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Twitter to censor posts by country

A new system allows the social media service to block certain tweets in some countries while showing them in others, which a legal expert says could enhance freedom of speech rather than stifling it Read more

27 January, 2012 by David Meyer

Megaupload takedown shows need for fresh debate

...any other new laws, but thanks to existing legislation, chiefly the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DCMA) and racketeering laws. Cue outrage from easily outraged... Read more

21 January, 2012 by David Meyer
Perens: Linux could learn from Apple

Perens: Linux could learn from Apple

...as the US Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), and, before it, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), Perens said in his keynote address to the... Read more

18 January, 2012 by Stilgherrian

Google promises to stop pushing piracy searches

...build on its existing tools to allow US rights holders to submit Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) content removal requests more easily. The company also... Read more

3 December, 2010 by Ben Woods

Viacom moves to appeal YouTube copyright decision

...Stanton ruled that YouTube was protected under safe-harbour provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act that place the responsibility for informing a website owner... Read more

12 August, 2010 by Tom Krazit

US says it's OK to jailbreak an iPhone, and take excerpts from DVDs

...fair use”. The Librarian of Congress varied several rules applying to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) in a statement today: Rulemaking on Exemptions from... Read more

26 July, 2010
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18 April, 2012

Jury decides first DMCA conviction

A federal jury has convicted a Florida man of violating the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, in the first jury-trial conviction under the controversial... Read more

24 September, 2003 by Paul Festa

Russians to be tried under DMCA

...break anti-copying technology. US District Judge Ronald Whyte found that the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) does not violate Elcomsoft's due process and... Read more

9 May, 2002 by Evan Hansen

IEEE backs off on copyright law

...longer require authors to attest that their work does not violate the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. The IEEE, publisher of nearly one-third of all... Read more

17 April, 2002 by Lisa M Bowman

Copyright act gags programmers

...the Internet this week for fear of being prosecuted under 1998's Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Along with the threatened lawsuit of Princeton computer-science... Read more

7 September, 2001 by Robert Lemos

Protesters declare war on copyright law

...programmer accused of five counts of copyright infringement, declared war on the Digital Millennium Copyright Act at a fund-raiser for Sklyarov's legal defence... Read more

31 August, 2001 by Robert Lemos

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

...ability to tap into its doors' digital security mechanisms violated the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). The case was widely viewed as an extreme... Read more

17 November, 2003 by John Borland

Activists wring four DMCA concessions

...for more exceptions. As part of a regular process of reviewing the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, regulators created four new instances in which it is... Read more

29 October, 2003 by John Borland

Sklyarov takes the stand in DMCA trial

...trial is the first major test of the criminal provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), which outlaw offering software that can be used... Read more

10 December, 2002 by Lisa M Bowman

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