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Reason
September 2005
Julian Sanchez |
Death of the Auteur Congress passed the Family Movie Act, which established that filtering movies to remove sex or violence or profanity (or any other bits you don't like) doesn't run afoul of copyright laws, as long as no fixed copy of the filtered version is created.   |
InternetNews
September 29, 2004
Roy Mark |
House Toughens Penalties on P2Ps Bill calls for criminal penalties of up to five years for willfully distributing copyrighted works. |
InternetNews
November 30, 2004
Roy Mark |
Congress Slashes Hollywood's Copyright Wish List Revised legislation drops controversial copyright provisions supported by the movie and recording industries. |
InternetNews
April 1, 2004
Roy Mark |
House Panel Endorses P2P Criminal Penalties Judiciary subcommittee passes legislation sanctioning prison time for suspects caught trading 1,000 or more copyrighted files online. |
Home Theater
December 17, 2007
Mark Fleischmann |
Congress Unrolls Copyright Wiper Look out, file sharers. Congress is about to enact draconian new legislation that would make penalties for copyright violation even stiffer. |
Information Today
August 2005
Dan Duncan |
Intellectual Property -- Copyright Tug of War Broadcasters and movie makers worry as court rulings and new technologies threaten their control over copyrighted material.. |
PC World
December 28, 2001
Lincoln Spector |
Software Cleans Adult DVDs for Family Viewing ClearPlay releases the first program to shield kids from scenes -- but only if they watch DVDs from the PC... |
InternetNews
September 7, 2004
Roy Mark |
Copyright Office Jumps Into P2P Fray Negotiations continuing over Sen. Orrin Hatch's controversial proposal to allow copyright owners to sue P2P networks. |
The Motley Fool
January 5, 2004
W.D. Crotty |
Not-So-Scary Movie Does piracy threaten the movie studios? Not just yet. |
PC World
August 2003
Frank Thorsberg |
Consumer Alert: Copy Controls Crackdown Multimedia lovers find themselves caught in a digital vise these days, as Hollywood tightens its copyright controls on movies, games, and music on DVDs and CDs -- most recently squeezing customers accused of copyright infringement in court. Technology is starting to offer some relief, though. |
InternetNews
December 6, 2007
Sean Gallagher |
New Bill Stiffens File-Sharing Penalties The U.S. House of Representatives is edging closer to laying out harsher penalties and stepping up enforcement for the illegal sharing of music and movies. |
InternetNews
September 7, 2007
Caron Carlson |
House Passes Major Patent Reform The U.S. House approved legislation today that seeks to overhaul and modernize over 55 years of patent law and address a patent-award system that bi-partisan groups have long argued is broken. |
Reason
October 2006
Nick Gillespie |
CleanFlicks v. Kate Winslet's Breasts The sooner big content providers understand and adapt to a powerful and ultimately unstoppable cultural and technological dynamic, the better they'll be at serving the audiences who are increasingly in control of what they watch, listen to, and read. |
PC World
February 2005
Tom Spring |
The (Movie) Empire Strikes Back Spooked by powerful PCs and broadband pipes that make it ever easier to copy and share films, the movie industry is expanding its legal and legislative offensive against perceived threats. |
InternetNews
September 22, 2005
Roy Mark |
P2P, Internet2: Heady Brew For College Kids Unfazed by a landmark Supreme Court decision, students target Internet2 and campus LANs for file swapping, new report says. |
InternetNews
April 7, 2009
Kenneth Corbin |
Hollywood Congressman Goes Global to Nix Piracy Rep. Berman announces a new effort to take the piracy fight worldwide. |
CRM
December 2011
Eric Barkin |
The Monday Morning Numbers on Movie Marketing How international growth, social media, and a decline in DVD sales are changing the film industry's marketing strategies. |
PC World
April 23, 2002
Tom Spring |
DVD Copy Controls Head to Court Small software firm challenges digital copyright law, tries to assert the right to backups... |
InternetNews
July 19, 2006
Clint Boulton |
CinemaNow: Download, Burn, Watch Online movie service provider CinemaNow became the first company to allow movies piped over the Internet to be securely burned onto a DVD. |
InternetNews
November 12, 2004
Roy Mark |
Conservatives Aim to Sink Pirate Act American Conservative Union says Hollywood wants to use the DOJ as its private law firm to sue copyright infringers. |
InternetNews
July 6, 2004
Roy Mark |
P2P Bill Induces Tech Group to Action Companies push for new hearing on legislation that targets P2P networks and others for 'inducing' copyright infringement. |
InternetNews
August 4, 2005
Roy Mark |
Camcording Warez Dealer Bagged by Feds The Department of Justice announces its first arrests under a new law prohibiting recording movies in a theater. |
PC Magazine
January 10, 2007
Aaron Dalton |
Washington's Net Change How the Democrat-controlled Congress could affect technology legislation. |
Salon.com
January 15, 2003
Katharine Mieszkowski |
Hollywood and Silicon Valley: Together at last? A new industry agreement on digital copyright issues says the government should stay out of enforcement. But it's a little late for that, says one expert. |
The Motley Fool
October 7, 2011
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
3 Reasons Why Comcast's $60 Movies Will Fail The cable giant is testing on-demand rentals of nearly first-run features. |
InternetNews
January 23, 2004
Roy Mark |
House Panel Sparks Database Controversy Judiciary Committee approves bill that creates a new property right in database facts. |
Information Today
October 20, 2003
George H. Pike |
Database Protection Legislation Introduced in Congress On Oct. 8, 2003, the ongoing debate over the need for database protection returned to the floor of Congress with the introduction of House Bill 3261, the Database and Collections of Information Misappropriation Act. |
New Architect
November 2002
Bret A. Fausett |
Minds of Their Own Copyright protection flags violate our right to fair use. |
PC World
December 3, 2002
Tom Spring |
New Tool Makes DVD Copying Easy 321 Studios challenges Hollywood, DMCA again with release of DVD X Copy. |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2006
von Lohmann & Seltzer |
Death by DMCA A flood of legislation released by the passage of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act threatens to drown whole classes of consumer electronics. |
BusinessWeek
July 11, 2005
Ronald Grover |
What's Driving The Box Office Batty Hollywood is pushing movies to DVD and video faster -- and theaters are feeling squeezed. And with the price of cinema tickets skyrocketing, this gives movie fans new clout. Clearly, some big script changes are in store. |
Reason
May 2008
Greg Beato |
Hollywood's Decency Epidemic An onslaught of wholesome entertainment |
Home Theater
May 17, 2007 |
'Attempted Copyright Crimes' Law Proposed Copying music or movies? Don't even think about it, says attorney general Alberto Gonzales. He's supporting a new law that would make even attempting copyright infringement a new federal offense. |
PC World
November 2002
Kevin McKean |
Up Front: A Corporate Posse for Copyright Thieves? That's how a tough new bill proposes to stop movie and music pirates. |
Information Today
September 22, 2008
Robin Peek |
Fair Copyright in Research Works Act Challenges Federal Funding Some publishers are fighting the national Institutes of Health legislation that requires federally funded research to be made available through PubMed Central. |
PC World
April 2003
Dylan F. Tweney |
Now They're After You: Music Cops Target Users Recording industry expands focus and guns for file traders. |
Reason
March 2003
Jesse Walker |
Locking Up Movies Master of the public domain? Free digital archives of out-of-print old movies could be a great resource, but for the fact that Congress keeps extending the copyright terms. |
Information Today
January 30, 2012 |
CCC and MPLC Partner for New Corporate Movie License The Motion Picture License is a companion to CCC's Annual Copyright License, which gives knowledge workers the freedom to legally share content with each other while respecting the rights of copyright holders. |
BusinessWeek
July 14, 2003
Grover & Green |
Hollywood Heist Will tinseltown let techies steal the show? The ripping and burning of movies to DVDs is growing into a global underground industry that last year cost film studios an estimated $3 billion in lost DVD sales. It's prodding the guys in Guccis into action. |
Salon.com
April 15, 2002
Damien Cave |
In defense of copyright A top intellectual property lawyer argues that the Supreme Court's decision to review the Sonny Bono Copyright Extension Act is plain wrong... |
Wired
January 2004
Chris Anderson |
MEMO: To: The next head of the Motion Picture Association of America How Hollywood can avoid the fate of the music industry |
InternetNews
July 18, 2007
David Needle |
Law Group Trying To 'Embarrass' Google Over Posts The National Legal and Policy Center announced it has evidence of pirated movies being hosted on Google Video. |
InternetNews
September 23, 2005
Roy Mark |
Senate Turns Attention to Data Privacy The Senate Judiciary Committee expects to vote next week on legislation making it a crime for data brokers to conceal a security breach involving personal data and increasing penalties for computer fraud when the act involves personal data. |
Salon.com
August 31, 2001
Damien Cave |
Copywrong? A government report giving the Digital Millennium Copyright Act a passing grade is a disaster for the general public, say critics... |
InternetNews
July 20, 2007 |
Big Steps For Patent Reform Strongly favored by the technology sector and equally opposed by the biotechnology and manufacturing industries, The Patent Reform Bill of 2007 would represent the first significant changes in patent law in several decades. |
Searcher
September 2012
Peter B. Hirtle |
Feature: When is 1923 Going to Arrive and Other Complications of the u.s. Public Domain The public domain has always existed, but the rise of digital and networked technologies has made it particularly important. Our copyright laws represent an agreement among powerful publishing and media interests that is intended to work for their mutual benefit. |
InternetNews
January 15, 2009
Kenneth Corbin |
New Clashes Await Over Digital Copyright Does government need to do more to curtail piracy, or are media industries threatening the freedom of the Internet? |
AskMen.com
Ross Bonander |
5 Things You Didn't Know: Copyright Copyright constitutes one aspect of intellectual property law; here are five things you may not know about it. |
InternetNews
September 30, 2004
Roy Mark |
Senate Panel Delays Induce Act Vote Again Controversial legislation directed at P2P copyright infringement stalls for third consecutive week. |
InternetNews
September 28, 2004
Roy Mark |
New Induce Act Prompts Old Complaints Critics claim the bill will open digital music player makers to copyright infringement liability. |
