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"The analysis sounds as if they are prioritizing to say nothing of not counting against the caps,” he..."

Tue, 22 May 2012 10:25:52 -0400

““The analysis sounds as if they are prioritizing to say nothing of not counting against the caps,” he wrote in an e-mail. “I am disturbed by what I have heard so far and hope to get a much more detailed summary from Comcast about this practice.””

- Extra lane: how Comcast assures that Xfinity TV on Xbox 360 works well | Ars Technica

WFUD is today!

Fri, 04 May 2012 09:19:01 -0400

The 3rd annual World’s Fair Use Day is about to kick off!

For those of you who want to watch at home, enter the Pew’s online meeting center to watch the livestream.

"Raise your hand if you think Hermès actually lost $100 million of profits to this group of online..."

Thu, 03 May 2012 09:53:16 -0400

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Raise your hand if you think Hermès actually lost $100 million of profits to this group of online foreign defendants. Anyone?

Raise your hand if you think it’s possible that Hermès could lose $100 million in profits to the entire collection of online counterfeiters throughout the world. Think about the market size in total and the mixed empirical results about counterfeiting as beneficial marketing/price discrimination. Anyone?

Raise your hand if you think Hermès will collect more than $1 in cash from any defendant in this case (other than seizing cash in the hands of third-party payment service providers). Anyone?

”

- Designer group Hermès gets $100M default judgment against alleged counterfeiters

Announcing our 2012 Schedule!

Wed, 07 Mar 2012 17:56:00 -0500

9:00am - 9:30am | Registration

9:30am - 9:45am | Welcoming Remarks

Michael Weinberg, Senior Staff Attorney and Innovation Evangelist, Public Knowledge

9:45am - 10:45am | Journalism & Fair Use

Angela Chuang, Assistant Professor, School of Communication, American University

Ryan Grim, Washington Bureau Chief, Huffington Post

Josh Voorhees, Editor, The Slatest

Moderated by: Joe Torres, Senior External Affairs Director, Free Press

11:00am - 12:00pm | Keynote: Robert Pinsky

Robert Pinsky, poet and former Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, spearheaded the Favorite Poem Project, to which thousands of Americans have submitted readings (both video and audio) of their favorite poems.

12:00pm - 1:00pm | Lunch

1:00pm - 2:00pm | Fashion & Copyright

Nora Abousteit, Co-Founder, BurdaStyle

Ilse Metchek, President, California Fashion Association

Moderated by: Marissa Gluck, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Radar, USC

2:00pm - 2:30pm | Coffee break

2:30pm - 3:30pm | Poetry & Fair Use

David Fenza, Executive Director, Association of Writer’s & Writing Programs

Peter Jaszi, Professor of Law, Faculty Director of the Glushko-Samuelson Intellectual Property Clinic, American University

Casey Smith, Assistant Professor of Arts & Humanities, Corcoran College of Art + Design

Susan Tischy, Author, Professor, The Graduate Writing Program, George Mason University

Moderated by: Sherwin Siy, Deputy Legal Director, Public Knowledge

3:30pm - 4:00pm | Keynote: Kirby Ferguson

Kirby Ferguson is the producer of the four-part series Everything is a Remix.

4:00pm - 4:30pm | Closing Remarks

Gigi B. Sohn, President & CEO, Public Knowledge

Announcing WFUD 2012!

Wed, 12 Oct 2011 16:58:10 -0400

Save the date! WFUD returns on May 4, 2012.

Stay tuned for more information.

FYI: Here is how WFUD 2011 attendees self-identified, based on...

Thu, 10 Feb 2011 17:49:00 -0500

FYI: Here is how WFUD 2011 attendees self-identified, based on the choices available on our RSVP form. As tends to be the case here in Washington, the wonks walked away victorious.

WFUD 2011 | I Did it for the Lulz: Fair Use and Internet Humor

Mon, 07 Feb 2011 17:40:36 -0500

WFUD 2011 | I Did it for the Lulz: Fair Use and Internet Humor

WFUD 2011 | Keynote: DJ /rupture

Thu, 03 Feb 2011 17:31:26 -0500

WFUD 2011 | Keynote: DJ /rupture

WFUD 2011 | This is the Remix: Fair Use in Hip-Hop Culture

Thu, 03 Feb 2011 13:49:53 -0500

WFUD 2011 | This is the Remix: Fair Use in Hip-Hop Culture

WFUD 2011 | Keynote: Aram Sinnreich, Rutgers University

Wed, 02 Feb 2011 17:42:43 -0500

WFUD 2011 | Keynote: Aram Sinnreich, Rutgers University

WFUD 2011 | Katz Rules Everything Around Me: Visual Art and Fair...

Wed, 02 Feb 2011 16:14:08 -0500

WFUD 2011 | Katz Rules Everything Around Me: Visual Art and Fair Use

WFUD 2011 | Playing Fair: Remix in the Gaming Community

Wed, 02 Feb 2011 12:19:06 -0500

WFUD 2011 | Playing Fair: Remix in the Gaming Community

WFUD 2011 | Keynote: Maria Pallante, Acting Register of...

Tue, 01 Feb 2011 17:49:34 -0500

WFUD 2011 | Keynote: Maria Pallante, Acting Register of Copyrights

World’s Fair Use Day 2011 | Introduction | Gigi B. Sohn,...

Tue, 01 Feb 2011 17:48:22 -0500

World’s Fair Use Day 2011 | Introduction | Gigi B. Sohn, President, Public Knowledge

Here are a few photos highlighting our amazing panelists and...

Thu, 20 Jan 2011 11:58:31 -0500

Here are a few photos highlighting our amazing panelists and speakers who came to DC to celebrate creativity, fair use, and remix culture. For those who came to the conference or watched the livestream, we hope that the second annual World’s Fair Use Day was as educational as it was entertaining.

Too see more, here’s the public link to the Facebook photo album.

World's Fair Use Day is Tomorrow!

Wed, 12 Jan 2011 17:10:17 -0500

World’s Fair Use Day 2011 kicks off tomorrow starting at 9:30am (doors open at 9am)! If you’re attending the event in person, click over to the schedule and location pages for logistical information and be sure to RSVP if you haven’t already. If you can’t make it to D.C. for the event, click here for the livestream (starts at 9:45am tomorrow) and here to download the official WFUD program (PDF). And whether you’re attending in person or following along at home, be sure to contribute to the Twitter backchannel at #WFUD. See you all tomorrow!

Stop the presses! We’re announcing one final panelist for...

Fri, 07 Jan 2011 16:07:44 -0500

Stop the presses! We’re announcing one final panelist for World’s Fair Use Day: the one, the only, Kenyatta Cheese. If you know a thing or two about Internet memes and web culture, you’ve likely seen “Know Your Meme,” the groundbreaking meme database that he co-created and hosted; if you don’t, you’re about to get taken to school.

Kenyatta Cheese researches and fosters media culture and technology. He is probably best known for co-creating the web series and internet meme database Know Your Meme, often cited as the go to resource for understanding web culture. Kenyatta is often called upon to comment on the state and meaning of internet culture by the likes of NPR, MSNBC, The New York Times, and the parents of close friends. In previous iterations he has worked with the Eyebeam Center for Art and Technology, Manhattan Neighborhood Network, and the online television network Rocketboom.

(Kenyatta Cheese photo by Diana Levine)

We’re very excited to announce our third keynote speaker:...

Tue, 04 Jan 2011 13:47:06 -0500

We’re very excited to announce our third keynote speaker: Maria Pallante, Acting Register of Copyrights at the Library of Congress. In her role as the Acting Register of Copyrights, Maria oversees the registration, policy and other functions of the Copyright Office. In addition to her expertise in copyright law, Maria has a background in writing and visual art, having worked at the Guggenheim Museums and the Authors Guild prior to joining the Library of Congress.

Maria Pallante was appointed Acting Register of Copyrights for the United States effective January 1, 2011. She will serve on an interim basis until the next Register is named and assumes the duties of the position.

Maria is on leave from the Office of the Librarian of Congress, where she has served as Senior Advisor to the Librarian since October 2010. She previously held two senior positions in the U.S. Copyright Office, serving as Associate Register (policy and international affairs) and Deputy General Counsel, respectively, from January 2007 to October 2010.

From 1999-2007, Maria was intellectual property counsel and director of licensing for the worldwide Guggenheim Museums, where she advised on programmatic and business initiatives related to worldwide publishing, product development and branding; the acquisition and exhibition of contemporary art; and the operation of overseas affiliates and licensees. Earlier in her career, she was in private practice in Washington, DC and on the staff of two authors’ organizations in New York, serving first as Assistant Director of the Authors Guild, Inc. and then as Executive Director of the National Writers Union, in each case working on copyright, publishing transactions and freedom of expression issues.

Maria has chaired and served on numerous professional committees, has testified before Congress, and delivered numerous lectures and presentations in the United States and abroad.

We’re pleased to announce a last-minute addition to our...

Tue, 04 Jan 2011 12:44:00 -0500

We’re pleased to announce a last-minute addition to our panel on visual art: Dan Lynch of Negativland. In addition to producing artwork for the pioneering audio collage band, Lynch has distinguished himself as a visual artist whose works blur the lines between digital reappropriation and analog creation. At World’s Fair Use Day we’ll be showing Dan’s latest piece, “The Volcano Society,” which uses images culled from Google Image Search to produce four large collages that masquerade as paintings.

Dan began to take art seriously in 1970 when he won second place the American Automobile Association’s traffic safety poster contest in second grade. Upon winning a $75 savings bond, he knew that he wanted to pursue art.

Dan studied architectural design at the California College of Arts and Crafts. Thereafter, he worked in architecture and became immersed in the arcane computer graphics programs of the 1980s that were used within the profession. He eventually put architecture aside and has been an art director since 1991.

Dan is an avid photographer, but sees it as a means to an end. Before digital image editing, he would manipulate his photos any way he could. His work consists of digital montages and paintings that are printed on canvas, which are further painted to completion.

Dan believes that creative work is taken from borrowings that are changed—whether they spring out of one’s mind with brush in hand, are captured behind the lens, or come from Google Image Search. He believes it is the rearrangement and presentation of the world as we find it that creates new art.

Dan has been a satellite member of Negativland since 1993. He has collaborated with them on the visual side of their work, including book cover art, package design, illustration, photography and creative brainstorming.

We’re excited to announce our second of three keynote...

Mon, 03 Jan 2011 12:41:00 -0500

We’re excited to announce our second of three keynote speakers: academic, musician and cultural scholar Aram Sinnreich. During his keynote, Aram will provide an introduction to his recent book, Mashed Up: Music, Technology and the Rise of Configurable Culture, which “chronicles the rise of ‘configurability,’ an emerging musical and cultural moment rooted in today’s global, networked communications infrastructure”.

Aram Sinnreich is an assistant professor at Rutgers University’s School of Communication and Information, and the author of the recent book Mashed Up: Music, Technology and the Rise of Configurable Culture. He has written about music and technology for The New York Times, Billboard, and Wired, has testified as an expert witness in several cases including the Supreme Court file sharing suit MGM vs. Grokster, and has offered his expertise as an analyst and consultant to hundreds of companies, from major labels to fledgling startups, since 1997. He is also a working musician, playing bass and composing with bands and artists including Brave New Girl, Agent 99, and the late, great Ari-Up.