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Submission + - DoJ Files Suit Against Apple, eBook Publishers (cnet.com) 1

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forkfail

on Wednesday April 11, 2012 @09:31AM

forkfail writes: "The Department of Justice has filed suit against Apple and a number of book publishers, including Hachette SA, HarperCollins, Macmillan, Penguin and Simon & Schuster, claiming that they worked in collusion to artificially rig prices on eBooks."

Submission + - A Copyright Nightmare (yahoo.com)

Submitted by forkfail on Tuesday January 17, 2012 @11:58AM

forkfail writes: If further proof is needed that copyright law was out of control in the US, it can be found in the fact that it costs 10 dollars to view Martin Luther King's famous Dream Speech. You might think that you could find it on youtube or other public venues, given its importance in American history. But no — the rights are firmly locked away until 2038.

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