It’s been a busy month for copyright news.  Just last week we heard that the US Government Accounting Office (GAO) released a report concerning Piracy that pretty much “poo poos” nearly all claims by the media industries concerning what the cost of piracy is.  Of course, the RIAA has already lambasted the GAO’s report.

Here’s a list of articles that discuss the GAO report conclusions:

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Next we have news from Ireland that “copyright is a fundamental right” and it’s perfectly OK (& legal) to kick copyright infringers off the Internet:

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Then we have this amazing “Wish List for fighting piracy” from the RIAA & MPAA in their comments to the Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator (IPEC).  This includes items such as requiring anti-infringement software to be installed on home computers.  These folks must be the aliens that 1/5 of people in a recent poll believe exist.  Only someone from another world could come up with a list like this!

If you’d like to see a more reasonable & balanced  input, read what Mike Masnick over at TechDirt submitted last month here.

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Great article in the The Economist a couple weeks ago discussing “Why the rules on copyright need to return to their roots.”

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And from a month ago, an article concerning the warnings of “Piracy” author Adrian Johns titled “Historian warns against copyright-fight heavy hitting” from “The Register.”

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For some interesting background info concerning copyright law in the international arena, check out the “Copy/South Research Group.”  They’ve published the following PDF documents that are freely available:

Dat’s all for now…