Australian Government Calls BS On Bogus Copyright Industry ‘Losses’
We've spent years complaining about the completely bogus stats put out by the likes of the BSA, the RIAA and MPAA about just how much "piracy" is costing them. These ...
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YouTube Removing Comedy Central Clips
YouTube has been removing all copyrighted content from the Comedy Central Network after a request was made for them to take them down. The removal includes clips of "South ...
BittTorrent Halloween Breakdown: Top Torrents
Despite the best efforts of the RIAA, MPAA, and others to trick people into a state of fear and reticence over file-sharing, BitTorrent users continued to be treated ...
Is the DMCA Coming Down Under? New Copyright Bill on Fast-Track in Australia
As a result of a Free Trade Agreement between Australia and the U.S. that came into force in 2005, Australia is required to rewrite its current, relatively flexible, technological protection ...
Music Downloading’s New Deal
The threat of recording industry lawsuits has certainly given pause to peer-to-peer music file-sharing services. Few have dared show their servers on U.S. soil since the Supreme Court in 2005 ...
UK urged to update copyright law to decriminalize Apple iPod users
UK copyright law should be changed to include a ‘private right to copy’ that protects users of Apple iPod and other MP3 players, according to a new report published today ...
Digital Freedom Campaign Begins, Claims Right to Download Movies, Music
Technology companies took aim at the film and recording industries yesterday for their efforts to restrict how consumers use movie and music downloads.
The Digital Freedom Campaign plans to teach lawmakers, ...
Wikipedia: “If we had 10 million bucks to buy copyrights what should we buy?”
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Device lobbyist taking fight to consumers
Gary Shapiro is riled up and thinks you should be, too.
What's got the head of the Consumer Electronics Association so upset? The state of copyright law, the set of rules ...
YouTube deletes 29,549 videos at request of Japanese broadcasters, copyright groups
A total of 29,549 videos were deleted from video streaming site YouTube following a request from copyright-related rights organizations, NHK and other broadcasters, the Japanese Society for Rights of Authors, ...
European Artists Defend Copyright Fees
European filmmakers and musicians spoke out Wednesday against any possible EU moves to end copyright levies on electronic equipment, saying this would deprive them of fair compensation for people copying ...
Television in the age of bittorrent
Television faces a distribution dilemma. After having had technologies like Tivo chip away at the notion that tv programs should be watched on the network’s schedule, the networks are now ...
Arista va. Limewire lawsuit gets a schedule
The case of Arista vs Limewire has been officially granted a place on the docket in the state of New York. Limewire had asked previously for a jury trial, rejecting ...
Google Subpoenas Competition Regarding Book Search
Google has been involved in litigation with the Authors Guild who disagree that scanning books and presenting small portions of them, called "snippets", is legal according to copyright and fair ...
Who will lobby for our right to copy?
First, a disclosure, I recently committed a crime: I copied a CD I had bought on to my hard disk and this is illegal under section 16 of the Copyright, ...
Audio of activist lawyer talk on Broadcast Flag and Chilling Effects
The audio of Wendy Seltzer's talk at my USC lecture series is now online. Wendy, an activist lawyer, is the co-founder of Chilling Effects and the Digital Television Liberation Front, ...
Boston College sees spike in illegal downloads
Despite the proliferation of legal downloading programs like iTunes, Ruckus, and Napster, it seems Boston College students still favor illegal, and typically free means to fill up their iPods.
As of ...
Hays(Kansas) man faces suit over music file-sharing
A man from Hays is getting personal attention from the record labels of his favorite pop music artists: Eminem, Korn, Jennifer Lopez, The Eagles....
A federal lawsuit, however, is not exactly ...
Digital Payback: Mom Sued For Kids’ Downloading
The recording industry is making good on threats to legally pursue people who illegally downloaded music over the past few years, and their long arm aiming to hit a Chicago ...
Music industry settles digital royalties quarrel
A long-running digital music royalties spat between record companies and organisations collecting on artists' behalf has been settled.
Copyright holders will net eight per cent of the gross earnings from their ...
