DMCA News

You may recall that Ford has been rather aggressive in telling fans of various Ford cars that they have no right to create things like calendars from photos they, themselves, have taken.

Toyota, one of the biggest car companies in the world, is often a name synonymous with quality.

It would appear that Wal-Mart's lawyers need to come up with excuses to keep billing Wal-Mart every year around this time.

By Ray Beckerman . About the RIAA's attempt to monopolize digital music by redefining copyright law, through the commencement of tens of thousands of extortionate lawsuits against ordinary working people.

The EFF birthday cards . * Speaking of the DMCA, Sen. McCain got a first-hand experience with it when his lawyer complained to YouTube that YouTube was taking down campaign videos in response to 512 notices ...

While the on-air sparring between Barack Obama and John McCain is finally over, another battle may be brewing, propelled by the very same commercials and Web videos the campaigns used to attack each other.

This is the second post in a three-part series outlining how the new leadership in Congress and the White House can restore some of the civil liberties we've lost over the past eight years.

November 12, 2008, 03:12 PM - bsa.org - The Digital Millennium Copyright Act , enacted ten years ago in October 1998, has been a oea stunning success,a according to the leaders of the global software and motion ...

MALIBU, Calif., Nov 10, 2008 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX/ -- Today, Nexicon , an emerging provider of next generation digital media protection and digital media business intelligence solutions announces ...

As various forms of media have gone digital, it has become far easier to make exact copies of material, including material that happens to be under copyright.

W00t! w00t! w00t! Seems that sanity has prevailed in this one case at least. A whining baby who seems to have an identity crisis and has lacked a hit song for over a decade has been just lost to a cute, ...

A poll on the MobileRead forums asked how respondents dealt with DRM on e-books: by not buying books with DRM, buying books with minimally restrictive DRM, buying encrypted books and then breaking the DRM, and ...

Honeywell has filed a lawsuit against bar code scanning company Datalogic , alleging copyright infringement, breach of contract and other infractions.

The new national administration in January will have the opportunity to set the direction on many fronts.

Politics:- It isn't so much that Barack Obama is to be America's first black president: he is, after all, cross-cultural. It's that finally, the reign of the corrupt Cheney / Bush government which has brought ...

Despite mountains of DMCA takedown notices, pirated content still gets posted on video sharing sites.

You may remember last month that we had a story about Google taking down a video on Google Video for copyright infringement, even though the video itself was set to private, and only 3 or 4 people had seen it.

Advocacy organization Public Knowledge is noting the anniversary with a series of posts on its policy blog , as well as video interviews .

The blogosphere is doing a great job examining the legacy of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act , which was enacted into law ten years ago this week .

Politics:- Today is the day newly re-anointed Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper will tell us who'll be acting for, and on behalf of, Hollywood and the corporate music industry for the next little while.