, the same plaintiffs have soug...
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Ten years ago Tuesday, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act was signed into law by President Bill Clinton who said in a statement at the time that the legislation carefully balanced the interests of both copyright owners and users. A decade later, some policy watchers beg to differ.
In a report released to mark the anniversary, the Electronic Frontier Foundation documents the ways in which the watchdog group believes the law has harmed "fair use" of copyrighted content, free speech, ... more
Love it or hate it, but 10 years after Congress passed, and Bill Clinton signed, the controversial Digital Millennium Copyright Act, there’s no doubt that the law’s "safe harbor" provision cleared the way for everything from Digg to YouTube.... more
Love it or hate it, but 10 years after Congress passed, and Bill Clinton signed, the controversial Digital Millennium Copyright Act, there’s no doubt that the law’s "safe harbor" provision cleared the way for everything from Digg to YouTube.
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As we reported in September, Judge Robert Patterson ruled in favor of J.K. Rowling and Warner Brothers in the copyright case against RDR Books, publisher of the book version of the Harry Potter Lexicon website. RDR Books has now officially filed a notice of appeal . An actual appeal will follow. Past Leaky coverage of the trial can be found here . ... more
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Here we go again! Steven Vander Ark has filed an appeal to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in order to get his Lexicon book another hearing. He’s citing fair use, which the judge in the first case already threw out, stating that Vander Ark used too much of JK Rowling’s original material.
Personally, I think there’s pl... more
No longer will you have to wait for the Harry Potter MMO to play a little competitive quidditch. Apparently, some folks have adapted the rules so that we muggles can now play it. Here is a story on the Middlebury College vs. Princeton matchup: Just a note: it costs over $25,000 per year to attend Princeton. And yet this is how they spend their time.  ... more
Harry Potter Bücher begeistern durch einen außergewöhnlichen Aufbau der Spannung sowie der Kreativität die in dem Buch steckt.
So ist es auch kein Wunder, dass so viele Menschen alle Harry Potter Bücher zu Hause im Schrank stehen haben, und diesen gelesen haben.
Das dies nicht immer zutrifft, beweist folgendes Video:
Hier wurden Zeitungsausschnitte gesammelt, die erschreckend neue Tatsachen [...]... more
I’ve offered to speak at BarCamp Dublin . I’ve even got so far as a proposed title. It’s the one I’ve used as the title to this post. “Law of Blogs; Blogs of Law”. But I’ve not really got any further. So, if you have an inspiration or suggestions, I’d be grateful to have them.
Yes, yes; I do know that the suggested title is self-referentially post-modern. I just liked it. But I’ll change it if you come up with a better one.
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The Press Complaints Commission in the UK can change its mind. And the right of privacy can now be asserted on the beach as a result.
First, the change of mind. In 2000, the PCC held that newsreader Anna Ford did not have a reasonable expectation of privacy sufficient to restrain publication by OK! magazine of photos taken of her and her husband subathing on a private beach. This week, in an all-but identical case, the PCC held that model Elle Macpherson did have a sufficient ex... more
If Wired magazine were published in Ireland, would it be a periodical? Would its website be? Would the website be, even if there weren’t a magazine? And why do these musings matter? Well, they matter because only ‘periodicals’ will be subject to the Press Council proposed in the Defamation Bill, 2006 ; and whilst the defintion of periodical clearly covers print newspapers and magazines (such as Wired’s offline edition), and probably covers content on websi... more
Easy, PCC From: cearta.ie Post Date: 2007-02-10 16:13:57
Perhaps stung by the criticism of its docile passivity in the face of the Goodman affair, the Press Complaints Commission ( PCC ) in the UK has this week come to life, swinging into acting with at least three very important developments, covered in this post and the next two.
The first is a direct result of the fallout from the royal phone-tapping affair. This week’s Media Guardian reports that the
PCC plans to write to every newspaper and magazine editor to ask wh... more
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