‘Those French types are actually defying their government … ‘
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11
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Turning Europe ‘into an entertainment industries’ dream region … ‘
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10
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‘If someone is accused, a fine can be issued, a bit like a speeding offence.’
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4
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Shut-down would adversely affect indie music and musicians …
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22
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He’s horning in on the Three Strikes farce and unsurprisingly, he’s on the side of the corporate music industry and Featured Artists’ Coalition.
Feb
5
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The IPO will ‘clarify and clean up contracts between artists and record companies by appointing a team to ‘ensure artists don’t sign everything away when they are young’.
Jan
29
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Where a ‘third party copyright holder makes an allegation of copyright infringement to your ISP, and without any due process or adjudication, your ISP disconnects you from the Internet’.
Jan
20
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‘EMI won’t let us let you embed our YouTube videos. It’s a decision that bums us out.’
Jan
16
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‘The precise way I had looked at doing this does not work because I had been listening too much to the language being used about this being a Bill that was about people who downloaded copyrighted material. ‘
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14
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28 lawsuits brought across the country from December 2005 through July 2006
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13
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Under an amendment, ‘Google would be free to copy everything — but a publisher blocking search spiders with a robots.txt file would be taken as withholding that right …’
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‘Everybody seems to think that a fierce battle is underway between the record companies and the filesharers, but this is a naive assessment – the battle is long since over.’
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4
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Meanwhile, ‘Hadopi has attracted a maelstrom of criticism both in France and abroad …’
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‘Caution! The only thing protecting the movie and TV industries from the fate that has befallen music and indeed the newspaper business is the size of the files.’