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"It's the opportunity for anyone to create businesses outside of the few companies who already control the copyrights that is really at risk with this rate-setting".
The Chinese government warned Thursday that it would strictly enforce laws against unauthorized software in 2011, accelerating a campaign to enforce software copyrights that has slowly gained momentum in recent years.
Because of the disagreement, the European Union essentially avoided the issue in a sweeping new directive of digital copyrights that is expected to pass the European Parliament on Wednesday.
The distributor asked for a ruling that Auto Hop "does not infringe any copyrights that could be claimed by the major networks, and that Dish, while providing the Auto Hop feature, remains in compliance with its agreements with the networks," according to a news release from the company.
As a practical matter, the consequences could be enormous, both for those with stakes in copyrights that are running out and for the growing community of people -- represented by the plaintiffs in this case -- trying to use the Internet to expand the boundaries of the public domain.
For those who think that narrative art forms are in a state of crystalline stasis it's worth taking a slightly longer view: film is only just over a century old, the novel as we commonly understand it a mere two centuries old – the copyrights that protected them are about 150 years old.
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Google also touches on issues — privacy, concentration of power, copyright — that tend to draw scrutiny.
It's not just convenience but copyright that's playing a part in this growing trend.
The Trans Pacific Partnership, although billed as a trade agreement, includes provisions on intellectual property and copyright that are usually outside the boundaries of trade, critics say.
The newly adapted book for the Broadway version of "Porgy and Bess" — but not the songs — will likely gain a new copyright that could be licensed.
"But the copyright that would protect it would be very thin, and only protect them against someone who virtually copies it".
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