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Salon.com September 13, 2000 Damien Cave |
A bug in the legal code? David Touretzky talks about methamphetamines, DeCSS and the death of the First Amendment. If you can censor the Web, there will eventually be nothing immune to your reach... |
Salon.com July 19, 2000 Damien Cave |
Code on trial Does the DVD-decrypting DeCSS do for video what Napster did for music, and can copyright law stop it? |
New Architect May 2002 Lincoln D. Stein |
Two Cases, Two Outcomes Software expression versus function: the movie industry may have won the CSS battle, but it seems to have lost the war... |
Salon.com September 1, 2000 Damien Cave |
DeCSS Down Under A U.S. ban on the DVD-decrypting code is only egging on Australian hackers -- and an odd songwriter. |
Salon.com August 7, 2000 Damien Cave |
A hacker crackdown? As the long arm of the law reaches Napster and its lookalikes, programmers could be held responsible for what others do with their code. |
Salon.com May 19, 2000 Damien Cave |
Does anybody care about fighting the DMCA? A protest at Stanford against the ultra-restrictive copyright law generates little heat and sparse attendance... |
PC World January 7, 2003 Gillian Law |
Defendant Acquitted in DVD Hacking Case Update: While Norwegian teen is cleared, anyone who attempts to bypass copy controls could find themselves in serious trouble, experts say. |
InternetNews May 3, 2005 Roy Mark |
High Court Refuses Digital Copyright Appeal The Supreme Court rejected an appeal by Internetmovies.com over an erroneous takedown notice from the Motion Picture Association of America issued under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. |
Information Today March 25, 2013 George H. Pike |
A 'Total Victory' for the First Sale Doctrine from the Supreme Court In a powerful and conclusive opinion, the U.S. Supreme Court declared that copyright's First Sale doctrine applies to all legal copyrighted works regardless of where they are manufactured. |
InternetNews January 5, 2005 Roy Mark |
Court Rejects DMCA Subpoena Process ... Again Decision upholds earlier ruling that music industry must use traditional subpoenas in P2P legal wars. |
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... |
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... |
New Architect March 2003 Bret A. Fausett |
Hooray RIAA Media companies try our patience, but they're advancing Internet law. |
Salon.com January 17, 2003 Siva Vaidhyanathan |
After the copyright smackdown: What next? Don't despair at the Supreme Court's gift to Disney, says one expert. The fight has really only just begun. |
InternetNews December 19, 2003 Roy Mark |
ISPs Win a Round in File-Swapping Tussle In a major blow to the music industry's campaign to sue individual file-swappers, court sides with Internet service providers over revealing customers' identities. |
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... |
InternetNews February 21, 2006 Susan Kuchinskas |
Google and A9 May Stop Showing Perfect 10s Adult publisher Perfect 10 won a partial victory in its efforts to stop search engines' display of its photos in image search results. |
Information Today October 28, 2014 George H. Pike |
Appeals Court Reverses Georgia State Fair Use Decision A federal appellate court reversed a fair use finding in favor of Georgia State University in its long-standing copyright dispute with several academic publishers. |
InternetNews May 1, 2007 Michael Hickins |
Google Says Viacom Suit 'Threatens Expression' Google claims YouTube rules abide by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. |
InternetNews October 12, 2004 Roy Mark |
High Court Bounces Latest RIAA Effort The U.S. Supreme Court today rejected industry's effort to revive a controversial practice that briefly forced ISPs to reveal the identities of thousands of accused peer-to-peer music pirates with no notice to the alleged infringers. |
Searcher October 2001 Dave Rensberger |
Swinging the Big Bat: Power Versus Technology Digital content is endlessly flexible and slippery. Providers all up and down the line wake up to the fact that content itself may not be the cash cow they thought it was. The real profits are in the control of the delivery systems... |
Home Theater August 13, 2009 Mark Fleischmann |
RealDVD Deemed Illegal Court rules against disc copying application but does not condemn fair use. |
Wired October 2000 John Heilemann |
David Boies: The Wired Interview Wired and Boies talked for several hours about the lawyer's defense strategy for the Napster case, the future of intellectual property and free speech in a networked world, and how it feels for this David to be taking on yet another Goliath... |
Salon.com October 16, 2002 Farhad Manjoo |
U.S. Embassy to Dmitry Sklyarov: Access denied The Russian programmer expected to testify in the first DMCA criminal trial can't get a visa to visit the United States. |
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 December 17, 2002 Matt Berger |
Verdict Delivers Blow to the DMCA Jury finds ElcomSoft not guilty, a ruling seen as a setback for enforcing the controversial digital copyright law. |
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 July 27, 2010 |
DMCA Ruling Allows iPhone Jailbreaks The Library of Congress has determined that users can modify, or jailbreak, their iPhones and other devices under the fair use protections of that statute. |
Search Engine Watch December 4, 2008 Sage Lewis |
How the Wal-mart Grinch Stole Black Friday Link Love When Wal-mart invoked the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to get online news sites to remove links to its Black Friday sales circular, Wal-mart missed out on some link love. |
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. |
Information Today January 20, 2003 George H. Pike |
Supreme Court Affirms Copyright Term Extension Act On Jan. 15, 2003, the U.S. Supreme Court released its much anticipated opinion upholding the 1998 Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act. The act extended the term of existing copyrights by 20 years, and also provided for longer terms for future copyrights, at least 70 years and in some cases well over 120 years. |
ONLINE Sep/Oct 2002 Marydee Ojala |
Deep Thinking Eludes Deep Linking Detractors Just when I thought the deep linking legal controversies had been conquered, two European courts revived the issues. |
InternetNews February 28, 2007 Roy Mark |
Fair Use Bill Would Unlock DMCA New legislation would allow consumers to make digital copies for home networks. |
BusinessWeek February 10, 2011 Paul M. Barrett |
Attack of the Commerce Clause A new assault on regulation is gathering force -- and it's deploying a constitutional weapon |
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. |
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 July 2001 Mike Godwin |
Copywrong Why the Digital Millennium Copyright Act hurts the public interest... |
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. |
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? |
Salon.com April 26, 2001 Janelle Brown |
Is the RIAA running scared? A fumbled attempt to silence a Princeton professor backfires on the recording industry... |
InternetNews July 20, 2007 Nicholas Carlson |
Google, Viacom Lawyers Square Off on DMCA Viacom and Google go to court July 27 to decide which of the two companies should bear the cost of keeping Viacom's copyrighted content off YouTube. The outcome could impact blogs and photo-sharing sites, and stifle Web 2.0. |
BusinessWeek July 14, 2003 Heather Green |
Hollywood's Most Wanted St. Louis-based 321's software allows people to protect their $19.95 investment in prerecorded DVDs by making copies before they're lost or damaged. To Hollywood, the software is no less than a tool for piracy. That has sparked controversy over just what's permissible under the law. |
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? |
The Motley Fool March 9, 2011 David Lee Smith |
Chevron's Woes in Ecuador Likely to Linger Chevron's environmental lawsuit in Ecuador could drag on for eons. |
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? |
Salon.com June 16, 2000 Damien Cave |
Did Judge Jackson goof? By forcing Microsoft to comply with conduct remedies in 90 days, Jackson may have put the case exactly where he doesn't want it -- in the Court of Appeals. |
Information Today May 2007 David Mirchin |
Copyright: Viacom's $1 Billion Claim Against YouTube Viacom claims that YouTube has actively infringed Viacom's copyrighted works by publicly performing more than 150,000 unauthorized clips of copyrighted programming owned by Viacom. The outcome could rewrite the rules on content. |
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. |
Information Today October 6, 2015 George H. Pike |
The Legal Implications of Banned Books Week The American Library Association's annual Banned Books Week celebrates the freedom to read by drawing attention to attempts to censor reading materials in public, school, and academic libraries. |
PC World November 27, 2000 Clare Haney & Margret Johnston, IDG News Service |
Microsoft Tailors Its Tune to Appeals Court Attorneys assess Microsoft's all-out assault on federal judge, adversaries, and competitors in latest legal brief... |