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How Copyright Extension Undermined Copyright: The Copyright Of Parking
techdirt.com 1 week agoWhat do copyright and parking laws have in common? The short answer: no one takes either very seriously. According to a recent article in L.A. Magazine, only 10% of parking citations ever get written. Which is to say that 90% of the times that people park illegally, there are no consequences. Those who violate the increasingly strict parking rules in most U.S. cities are more likely to associate a ticket with bad luck or personal hostility against them than with the fact that they broke the law. In other wo
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Google Gets 250,000 Copyright Requests A Week
forbes.com 1 hour, 59 minutes agoThis is a quite astonishing number, isn?t it? That gets 250,000 requests a week to take down material which has been posted in breach of copyright? now regularly receives more copyright ?notice and takedown? requests from rights-holders in a week than it did during the entirety of 2009, the company has said. The internet giant ...










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