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The Bodyguard, Netflix, and Your Right to Access Promised Content

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UPDATE:  Check with TechDirt for a significant correction on this story. Apparently this video was removed from the streaming catalog before Whitney Houston’s death.  While that does mean Warner Brothers did not behave as cynically as I believed, the fact that that there was confusion about the date really rather supports my point.  If you expect a video to be in the catalog, you expect it to find it.  

If you were planning to watch The Bodyguard on Netflix, you’re out of luck. According to this post on TechDirt, it’s been pulled. Unless you’re a huge Whitney Houston fan, you probably won’t notice. It’s not a good movie and you probably weren’t planning to watch it. It’s got some great music, but the soundtrack is available separately. If you were planning to watch it, you are probably really annoyed and need to make other plans. I feel your pain, because I’ve been there. It happens far too often, digitally distributed media has a tendency to just disappear, usually due to rights issues.

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© Rights Reserved! Creativity, Commerce, Preservation and Control

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Techdirt is fast becoming one of my favorite blogs, especially for it’s coverage of intellectual property, digital piracy and copyright issues.  Today’s post on “Why Piracy Is Indispensable to the Survival of our Culture” is important reading, not just for those who are interested in these issues, but for all of  us, myself included, who’ve never really thought about the shelf life of all those documents, photos and programs we’ve stored away on disks in formats we probably don’t even have the hardware to read anymore!

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Where does it end?  By the logic of the Van Dyke Parks laid as laid out in taking legal action agains Erik den Breejen, if the artist cannot create art inspired by a Beach Boys album, am I allowed to write this post praising the posts from the Techdirt blog?  Did I need permission?  Please don’t sue me guys!

The Internet Blacklist Bill and International Studies

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Today, Congress held hearings on the PROTECT IP Act and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). There’s probably not too many reading this that would argue with the goals laid out in the titles of those two bills, but don’t be deceived. It’s not the objective of the bills we object to, but rather the means. As the Vimeo blog today notes, both bills

would give the power to the government and content owners to censor and block websites that host even just one piece of content that allegedly infringes a copyright…a much more severe House bill was just introduced and is set up to pass soon if we don’t take action NOW. These bills threaten the very essence of the web and the communities that have risen from it.

As an area studies scholar and someone who believes that in general open and free communications between cultures around the world is a good thing, I’d like to point out another objection to this law. It has the potential to greatly complicate my research and the free flow of knowledge by throwing up barriers to information that the internet only recently opened. My research delves into constructions of identity through literature, popular culture and the performing arts, and it always a great relief when I find useful research materials online. The internet has made music videos, movies, the popular press, and so much more available to me online from my living room or wherever my computer is.
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Teaching Copyright

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