DMCA News

I never expected to stumble upon a Digital Millennium Copyright Act story while standing beneath an unshielded light bulb in my garage, but that was before I picked up the manual for my garage door opener.

The record label EMI has sued video site Vimeo for copyright infringement, alleging that the company goads users to post video clips of themselves lip synching songs by musicians like Billy Idol and KT Tunstall.

There are reported to be 11 apps in total available, ranging from versions of games like Doom , Quake and Wolfenstein to non game-specific apps such as a Doom Soundboard, according to GamePolitics .

A few weeks ago, I wrote about a deluge of DMCA notices and pre-settlement letters that CoralCDN experienced in late August.

Mini music label Blue Destiny Records has sued both Google and Microsoft for allegedly "facilitating and enabling" the illegal distribution of copyrighted songs.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation is trying to make Universal Music pay damages for unfairly taking a home video of a toddler dancing to a Prince song off YouTube.

Eric Schmidt's presence at a swanky music industry gathering was an illustration of how far digital technology has come and the power it has amassed.

In my last post on William Patry's worthless book , , , I documented two simple points: The rhetoric and metaphors in Copyright Wars are indefensible.

Yahoo isn't happy that a detailed menu of the spying services it provides law enforcement agencies has leaked onto the web.

Considering recent court rulings in Apple's favor, Cupertino has basically already won its legal assault on Psystar.

Yahoo: '$20 for the first ID ' p2pnet news view Freedom P2P:- A Yahoo is "anyone who is uncultured, ignorant, or stupid " or in Australia, an "uncouth lout". Urban Dictionary .

The copyright-forever crowd is once again trying to turn copyright into a card that trumps civil liberties, due process, and Constitutional limitations.

Once again, I'm delighted to return to a Boing Boing seasonal tradition: a charitable giving guide, a list of charities we personally support and want to give more attention to.

Getting a movie from a DVD into iTunes isn't nearly as simple as ripping music from a CD.

Computerworld notes that unauthorized Mac clone manufacturer Psystar has stopped offering its line of PC hardware with Mac OS X preinstalled in the wake of a settlement agreement with Apple.

Editor's Note: This story is excerpted from Computerworld . For more Mac coverage, visit Computerworld's Macintosh Knowledge Center .

Found via BoingBoing : a 54-page law journal essay by Wendy Seltzer discussing how Digital Rights Management anti-circumvention laws prevent almost all innovation around the media that they protect.

Politics:- America wants to to push laws that reach beyond WIPO net treaties and beyond current European Union law, "confirming the U.S. desire to promote a three-strikes and you're out policy," says Michael Geist , quoting from a leaked European Commission analysis of the ACTA Internet chapter.

Music:- "A 16-year Gold Coast kid is promoting the theft of music with his new site Vye Music," says Undercover.com in Australia.

"The Mac clone maker now fighting for its life in federal court pitched an extremely aggressive business plan to potential investors last year, claiming that it would sell as many as 12 million machines in 2011," Gregg Keizer reports for Computerworld.