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US firm puts pressure on overseas ISPs

Australian Internet service providers have been pressured by a US company to terminate the contracts of customers accused of breaching copyright Read more

14 January, 2003 by James Pearce

US lawmakers reject changes to digital copyright law

...cheating. The Copyright Office decided against any legislative change to the US digital copyright law, and concluded that "the transmission of a work from one... Read more

10 September, 2001 by Wendy McAuliffe

Digital copyright law on trial

A researcher argues that the DMCA will prevent him from carrying out legally-protected studies of Internet filtering software. The case could be the first to limit the controversial law's broad reach Read more

31 October, 2002 by Declan McCullagh
Obama's search for a national CTO

Obama's search for a national CTO

As Barack Obama's transition team assembles an administration, it could look to one of its own to fill the role of chief technology officer Read more

7 November, 2008 by Stephanie Condon

Google CEO wants techies to teach governments

...pipes — the "revenge of the Bell companies", as Schmidt put it — and digital copyright law. Online service providers such as Google, which routinely grapple with... Read more

18 October, 2006 by Anne Broache

Hollywood homes in on student swappers

New technology automatically cuts off the access of pirating students after notification from a record label or movie studio Read more

19 April, 2004 by Stefanie Olsen

Lobbyists seek to 'Click the Vote'

...This isn't the first attempt to turn the widespread dissatisfaction with digital copyright law -- along with campaigns such as the Recording Industry Association of... Read more

3 December, 2003 by John Borland

DMCA 'doesn't apply' to garage-door opener case

...case was widely viewed as an extreme example of the application of digital copyright law and was held up by critics of the DMCA as... Read more

17 November, 2003 by John Borland

Copyright law catches IT firms off guard

...protections. The UK adopted what many consider to be Europe's toughest digital copyright law, with the stated aim of protecting a media industry that... Read more

12 November, 2003 by Matthew Broersma

Norway piracy case brings activists hope

...some sanity creeping in." The EFF and others have been concerned that digital copyright law hampers legitimate research into encryption and other technological matters and... Read more

9 January, 2003 by Lisa M Bowman

Royalties killed the Web radio star

...fees, which were required as the result of an entertainment industry-backed digital copyright law passed in 1998. The advent of online radio has made... Read more

22 July, 2002 by Lisa M Bowman

Kazaa finds friends in file-swapping fight

...linked telecommunications and copyright policies since the 1998 passage of a landmark digital copyright law known as the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). However, with... Read more

16 May, 2002 by John Borland

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