GNG News Guy
12-30-2007, 03:30 PM
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Yesterday we saw that the RIAA lawsuit (http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/RIAA-Says-You-Cant-Copy-Music-To-Your-Computer-90566) against an individual who copied legally-downloaded music onto his computer sparked a lot of conversation. This is just one example of how interested people are in the topic of how copyright laws apply to the changing technology in our modern world. The fact of the matter is that there s a gap between the laws that are on the books and the reality of life today. The courts are having to play catch-up with copyright lawsuits such as this one.
And of course it s not just music technology that causes this issue to come up. An article on Shelly Palmer Media (http://www.shellypalmermedia.com/2007/12/29/is-content-viewed-for-the-first-time-via-sling-being-rebroadcasted/) brings up the question of how the use of television recording technology like Slingbox (recently acquired (http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/87862) by Echostar) could end up coming under the same type of fire. The legal issues here are murky at best but the article s author brings up some points about recording technology and the definition of rebroadcasting (which is a legal violation) that offer some food for thought.
In related news, those people who use torrent sites for file sharing can get a heads-up on which ones are good by checking out the top ten list (http://torrentfreak.com/10-most-popular-torrent-sites-of-2007-071229/) put out by Torrent Freak this week.
Yesterday we saw that the RIAA lawsuit (http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/RIAA-Says-You-Cant-Copy-Music-To-Your-Computer-90566) against an individual who copied legally-downloaded music onto his computer sparked a lot of conversation. This is just one example of how interested people are in the topic of how copyright laws apply to the changing technology in our modern world. The fact of the matter is that there s a gap between the laws that are on the books and the reality of life today. The courts are having to play catch-up with copyright lawsuits such as this one.
And of course it s not just music technology that causes this issue to come up. An article on Shelly Palmer Media (http://www.shellypalmermedia.com/2007/12/29/is-content-viewed-for-the-first-time-via-sling-being-rebroadcasted/) brings up the question of how the use of television recording technology like Slingbox (recently acquired (http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/87862) by Echostar) could end up coming under the same type of fire. The legal issues here are murky at best but the article s author brings up some points about recording technology and the definition of rebroadcasting (which is a legal violation) that offer some food for thought.
In related news, those people who use torrent sites for file sharing can get a heads-up on which ones are good by checking out the top ten list (http://torrentfreak.com/10-most-popular-torrent-sites-of-2007-071229/) put out by Torrent Freak this week.