The Worst Copyright Bill You’ve Never Heard Of
Never heard of SIRA? That’s the way Big Copyright and their lackey’s want it, and it’s bad news for you.
Simply put, SIRA fundamentally redefines copyright and fair use in the digital world. It would require all incidental copies of music to be licensed separately from the originating copy. Even copies of songs that are cached [...]
China vows to better protect copyright on Internet
The Chinese government has passed a new regulation to ban the uploading and downloading of Internet material without the copyright holder’s permission.
Under the regulation, effective from July 1, anyone uploading texts, and performance, sound and video recordings to the Internet for downloading, copying or other use, must acquire the permission of the copyright owners and [...]
More RIAA terror tactics
Police officers in Norfolk, Virginia, raided a record store called Dappa Don Clothing Company in March, confiscating several thousand dollars’ worth of mixtapes and charging the store’s owner with illegally “selling certain recorded devices.”
The raid was the latest in a nationwide crackdown on retailers who sell mixtapes – collections of hip-hop songs that DJ’s remix [...]
