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• Interview with Eric Dingler of Deloitte
  Today we’re speaking with Eric Dingler, who recently joined Deloitte Service LLP (“Deloitte Services”) as the Director of Learning and Talent Development for the United States for Deloitte [...]
• Song-Swapping Lawsuits Face [real] Challenge
  The quick recap: * peer to peer file swapping is huge * recording industry believes song swapping interferes with sales * Song swapping really is a copyright infringment in many cases * Recording [...]
• Google Agreement
  Remember the big dust-up over Google's plans to digitize all books everywhere in the world and beam them into everyone's head so all information throughout time would be universally [...]
• Limited Editions
  Can there be a Limited Edition of information products? I thought about this after I came across a site that discusses nothing but limited edition foods. I didn't realize this was the big [...]
• Viacom and Google are Fighting
  If you pay any attention to digital technology and copyright issues, you know that there is and has been a huge issue regarding the posting of copyrighted material without permission on user sites - [...]
• An Alternative to Copyright Police
  Cheers to the University of Arizona, which has just created an office copyright education, staffed and housed in the University library. The University that says the role of the new office's [...]
• Recession Proof
  Okay, maybe not quite recession proof, but conventional wisdom holds that entertainment fares better than many industry sectors during a recession. And of course, that is good news for the many [...]
• A Big Day For Copyright
  Tomorrow, October 22, marks the 70th anniversary of the very first xerographic image. Copyrights are easier to control when the means to copy material is relatively difficult. The Xerox machine [...]
• It's not just bad guys
  A couple of guys made a big splash on YouTube with somne video lessons on how to play guitar that became VERY popular. Problem was, they had not obtained a license to publicly perform the [...]
• Fair Use on the Campaign Trail
  A fascinating report on Wired.com highlights copyright fair use principals again. Apparently, the McCain presidential campaign has been attempting to use YouTube as part of its campaign strategy, [...]