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InternetNews June 22, 2004 Roy Mark |
Fair Use Bill Gains New Momentum House Energy and Commerce chairman endorses bill to expand consumer rights under the DMCA. |
InternetNews February 28, 2007 Roy Mark |
Fair Use Bill Would Unlock DMCA New legislation would allow consumers to make digital copies for home networks. |
PC World August 31, 2001 Frank Thorsberg |
Will Copyright Law Kill Your Computing Habits? The Digital Millennium Copyright Act faces scrutiny and its first cases--including Sklyarov's prosecution. |
PC World January 8, 2003 Grant Gross |
Bill Would Allow Copying of Music, Movies Digital Media Consumer Rights Acts would permit consumers to break the copy controls on CDs and DVDs to make personal copies. |
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... |
Reason July 2001 Mike Godwin |
Copywrong Why the Digital Millennium Copyright Act hurts the public interest... |
PC World January 2002 Frank Thorsberg & Tom Spring |
New Shackles on Your CD, Video Copying In an effort to stem piracy, entertainment companies are placing new copy restrictions into their products... |
PC Magazine November 30, 2005 Bill Machrone |
If I Told You, I'd Have to . . . It's illegal to talk about how to circumvent copy protection. In your home, in your car, anywhere. Get the picture? |
PC World November 2002 Dylan F. Tweney |
Hollywood vs. Your PC Movie and music moguls are hopping mad over the new technologies that are transforming digital entertainment. Washington is listening. what's at risk? Your ability to enjoy DVDs and CDs you've bought, your privacy -- even your control over your PC. |
InternetNews May 5, 2006 Roy Mark |
Fair Use Faltering Satellite radio plans for a handheld that records broadcasts has Hollywood in a dither. |
InternetNews April 14, 2006 David Miller |
Report Details DMCA Misuses A new report from the Electronic Frontier Foundation takes aim at the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, a controversial law enacted seven years ago to protect intellectual property in the digital age. |
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. |
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... |
New Architect March 2002 Mark Baugher |
Legal and Binding Does the DMCA Threaten Open Standards Development? |
Information Today August 5, 2010 George H. Pike |
Digital Copyright Exemptions Benefit Educators, Filmmakers and Smartphone Owners The Librarian of Congress recently approved several new exemptions to the anti-circumvention provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. |
Reason May 2002 Mike Godwin |
Hollywood vs. the Internet Why entertainment companies want to hack your computer... |
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. |
Search Engine Watch September 26, 2007 Grant Crowell |
Copyright Law: What Search Marketers Should Know (Part 1) Most online copyright infringement issues are best handled by being diplomatic and professional, and can be handled with some simple legal procedures. |
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. |
Information Today December 31, 2007 George H. Pike |
Congress Proposes to Enhance IP Enforcement and Penalties The Prioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual Property (PRO-IP) Act, H.R. 4279, proposes a number of steps to strengthen the enforcement of copyright, trademark, and patent laws and to increase criminal and civil penalties for copyright infringement. |
Salon.com March 13, 2002 Damien Cave |
Chained melodies Copyright-holding corporations are pushing new laws and computer-crippling technologies in their war on piracy. But can anything keep geeks from copying the music and movies they crave? |
PC World November 19, 2002 Michelle Madigan |
Copy Control Complaint Desk Opens Formal public comment on DMCA invited for one month, then feds will reconsider act. |
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. |
InternetNews November 11, 2005 Roy Mark |
Public Knowledge Pans AG's Copyright Proposal Digital rights group Public Knowledge picks apart legislation that puts copyright theft in criminal code. |
PC World October 2004 Michael Desmond |
Sneaky Sharing Despite well-publicized wins by piracy foes, illegal digital music and movie trading continues to flourish in underground havens. |
PC World March 2006 Dan Tynan |
Hollywood vs.Your PC: Round 2 Legal options in digital entertainment are growing. But they come with restrictions that can hobble your ability to enjoy the content you've paid for and even threaten your control over your system. |
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 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. |
PC World March 14, 2002 Tom Spring |
Battle Intensifies Over Right to Copy Consumer, industry groups joust in Congress over rights and wrongs of sharing, seeing, and storing digital entertainment... |
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. |
PC World January 14, 2003 Malaika Costello-Dougherty |
A Truce Over Copy Controls? Hollywood, tech industries agree to fight piracy and legislation, but support technical restrictions. |
IEEE Spectrum April 2008 Kirk Teska |
What Can You (Legally) Take From the Web? Web sites and bloggers beware: copyright law applies to you too. |
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 November 2001 Stephanie C. Ardito |
Legal Issues - The Case of Dmitry Sklyarov Some of us who regularly write about intellectual property issues jokingly refer to publishers as the "copyright police," and contemplate being thrown into "copyright jail" for "violating" fair-use laws. Now a civilian is being tried by the U.S. government for such a "crime"... |
Information Today November 28, 2011 George H. Pike |
Controversy Surrounds Stop Online Piracy Act as Mark-Up Approaches The Stop Online Piracy Act was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives. A companion bill to the previously introduced PROTECT-IP Act, SOPA would give both government officials and content owners new authority to go after "rogue websites." |
D-Lib November 2000 Peter B. Hirtle |
Editorial: Paying to Read? Will the information that comprises our digital libraries be available for free in the future? Will we at least have a level of access to information comparable to what we have now to information in print form in non-digital libraries? If we have to pay for information access, can the public afford it? |
InternetNews October 27, 2006 Andy Patrizio |
Will 'DVD Jon' Strike Again With iTunes? The guy who broke DVD encryption goes after iTunes. Is he tempting fate? |
PC World September 2005 Laurianne McLaughlin |
Copyright Crackdown New XCP2 technology on music CDs limits the number of copies you can make -- and gets in the way of putting tunes on an IPod. |
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. |
Search Engine Watch September 27, 2007 Grant Crowell |
Copyright Law: What Search Marketers Should Know (Part 2) Addressing copyright infringement issues can be a tricky business. Take the time to plan out your approach so you can get through it quickly and easily. |
InternetNews October 18, 2006 Roy Mark |
Universal Sues Video Sites The simmering legal questions surrounding video sites and their use of copyrighted material hit the courts for the first time late Monday with Universal Music Group filing infringement suits against Grouper and Bolt. |
PC World February 2003 Tom Spring |
Tool Copies DVD Movies 321 Studios challenges Hollywood, DMCA with release of DVD X copy. |
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? |
PC World December 2003 Anne Kandra |
To Copy or Not to Copy? Here's what the law says you can -- and can't -- do with digital media files. |
InternetNews June 16, 2006 Roy Mark |
Holy Analog Hole, Batman! Hollywood's latest efforts to roll back fair use rights involves technology developed for a cartoon show. Really. |
InternetNews May 25, 2007 Gerit Quealy |
All's Fair in Fair Use? The Viacom/Google-YouTube copyright skirmish could be the latest in a string of lawsuits desperately attempting to clarify what constitutes fair use. |
D-Lib December 1999 |
Digital Dilemma Intellectual Property: Synopsis and Views on the Study by the National Academies' Committee on Intellectual Property Rights and the Emerging Information Infrastructure |
Information Today June 24, 2014 George H. Pike |
First Sale Hearing Raises Questions on Kirtsaeng and Digital Goods A congressional hearing on the future of the first sale doctrine produced great discussion but little consensus on whether Congress should modify the doctrine in response to the Supreme Court's decision. |
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 July 23, 2004 Roy Mark |
Hatch Vows P2P Action This Year Senator wants to go after those who produce technologies that "induce" copyright infringement... Business Software Alliance, IEEE fight the measure. |