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Critics: EU in pocket of big-music interests
News European Union copyright policy on the Net is being unfairly influenced by the big five media companies, according to a consortium of leading Internet entrepreneurs. Philipson accuses EU policy-makers of being in the pocket of the "big five" (BMG...
[September 29, 1999, 10:02]
A Year Ago: Brits tick off RealNetworks
News The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) will fire off a missive to RealNetworks for failing to alert users on copyright issues with its CD Streamer product -- a product it markets for US software company, Super Planet.
[September 9, 1999, 7:00]
Net laughs at itself on April Fool's
News File-swapping company Napster has purchased Microsoft for more than $328bn and is planning to file a copyright infringement lawsuit against itself. Microsoft's MSN has launched the Gates Open Directory, otherwise known as GOD, which seeks to...
[April 2, 2002, 14:58]
Microsoft: We didn't break the law
News Citing copyright laws, a 1998 appeals court ruling and Jackson's findings of fact, Microsoft claimed it is not a monopoly and did not break federal antitrust laws by tying Internet Explorer to Windows or striking exclusionary agreements with its...
[January 19, 2000, 17:10]
Rights group defends P2P in ad campaign
News The Electronic Frontier Foundation has launched an advertising campaign demanding changes in copyright law to legalise file sharing. Shari Steele, the executive director of the EFF, said in a statement that copyright law is "out of step with the...
[July 1, 2003, 15:26]
Judge puts file swappers in hot seat
News A federal judge on Monday ordered a trio of popular file-swapping services to stand trial on copyright infringement charges, ending a bid to bring a quick end to their legal troubles with the entertainment industry.
[March 5, 2002, 9:50]
Pornography site files suit against Google
News Adult content publisher Perfect 10 is seeking an injunction against Google to stop the search giant from allegedly displaying copyright images of its models. Perfect 10 first became aware of Google serving up text links to other Web sites that...
[August 26, 2005, 15:10]
Noose tightens on Napster clones
News Operators of peer-to-peer networks cannot escape copyright infringement claims by giving their members the ability to mask the content that changes hands on their networks, a federal appeals court ruled on Monday.
[July 1, 2003, 9:06]
Napster faces further legal action
News Unimpressed by Napster's efforts to strip copyright songs out of its file-trading network, the record industry says it will go to court next week to complain that the company is flouting the terms of a court order.
[March 22, 2001, 8:37]
RealNetworks makes streamed music pirate-proof
News Copyright technology that will allow Internet retailers to track the sale and distribution of music and movies over the Web is being launched today by RealNetworks, in an effort to stop the illegal distribution of media online.
[June 20, 2001, 14:38]
Software pirates face ten years in jail
News The House of Commons has agreed to bring in significant changes to the copyright law that will mean someone convicted of software piracy could face ten years' imprisonment and an unlimited fine. The changes are contained in the Copyright, etc.and...
[April 15, 2002, 16:31]
RealNetworks vs. Streambox continues
News RealNetworks' copyright lawsuit against Streambox took another step forward Friday when a judge refused to lift a temporary restraining order preventing Streambox from offering several products. RealNetworks is suing Streambox under the Digital...
[January 10, 2000, 13:13]
Amazon refuses to hand over book search 'secrets'
News Amazon.com has declined to hand over information on its book search tools to Google for use in a copyright lawsuit. Google has decided to scan and index entire libraries of books, regardless of their copyright status, as part of its Google Book...
[October 26, 2006, 11:20]
Music pirate faces prison term
News The US Department of Justice said on Thursday that it had accepted a guilty plea in a criminal copyright case involving the former leader of a Net music piracy group called the Apocalypse Crew. Buccaneer has targeted many other individuals, however...
[August 22, 2003, 10:45]
US anti-piracy law gathers strength
News In a move that's alarming technology firms, the US Copyright Office is about to endorse new legislation that would outlaw peer-to-peer networks and possibly some consumer electronics devices that could be used for copyright piracy.
[July 22, 2004, 8:20]
Napster hit with lawsuit from rock group Metallica
News The rock group Metallica has sued Napster and several colleges, claiming, among other things, that they violated copyright law by allowing illegal swapping of its music. San Mateo, California-based Napster already is the target of a suit by the...
[April 14, 2000, 8:27]
Google suspends plan to scan the world's books
News Google put its plan to scan and copy books from five of the world's top libraries on hold on Thursday, citing copyright problems. The company announced its Google Print programme in October 2004 as a way "for publishers to make their books...
[August 15, 2005, 15:40]
File-swapping legal fight gathers steam
News The US Copyright Office has drafted a new version of the Induce Act that it believes will ban networks such as Kazaa and Morpheus while not putting hardware such as portable hard drives and MP3 players on the wrong side of the law.
[September 3, 2004, 9:35]
FAST accused of indoctrinating children
News The Federation against Software Theft (FAST) has been roundly criticised by open source advocates after revealing that it is integrating its software copyright message into an academic qualification. Through our experience in educating...
[June 8, 2006, 16:50]
Anti-P2P software 'spies' on user data
Talkback Erm if this software is intercepting network traffic and making a copy to analyse for copyrighted material not gonna be violateing the copyright themselves. I understaand that maybe it will get a license for the stuff the RIAA want blocked thus...
[September 11, 2003, 13:40]
