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Brad Brace of the 12hr isbn-jpeg project auctions off “2398 hi-res art file suitable for printing,” culled from 5000 Facebook friends. FB is not amused.

IPR ideology trickles down: A former South Dakota lawmaker convicted of [a bunch of awful stuff] has sent news organizations what he claims is a copyright notice that seeks to prevent the use of his name without his consent. A letter and an accompanying document labeled “Common Law Copyright Notice” said former state Rep. Ted [...]

A meets IPR.

Expanded: Jamie Love at Knowledge Ecology International has forced the Office of the United States Trade Representative to cough up the names of people who know what the US is secretly negotiating in the proposed multilateral Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. They are: People who’ve signed an NDA in order to see ACTA’s “internet text”: Emery Simon [...]

NYT pimps Disney (“Pisney?! Who is this Pisney?!”) claim that it “has given independent researchers access” to its archives without going to the trouble of talking with an actual independent researcher. Why do that when there’s precious space to devote to insideresque analysis of “Disney’s attempt to stage its own version of Comic-Con,” the “overt [...]

Appending a credit/URL to text copied from a webpage might even be seen as a convenience, but reporting that something was copied to a centralized service isn’t so good. Cf. the AP’s “Protect, Point, Pay” hijinks? (irr)

State-corporatist innovative process revealed: industry lobbyists bitching that the groupthinktank’s independent report they paid for includes independent opinions. In the linked article, Michael Geist, who first spotted the plagiarized passages, uses an excellent phrase: It’s equally telling, if not more important, on the copyright side. It’s a very clear confirmation that the kind of policy [...]

Stephen King, quoted in Print Books Are Target of Pirates on the Web,” (Rich, NYT, 11 May ’09): For some writers, tracking down illegal e-books is simply not worth it. “The question is, how much time and energy do I want to spend chasing these guys. [...] And to what end? My sense is that [...]

Some Slashdotter points in the right direction—Zombie Property Rights: But you do understand that the copyright law’s intent is to encourage the creation of new works. With life plus 50 years, there are untold numbers of authors dead only 10 or 20 years who might be willing to rise and take a crack at just [...]

Still from Florian Cramer’s Floppy Films version (silent) of Slumdog Millionaire: (nettime)

Stalder the critic (“Analysis Without Analysis,” Metamute, 28 Jul ’08): Tussle over copyright? Reading Shirky, you wouldn’t know there is one. This is probably the most glaring absence. Number of entries for copyright in the index of the book? Zero! In my view, this is inexcusable because it cuts right to the core of why [...]