This week 's Favorites contribution comes from Richard, who' s from the UK, but hopefully forgive me for the removal of the alien 'u' s "from the word" Favorites ".
This is the first time that I 've done to your favorite post, so it's a bit of an adventure for me. Be decided I 've, with the "Good News" started because there was actually a lot that week.
First, on the legal front, there are a number of good decisions in the courts. In an echo of what is happening ACS law in Britain at the beginning of the year Right Haven a number of times, was beaten, and there are certain probability that this could go further than just lose the case. There are (as I write) is actually three stories on Techdirt, but the biggest (and most commented) is this one. The crucial point about this particular story is that the judge has not only Right Haven for lack of standing rejected, he also pointed out that even if Right Haven had Are they still on the grounds of fair use to lose. Unfortunately, the comments on this story are largely inundated with irrelevant arguments, but it can be up to a small number of useful contributions by only insightful comments.
My second favorite piece of legal good news came earlier this week with the Decision in New York, the safe harbors may apply in fairly broad sets of circumstances . It is really important that the creep of secondary liability is arrested before it goes too far, and this decision takes a sensible line in the sand.
A different kind of good news is, if someone who previously built a reputation for IP maximalism takes a new direction. This category has the somewhat unusual combination of JKRowling and Mexican Congress . The Mexicans have apparently decided ACTA is, what a surprise, since Mexico 's copyright extreme length of life of 100 rejected. JK Rowling 's good news is a step in ebooks without DRM. Given its history, that's something to be celebrated.
Of course you can 't everything be good, so I've decided that the \ institute " Victor Meldrew Award "saw And the characters themselves as" "(for the outside of the United Kingdom or not the TV character, was his slogan" I don 't believe it! \ Normal person in a world full of idiots "). Right Haven numbers in this category in the form of a bizarre argument made by "Plessy Ferguson 'that the Haven Right decisions somehow threaten open source licenses. Clearly understand the author of this argument didn 't, copyright, open source licenses or the Right Haven verdict, because it makes no sense, one of these. Right Haven lost because they have the right, without trying to transfer to sue another exclusive transmission rights. Open source licenses don 't even try to transfer these rights. The copyright for each component of an open-source system will remain with its original author (except as expressly to someone else, such as the FSF allocated in a separate transaction). Finally, copyright law does not, that you keep the rights to all parts of a program to sue for a violation of license terms. You only have the rights to keep some of it. Unfortunately, many commentators didn 't understand these points seem to either, so the comments were full of "teaching material"!
On a side issue in relation to Right Haven 's handling of Stephens Media, it seems to me that the transfer of the right to sue only one possible scenario that follows. Someone violated the copyright (or instead of Stephens Media). Right to sue may Haven 't (after the court ruling), but what if Stephens media be sued? Well, they 've transferred the "right \ sue" to Right Haven - Haven Right so now Stephens Media can sue for breach of their right to sue! The net effect of the legal knot is created by the deal, thus effectively providing the original material in the public domain because no one can exercise the copyright! I 'm pretty sure that wasn' t intend Stephens Media, where she set up this system ...
Another bizarre argument was set by a small British lobbying organization, claiming that a lack of software patents has been damage to the UK software industry. Well, aside from the fact that the British
Apple to film the police arrested them from their possession. The Antics of the TSA
This leads us to the events, the concerns - but not bizarre enough to surprise. It 's usually a lot of this unfortunately often Sony Of course international lobbyists have not been quiet either,
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