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This is a great time to be alive if you find copyright law fascinating. Now the right of publicity is in danger of being extended in California – this time I’m with the entertainment biz: After more than 40 years in the business, Johnny and Edgar Winter are legendary Texas …

We keep bitching about the consumer-unfriendliness of copy-protection in CDs: consumers do not want restrictions on what they can do with their own CDs, DVDs, or MP3s and other digital codecs, either. Once it’s yours, it should be yours and screw their encryption. PW Newsline says the same thinking applies …

One of the single most important individuals in the establishment of tbomedia.co.uk, John Scalzi, has some very exciting news: Today is the official release date for The Rough Guide to the Universe. That’s in the US, mind you; in the UK, it’s already been out for a month, and I’m …

British book So You Think You Know Harry Potter coming to the U.S.: So you think you know all about Harry Potter, his friends, his adversaries, and his amazing adventures? This book is the ultimate test, as tough as making one of Professor Snape’s potions and as slippery as a …

Using free to sell not-free via Altnet – the “first peer-to-peer network created to give consumers easy access to secure content that originates from content owners” – which piggybacks off of Kazaa: Altnet today announced that it has secured the exclusive distribution rights to artist and author Lee Jaffe’s never-been-seen-before …

J.B. Fletcher returns - do you care?

Copies of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, to be published on June 21, were found earlier this week dumped in a field in Suffolk, England. Now four have been arrested: Police said in a statement that two 16-year-old boys and two men aged 18 and 44 were …

Okay, so Mister Rogers didn’t say it, but “Mister Robinson,” one of Eddie Murphy’s better parodies, did. The accumulated wit and wisdom of the beloved Fred Rogers, who died at 74 in February, will be published in October by Hyperion: “Fred Rogers’ messages – that we respect each other’s uniqueness, …

Hunter S. Thompson got married: Surprise surprise, eh? It was done with fine style and secrecy in order to avoid the craziness and drunken violence that local lawmen feared would inevitably have followed the ceremony. I know nothing about planning even the simplest wedding, nothing at all, and neither does …

Ancient socialist, peacenik, and folk legend Pete Seeger has recorded a new version of his Vietnam War-era protest song, “Bring Them Home” (seems kind of moot about now) with help from Steve Earle, Ani DiFranco, and Billy Bragg. I would expect nothing different from Seeger, who at 84 is as …