DMCA News

The list includes such gems as forced filtering of materials by the ISPs, gutting the parts of the DMCA that provides safe harbor to the ISPs, and even restricting supplies of 'optical grade polycarbonate' in ...

Just before the holiday weekend, media giant Viacom won a legal victory over YouTube that set off fireworks across the Internet.

Yesterday, a district court dismissed several claims in the case Coupons, Inc. v. Stottlemire , in which we had, in March, filed an amicus brief .

Mark Cuban has a weird obsession with trying to convince people that YouTube is illegal, despite plenty of evidence to the contrary.

The ongoing Google/YouTube-Viacom litigation has now officially spilled over to users with a court order requiring Google to turn over massive amounts of user data to Viacom.

Jesse Willis went to see the new Disney/Pixar movie Wall-E and discovered that the lovable little robot is actually a dire criminal -- because he undertakes a variety of copying activities that will be illegal ...

The record label EMI has sued ad network VideoEgg and social networking site Hi5.com for copyright infringement based on music videos uploaded by users.

Chances are you've heard all about the now-'resolved' dispute that opposed the Associated Press to social news sharing site Drudge Retort , over the fair - or unfair - use of AP quotes.

I got a comment from Ian Lamont, managing editor of The Industry Standard, wondering why we didn't introduce the concept of "Fair Use" in our story about media companies using content recognition systems to go ...

Media fingerprint technology isn't exactly new. Movie studios use it when they send out screeners to track down who's leaking copies of Hancock on BitTorrent.

The folks from Open Source Cinema have reedited their "Copyright Criminals" video to feature Canadian Member of Parliament Charlie Angus and a host of Canadians who don't want Bill C-61, the Canadian Digital ...

Wednesday, June 25, 2008 The logo of The Associated Press The Associated Press news agency has come under fire from the blogging community after issuing a number of DMCA takedown notices against bloggers who ...

On June 12, the federal government introduced Bill C-61, an Act to Amend the Copyright Act.

Jay Adelson, the chief executive of Digg, told Saul Hansell of the New York Times how the social news site responds to DMCA takedowns : From time to time, Digg has received a request, under the Digital ...

PSD via Flickr AP and the Drudge Retort have resolved their copyright issue -- but do bloggers, journalists, and others remain on thin ice? This week I've been covering what appears to be an assault by the ...

Canadian DMCA will criminalize emailing your kids' class photos to their grandparents : Michael Geist continues his ongoing series on activities that will be illegal under Canada's new copyright act, the ...

So what does the proposed copyright legislation, Bill C61, have in store for you? Aside from not being able to download free music any more, it puts all sorts of limitations on intellectual property and how it ...

The Associated Press, upset that some in the online world might be stealing its audience by reprinting brief quotes from news stories and then linking the source, embarked on a recent campaign to curtail the ...

' The Canadian Internet Policy & Public Interest Clinic of the Faculty of Law at the University of Ottawa is concerned with the contents of Bill C-61, An Act to amend the Copyright Act.

Sometimes a news item comes out of nowhere, and it feels like a press release went through a time warp and just arrived from a decade ago.