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| Thursday, June 15, 2006 |
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Public realm? What public realm? 
| | In the eight years since the DMCA's passage, however, piracy has not decreased, and hurdles to lawful uses of media have risen. The Motion Picture Association (MPA), the international arm of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), estimated worldwide losses because of piracy to be US $2.2 billion in 1997 and $3.5 billion annually in 2002, 2003, and 2004. |
| | Meanwhile, entire consumer electronics categories have been wiped from retail shelves. If three or four years ago you didn't buy a digital video recorder that automatically skips commercials, you're out of luck; that feature is not in such products today. Television executives brought litigation that bankrupted the company offering DVRs with these user-friendly features, because skipping commercials potentially undermines their ability to sell commercial time. |
| | Copyright is being turned from a limited-term incentive designed to encourage creative artists to a broadly scoped transfer of wealth from the public to the private realm. As the industries that generate copyrighted materials seek control over not only their works but also the devices on which we watch, listen to, and remix them, copyright law is turning into technology regulation. |
| | Depressing, important stuff. Read it. |
Great piece
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| | This morning I got my first invitation to publish one of my photos in a NowPublic story. While NowPublic has been around for a year or so, this was the first time it showed up on my radar. (Which is to say my inbox and/or aggregator.) NowPublic found the pic amidst my Flickr foto collection, or so said the email, sent within Flickr, from NowPhoto's Director, Contributor Relations. |
| | To participate, I had to sign up, which I did. |
| | So now it is also here, where it serves as "footage" for a story from news.yahoo.com. I think it's not a real NowPublic story until others contribute text that adds to what yahoo provides already. Something like that. Still looking around there. |
| | Anyway, it's interesting to find myself pulled into the Citizen Journalism mill. |
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