http://copyleftmagazine.com Copyright, copyleft and everything in between. Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:18:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We've been anticipating this one for sometime, but Phil Schiller just announced in his MacWorld keynote that, by the end of the first quarter of 2009, the entire iTunes catalog will be DRM-free. This puts an end to six years of DRM on Apple's iTunes and iPods, though it ... http://copyleftmagazine.com/?p=64 We've seen this before, but it still hurts every time. Walmart.com's digital music service has announced in an e-mail to customers that it is going to shut down its DRM servers in about a week as it switches over to a completely DRM-free shopping experience. So, as of ... http://copyleftmagazine.com/?p=55 Borrowing aspects of Hungry Hungry Hippos, Creative Commons' promotional materials and McKenzie Wark's A Hacker Manifesto, the Free Culture Game by La Molleindustria has succeeded in doing what few have tried: simplifying the complexities of the debate over intellectual "property" into a flash video game. Your job is ... http://copyleftmagazine.com/?p=51 While there's been a lot of coverage of this one over the past week, I think it is worth another look. According to numerous news sources, the judge in Atlantic vs. Howell, a long running RIAA file-sharing lawsuit, has declare in a preliminary opinion, that the RIAA's contention that ... http://copyleftmagazine.com/?p=50 In a move that has riled even the most levelheaded of bloggers out there, Microsoft has decided to shut off the authentication servers for its dead MSN Music service, essentially flipping the bird to anyone who bought music from them. The nuts and bolts go something like this. ... http://copyleftmagazine.com/?p=49 For those of you who have a penchant for pre-Outlook e-mail clients, the folks over at Mozilla have a treat for you. Eudora has been resurrected from the not-so-dead and, with the blessing of Qualcomm (who owns the rights to the venerable piece of e-mail software), Mozilla has relaunched ... http://copyleftmagazine.com/?p=48 We're big fans of OpenOffice.org here at Copyleft: the magazine, and it appears that we are not alone in our open source office software love. Combining the pure open sourcey goodness of OO.org and its own Lotus Notes code and branding, IBM launched Lotus Symphony this week. The ... http://copyleftmagazine.com/?p=47 There appears to be a new standard emerging for tagging documents and extracting real information that is usable across different platforms. The World Wide Web Consortium has put forth GRDDL (and yes, it is pronounced "griddle") as a sort of Rosetta Stone for translating all the different flavors of ... http://copyleftmagazine.com/?p=46 Latest news in the death of DRM comes from the UK, where 7digital.com is offering Pink Floyd's entire catalog DRM-free and at a massive discount. Floyd is, of course, celebrating the 40th aniversary of the launch of its first album. Apparently, 7digital is also discounting much of Floyd's ... http://copyleftmagazine.com/?p=45 Apparently sporting one of the busiest legal departments in the music biz, Universal was in the news again this week, this time suing video sharing site Veoh with "massive copyright violation" for hosting vids that might maybe have Universal's copyrighted audio or video. This case, not unlike the now ... http://copyleftmagazine.com/?p=44