Public Knowledge is a Washington DC based public interest group working to defend your rights in the emerging digital culture.
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- World's Fair Use Day (WFUD)
Washington, DC
Tuesday, January 12 at 9:00am
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World's Fair Use Day (WFUD) is a free, all-day celebration of fair use: the legal right that allows innovators and creators to make particular uses of copyrighted materials. At WFUD, we'll highlight new and innovative uses of existing content; provide the perspectives of artists, policymakers, academics and business in...novators; and teach you how fair use can enrich your creative work.
Tentative Schedule of Events
* Fair Use Film Screenings
* Morning Keynote: The Honorable Mike Doyle
* Panel 1: Artistic Innovations and Participatory Culture
* Panel 2: Emerging Media: Commentary, Criticism and the New Publishing Paradigm
* Panel 3: Tech Unbound: Fair Use for Innovation
* Panel 4: Speed Fair(Us)e
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a free all-day celebration of fair use: the legal right that allows innovators and creators to make particular uses of copyrighted materials.
Time:9:00AM Tuesday, January 12th
Location:Washington, DC
Public Knowledge We're packing up the PK Offices to head to our new location, south of Dupont Circle.
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The MPAA’s attempt to get the FCC to allow Hollywood to impose Selectable Output Control (SOC) on consumers has gotten quite a bit of coverage in the tech-savvy blogosphere over the past few days.
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The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has made a good deal of intellectual property news recently, given their copyright and trademark lawsuit against the Yes Men for the latter’s fake press conference and ...
Artist, Open Government, and Civil Liberties Groups Join Calls for ACTA Transparency | Public Knowle
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Public Knowledge and other public interest organizations have been calling for transparency in the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) negotiations since the United States Trade Representative (USTR) started the negotiation process. ...
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This is the first in a series of videos that will try and shed some light on what is going on at the FCC. Be sure to stay tuned for more exciting adventures with Mr. X-Parté!
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As the Selectable Output Control (SOC) battle continues here in Washington, Public Knowledge just sent a letter to the FCC pointing out that movie studios are doing some of the best work to show why SOC just doesn’t make sense.
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The battle over your home entertainment equipment is heating up again and the time to make your voice heard is now. Hollywood wants the Federal Communications Commission to grant the studios permission to engage in so-called “Selectable Output Control,” or SOC for short. ...
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Public Knowledge recently celebrated its 8th birthday of defending citizens’ rights in the digital culture. Unlike any other public interest group in Washington or elsewhere, we are dedicated to ensuring openness at every layer of our communication system, and that includes the content layer. ...
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My favorite poster on the walls here at Public Knowledge is one called “You’ve Heard This Song Before.” It collects the assorted FUD that has accompanied disruptive media technologies over the years. The ...
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Thomas Snydor, a Senior Fellow at the Progress & Freedom Foundation (PFF) – more about them here – has proudly announced that moving away from the practice of copyright holders suing their consumers ...
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It’s one thing to read about the massive lobbying power that industries have. It’s in the news every day. There are stories about how much money the big pharmaceutical companies are spending, and certainly ...
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Admittedly, we here at Public Knowledge spend a lot of time fighting with Hollywood and the MPAA. It is not that we think that the MPAA is full of bad people, just that the policies that they fight for are not always in the public interest. ...
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Copyright owners have often used the DMCA’s notice and take down procedure to silence criticism instead of preventing copyright infringement. A recent DMCA take down involving the group Yes Men is yet another example of this phenomenon. ...
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I recently complained that no one else ever seems to follow the record on the network neutrality stuff. But Commissioner McDowell took the prize for failure to remember what he had previously voted for ...
