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Kazaa Owner Pins Hopes On 105-year-old Defence
News Sharman License Holdings may be resting its defence on a precedent set over one hundred years ago, according to statements made by its lawyers in court last Friday, as the company prepares to face alleged music copyright infringement charges...
[May 19, 2004, 10:40]
Essential Copyright
Downloads The software walks users through the registration process step by step, providing helpful instructions and examples to assist in application completion.Works that can be copyrighted with Essential Copyright: songs, musical compositions (including...
[March 26, 2005, 3:32]
RIAA Apologises For Penn State Copyright Warning
News The Recording Industry Association of America apologised on Monday to Penn State University for sending an incorrect legal notice of alleged Internet copyright violations. The RIAA confirmed that its policy does not require its Internet copyright...
[May 13, 2003, 8:36]
Canada: Downloading Music Is Legal
News Copyright holder groups such as the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) had already been critical of Canada's copyright laws, in large part because the country has not instituted provisions similar to those found in the US Digital...
[December 15, 2003, 8:50]
Audiogalaxy In RIAA Crosshairs
News The Recording Industry Association of America on Friday filed a copyright lawsuit against Audiogalaxy, adding another front to the industry's legal battles against post-Napster file-swapping services.
[May 27, 2002, 6:43]
Snaps, Crackles And Pops Aim To Stop CD Piracy
News The Audio Home Recording Act, a law passed in 1992, says that copyright holders can't sue people who are making personal home copies of music. But lawyers note that the act does not require copyright holders to make this power available to consumers.
[July 19, 2001, 14:45]
Hopes For Legal Music Podcasts Rise
News For six months now, Ibbott has been talking to the Recording Industry Association of America and individual copyright holders about making this process easier and unambiguously legal. But) podcasters, like the users of any other sound recordings...
[June 17, 2005, 12:30]
P2P Firms Face New Legal Threat
News It demands that peer-to-peer companies do a better job of protecting customers from numerous "known risks" of their products and warns them against developing features that would hinder police from pursuing criminals such as copyright infringers.
[March 16, 2004, 14:05]
RIAA Holds Fire On Webcast Licensing Scheme
News These companies now have the right to transmit video clips and artwork, and some live audio streaming, of any work whose copyright is owned by AIM's members which includes the Ministry of Sound and Beggars Banquet.
[October 9, 2000, 15:11]
Ruling Means Dark Days For P2P Users?
News Friday's ruling that the makers of Grokster and Morpheus aren't liable for copyright infringement occurring as a result of people using their peer-to-peer software could spell bad news for the file traders themselves.
[April 28, 2003, 9:44]
Judges Put End To Napster Appeal
News Still, the Recording Industry Association of America welcomed the news as a "victory for copyright holders. The legal gates started to swing closed in July 2000, when federal Judge Marilyn Hall Patel issued a sweeping preliminary injunction against...
[June 26, 2001, 7:21]
Royalty Fees Threaten Net Radio
News Federal copyright regulators on Thursday set new royalty rates for online radio companies, halving previously proposed fees that had drawn bitter criticism from Net companies. Because "many Webcasters are currently generating very little revenue, a...
[June 21, 2002, 12:46]
Copyright Differences Brew P2P Clash
News European and Canadian copyright protections for sound recordings last just 50 years, compared with 95 years in the United States. A difference between American and European copyright law threatens to carve out a free-swapping zone for popular...
[January 8, 2003, 9:22]
Kazaa Loses Court Battle
News The more realistic claim is that the respondents authorised users to infringe the applicants' copyright in their sound recordings," he said. The record labels alleged millions of copyright infringements were occurring each day on the network.
[September 5, 2005, 15:55]
RIAA Apologises For More Mistaken Warnings
News The music industry's antipiracy efforts took an embarrassing turn on Tuesday when the Recording Industry Association of America acknowledged that it has erroneously sent dozens of copyright infringement notices.
[May 14, 2003, 7:33]
MP4 Gets Cool Welcome, But 'resistance Is Futile...'
News Stonefield plans to appeal to the music industry bigwigs with MP4's ability to securely encode sound files to protect copyright. While Diamond shuns the format, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), which has fought a bitter battle...
[January 19, 1999, 11:28]
EFF Files Free Speech Lawsuit Against Record Labels
News The paper, which discusses weaknesses in some watermarking technology that record companies were considering as protection for their music, was quashed in April after the Secure Digital Music Initiative (SDMI ) and the Recording Industry...
[June 7, 2001, 8:32]
A Year Ago: MP4 Gets Cool Welcome, But 'resistance Is Futile...'
News Stonefield plans to appeal to the music industry bigwigs with MP4's ability to securely encode sound files to protect copyright. While Diamond shuns the format, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), which has fought a bitter battle...
[January 19, 2000, 5:30]
Hacked Rio To Pose Legal Problems?
News Not so, said Bob Kohn, music copyright expert, MP3 supporter, and chairman of Internet music vendor GoodNoise Corp. In doing so, Snowblind has put Diamond on what could be shaky legal ground in its defence against a suit filed by the Recording...
[January 28, 1999, 9:49]
Public Enemy Prefers Zip To MP3
News We wanted to work out a solution that would allow copyrighted material to be distributed but would dramatically reduce copyright theft," Taylor says, adding that he hopes the Zip technology is a step in the right direction.
[June 7, 1999, 9:42]
