Tag: Copyright infringement
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Cease and Desist Mark 2: Beastles gets pulled by the blue meanies
Years ago, on a different host and a different URL I got a Cease and Desist from EMI via the MCPS-PRS for a mashup I did…interestingly I haven’t been hassled since then, til now. I’m mirroring the Beastles ‘Ill Submarine’ and it seems the RIAA & Universal is leading an attack on it, despite the…
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Here Come The Drones: Extradition & Copyright
I’ve been a bit lax in posting about copyleft issues – partly because, apart from the SOPA/PIPA win it’s been mostly a deluge of shit, nasty political fudging (eh, Dave?), endless cases like Megaupload (love that the NZ court finally got some balls and told FBI where to go on deleting all the data) and…
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You Are Not Banksy
Love to see him file copyright infringement charges (via his PC obviously) for this series by Nick Stern. Brilliant 😉 (via Jay-R & HuffPo) Incidentally was walking down near Thamesmead today, not only saw a Banksy-style knock-off, also saw a lone ‘Team Banksy’ logo with the rest of the image whited out. So some people…
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Welcome to London 2012: Brand Exclusion Zone
I’ve been blogging and talking about my unhappiness of what’s going down in London 2012, and will talk about this more in the next podcast, up shortly. But this blog post talks about the Brand Exclusion zone where not only advertising by non-sponsors isn’t allowed but: This will be supported by preventing spectators from wearing…