Interviews with Digital Media Thought Leaders

MPAA Overestimates On-Campus Digital Piracy

Podcast Audio | Posted by Phil Leigh on February 12, 2008

 
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Summary: If you would like to learn how the Motion Picture Association of America overestimated digital piracy on our nation’s college campuses, this interview is for you.
 
Our guest today is Jim Burger who is an intellectual property attorney and Partner at Dow, Lohnes, in Washington, D.C. Jim has been a repeated contributor to Inside Digital Media on matters relating to copyrights, media protection, and piracy. Read more…

Will Copyrights Restrict Media Use Over Home Networks?

Podcast Audio | Posted by Phil Leigh on July 13, 2007

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As we get more familiar with home networking we’re likely to start buying appliances that will display Digital Media stored on our computers in other rooms of the house. As consumers, we are likely to regard such uses as entirely legitimate and consistent with the personal use application under the Fair Use exemption of the Copyright Act.
 
But, as Will Rogers put it, “If I don’t see things your way, why should I?” In short, broadcasters and content rights holders may consider that the distribution of media across home networks is not an implicit right of the acquired media. Our guest today is an intellectual property attorney who discusses how this issue came up at last month’s World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) meeting.

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