Blog Heap o'Art of Links 23 May 2009

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Links regarding art of all types
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copyright, media, illusion, and pop culture.

Copy Rights

Copyleft v. Copyright: FSF, RIAA face off in court
arstechnica.com Sat 2009-May-23 2:45pm

graduate student stands accused of sharing copyrighted music files for years on P2P networks. Tenenbaum is defended by Harvard Law professor Charles Nesson, but the Free Software Foundation has also shoved its oar into the water and is paddling around a bit, trying to make some waves.

Big Content appeals Pirate Bay case -- damages were too low
arstechnica.com Sat 2009-May-23 2:45pm

No one's happy about The Pirate Bay verdict. The site admins, who are now on the hook for a collective 30 million kronor in damages plus one year each in jail, have charged that the judge was biased. But the movie and music businesses have filed an appeal of their own, saying that the 30 million kronor in damages wasn't nearly enough