Digital Rights Management News

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.

Apple agreed to a partial settlement in their ongoing legal battle over Mac clones at the end of November, and Psystar agreed to pay Apple over US$2.67 million in damages and legal fees in the deal.

What makes this development special is that online customers dona t have to register and provide personal information before purchasing the music as MP3 files.

Wendy Seltzer has posted an article that will run in Berkeley technology Law Journal .

Here's a superb essay on the other DRM problem -- DRM isn't only bad for fair use, it's also a disaster for innovation, because it forecloses on the possibility of disruptive new technologies .

Digital Libraries are increasingly playing a vital role in business, research and education and facilitating 'anytime, anywhere access' to knowledge resources.

Adobe DRM will get some loving attention from me in a post later this week. Meanwhile guess which topics come up in a Slate piece on Black Friday deals as bait for suckers ? Clashing e-book formats and DRM.

The British Library Improves Electronic Access with New DRM Platform from leading provider, FileOpen Systems Responding to customer demand, the British Library, supplying over 1.6m articles every year to researchers all over the world, has added FileOpen to its choice of delivery options via its Document Supply Service.

Today BioWare announced what you'll need to join Commander Shepard on his latest adventure.

ShareStream, a leading provider of rich media-management and delivery platforms for higher education, announced this week that it will be co-hosting a Webinar with Sun Microsystems Inc.

Akella, one of the key players in publishing, development and distribution of video games in Russia and CIS, has chosen Byteshield© to protect their PC games against piracy.

Most Americans expect that their laws are only passed after some period of public debate between Republicans and Democrats or their news-channel proxies.

Moscow-headquartered Akella, developer of Disciples III , Age of Sail 2 and other titles, said Thursday it signed a deal with Byteshield to provide DRM for its PC games in order to counter piracy.

Last year Hollywood introduced a new feature called the Digital Copy. It's supposed to be a solution for watching your movies on your portable media player, and has been promoted as the legal alternative to ripping and encoding movies at home.

The Kindle is finally coming to Canada. Amazon.com announced Tuesday that the popular ebook reader, with its high-resolution 15-centimetre screen, is now available to Canadians.

Get our new Windows 7 eBook for $7 with 70+ Tips. Download Now ! Monday, November 16th, 2009 by the oracle With the ruling on the weekend, and Apple lawyers putting the final stake in rogue company Psystar's heart, it is clear to see that you just don't mess with the legal system put in place by the computer industry, which may be the thing that ...

Michael Fricklas, Viacom's General Counsel, gave a lecture to a Yale Law class in which he confessed that suing people for copyright infringement felt "like terrorism." He says that this was bad strategy on the entertainment industry's part, as was "bad" DRM.

Travel Tuesday, November 17, 2009 Microsoft and IBM DRM Patents On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents .Today's Spotlight Patents address aspects of DRM .

Even if they did that, Psystar wouldn't have had a prayer. The DCMA is very clear about the legality of modifying copy protected software so as to defeat the copy protection.

Hollywood never tires of demanding stronger content protection measures, and in this case the victim of the squeeze play was the BBC.