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The (Slow) Race to Put Movies Online

February 25th, 2008 · No Comments

The Academy Awards were on TV last night, and the many retrospective montages showing 80 years of film made me want to write something about why few of those movies are available legally online today. Remember all those promises back in the late 1990s about how the Internet would soon allow people to watch […]

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Let There Be …. Copyright?

January 23rd, 2006 · No Comments

Apparently taking a page from the Church of Scientology, the Pope has announced that the Catholic Church will now treat all of the Pope’s words as subject to copyright. Those who want to reprint the Pope’s words will have to pay a tithe, … er…. I mean, a royalty of between 3 and 5 […]

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Tags: Copyright