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Ben Sheffner
Personal blog · copyrightsandcampaigns.blogspot.compoliticsculture
Ben Sheffner writes Copyrights & Campaigns, a personal blog at copyrightsandcampaigns.blogspot.com about politics and culture. Since 2009, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. The last post was in 2011, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog's posts on copyright and DMCA enforcement, such as takedown abuse and the RealDVD litigation. Commenters use them as background for their own points about the law.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Ben Sheffner's notes on copyright, First Amendment, media, and entertainment law, and political campaigns
What Hacker News says?
> corporate copyright holders are happy with the setup since they can basically strike down anything they want without worry of legal repercussions (which DMCA addresses). In practice they never have much to fear from legal repercussions. There are countless examples of DMCA notices sent by corporations in error, or sent for reasons such as suppressing criticism, or to find out a blogger's identity, or to try to ext…
Comment linking /2010/02/court-narrowly-construes-damages.html
on “YouTube's eraser tool removes copyrighted music without impacting other audio”Submitted ACTA: time to calm down and look at the facts as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThe logic of the old Betamax case, treating as fair use the copying from VHS tapes by individual consumers for their own individual use, is undercut by the DMCA's provision prohibiting trafficking in devices that circumvent DRM - in this case, RN's DVD ripper software. A loss for consumers, as noted in the original post. This came in the form of a preliminary injunction granted by the same San Francisco federal tria…
Comment linking /2009/04/realdvd-preliminary-injunction-hearing.html
on “Unless you love copy protection, root for RealDVD in its court battle.”