The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard is a new doc that captures the controversy around the Pirate Bay and its founders. The doc will be released day and date at a major festival later this year. The filmmakers plan to make the film available as a free download at the same time it has its festival premiere. The trailer was released only three days ago and now has over a million views.
RiP! A Remix Manifesto
Pitchfork is showing Brett Gaylor’s film RiP! A Remix Manifesto this week for FREE. I got to see the film at SXSW and loved it. It is a great overview of some of the issues surrounding copyright in the US. Well worth a watch. The film is split into sections on the Pitchfork site.
Copyright in real-time
This post from BusinessWeek touches on some interesting issues regarding copyright and the emerging realities of a real-time web.
Copyright law wasn’t written with today’s content consumption in mind. The way online video copyright functions is based on a reading of the 10-year-old Digital Millennium Copyright Act that equates video hosting sites with Internet service providers. That law provides a “safe harbor” for hosts who respond to copyright claims by taking down infringing content “expeditiously.”
There doesn’t seem to be widespread motivation to modernize that process. Viacom is suing YouTube for $1 billion , claiming YouTube should take more responsibility than the current reading of DMCA requires — but that’s plodding along in the courts . Meanwhile, Internet users are sharing and consuming content at a furious rate. And what’s being called the “real-time web” is even less equipped to deal with copyright infringement. READ MORE