Back in 2009, Waxy.org’s Andy Baio produced Kind of Bloop, a chiptune tribute to Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue. It was one of the biggest early success stories for crowdfunding platform Kickstarter. Today, Baio announced he had paid $32,000 in a copyright settlement — not over the music, which he licensed from the publisher, but […]
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Good News! New DMCA exemptions benefit university faculty and students
On Monday, the Copyright Office announced new rules on exemptions from prohibition on circumvention of technological measures that control access to copyrighted works. Their words, not mine. Ever since the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) became law, faculty members and students alike have been legally hindered from using DVDs in the ways they had been […]
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