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Copyright act gags programmers
News Two well-known computer security experts pulled down their works from the Internet this week for fear of being prosecuted under 1998's Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Now the only text on the site, "Censored by the Digital Millennium Copyright...
[September 7, 2001, 9:04]
Apple: iPhone jailbreaking violates our copyright
News Apple recently told the US Copyright Office that it believes iPhone jailbreaking is a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and infringes on its copyright, according to the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
[February 16, 2009, 14:16]
An interesting sales tactic
Blog As a committed, engaged and interested member of the digital community, you'll know all about the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), one of the more exquisitely foolish bits of madness ever to issue from our American cousins.
[May 11, 2007, 9:43]
UK launches 'Euro-DMCA' debate
News The UK looks set to get its own version of the controversial Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), following the publication of proposals to implement the EU Copyright Directive into UK Law. The government plans to amend the rules contained in...
[August 12, 2002, 11:29]
Apple threatens DVD burners with DMCA
News Apple Computer has invoked the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to prevent its customers from burning DVDs on external drives. Earlier this month, the company's lawyers sent a stiff warning to an Apple dealer, warning that a patch to Apple's iDVD...
[August 29, 2002, 8:10]
Digital copyright law on trial
News A security researcher asked a federal judge on Wednesday to let a challenge to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) continue. The ACLU wants a court to declare that Edelman's research is not barred by the DMCA, by N2H2's shrinkwrap license...
[October 31, 2002, 8:30]
US Congress asked to unpick copy lock laws
News Formally titled the Digital Media Consumers' Rights Act, the new bill represents the boldest counterattack yet on recent expansions of copyright law that have been driven by entertainment industry firms worried about Internet piracy.
[October 4, 2002, 7:51]
Protesters declare war on copyright law
News Supporters backing Dmitry Sklyarov, the Russian 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 on Wednesday.
[August 31, 2001, 10:08]
US lawmakers reject changes to digital copyright law
News The US Copyright Office has rejected proposals that would expand the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) to permit the digital transmission of lawfully purchased copies of work. In a report made public last week, the Copyright Office says that...
[September 10, 2001, 15:45]
US exports DMCA in trade treaty
News Congress is being asked to approve a trade agreement with Chile that would export a controversial US law: the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. One chapter of the complex agreement closely mirrors the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA...
[July 16, 2003, 14:12]
HP threatens researchers with DMCA
News Hewlett Packard has found a new club to use to pound researchers who unearth flaws in the company's software: the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Until now, it's been used by copyright holders to pursue people who distribute computer programs...
[July 31, 2002, 12:15]
Techies wage war on copyright cartels
News Cyberrights advocates, open-source evangelists and even librarians met at Stanford Law School on Thursday in an attempt to limit the effectiveness of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 -- a piece of legislation that gives music producers...
[May 19, 2000, 15:06]
US Congress readies 'super-DMCA'
News For the last few years, a coalition of technology companies, academics and computer programmers has been trying to persuade Congress to scale back the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Boosts criminal penalties for copyright infringement originally...
[April 25, 2006, 15:20]
Banks face prosecution over Indian call centre leak
Talkback The proposed change in the Information Technology Act, 2000 for conferring data protection or its separate enactment is not only unwarranted but is equally based on misinterpretation of the provisions of the Indian Copyright Act, 1957 and the...
[June 23, 2005, 17:03]
Publishers lay into Google Print
News Despite initial awe for Google's project to digitise and make library books searchable online, some publishers are now criticizing the plan, calling it a "broad-sweeping violation of the [American] Copyright Act.
[May 25, 2005, 9:40]
Civil liberties group takes on DMCA
News The suit asks a federal judge to rule that the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is so sweeping that it unconstitutionally interferes with researchers' ability to evaluate the effectiveness of Internet filtering software.
[July 25, 2002, 14:58]
US firm puts pressure on overseas ISPs
News MediaForce, a US digital copyright solutions company claiming to act on behalf of Warner Bros, has reportedly sent a letter to at least one Australian ISP listing a series of IP addresses it claims have been used to illegally access copyrighted...
[January 14, 2003, 10:18]
Film-swappers face three years' jail
News An aide to Cornyn said it is designed to expand the 1997 No Electronic Theft Act, which already makes many forms of copyright infringement a federal felony. A forthcoming copyright bill backed by key US senators would place file swappers in prison...
[November 13, 2003, 7:55]
Justice Dept cools on suing swappers
News Pate said the Justice Department's formal position on the Pirate Act and other copyright legislation would appear in a task force's report that will be presented to Attorney General John Ashcroft this autumn.
[August 24, 2004, 11:45]
US finally fights for digital consumer rights
News The bill would also amend the divisive Digital Millennium Copyright Act so that consumers could bypass technical protections on copyrighted material if they plan to use the work legally. A long-promised bill has finally been introduced into the US...
[October 3, 2002, 9:12]
