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Copyright foes trade verbal blows
News Copyright owners clashed with consumer electronics makers and consumer advocates during a lively debate on Thursday over proposed laws that would give movie and music companies more control over digital copies of their products.
[August 2, 2002, 11:22]
Copyright Act 2002 (U.S.)
Downloads Copyright Act (includes all amendments through 10/27/2000. Copyright Act should first check the most current official version. U.S. Contains the full text of 17 U.S.C. Every effort has been made to ensure that this software is accurate and up-to-date.
[October 8, 2009, 17:13]
Copyright law catches IT firms off guard
News The vast majority of UK businesses do not understand new copyright obligations covering Web sites, intranets and even photocopies, according to a survey commissioned by intellectual property law firm Bristows.
[November 12, 2003, 16:25]
Copyright reform lends itself to libraries
Leader The stuff that is out of copyright is no problem. The stuff that's in copyright is causing no end of bother. At first, Google said that it would scan the lot into its database, but only display snippets from the copyright material.
[August 15, 2005, 14:55]
Copyright?
Talkback Looks like everyone forgot what copyright stands for. I should promote the progress and learning, and copyright is synthetic right given by the society to the authors to encourage them to give back their works to the society.
[August 27, 2009, 10:08]
Copyright activists let off steam in London
Talkback The GPL is enforced by strict copyright. Is that evil?
[October 17, 2005, 16:38]
Copyright, copy wrong?
Talkback Is it wrong to put a copyright video in DVD fomat.
[July 17, 2006, 19:24]
Copyright bill slurs are lies, say US senators
News Supporters of a proposed US law that would permit copyright holders to assail peer-to-peer networks angrily defended it last week, saying it had been unfairly characterised by opponents. According to the P2P Piracy Prevention Act, copyright holders...
[September 30, 2002, 9:04]
Copyright battle seeks early resolution
News Both sides want to end the copyright infringement lawsuit against popular file-swapping services Kazaa, Morpheus and Grokster quickly -- they just disagree on who should win. The groups submitted sealed arguments they said stemmed from six months...
[September 10, 2002, 11:04]
Copyright activists let off steam in London
News A group of copyright activists took over Speakers' Corner in London's Hyde Park on Sunday to expound the evils associated with strict copyright law and point out some potential solutions. An informal group of copyright activists meet on a regular...
[October 17, 2005, 14:00]
Copyright truce excludes key voices
News The key detail about a digital-copyright agreement announced in Washington DC on Tuesday was who was not in the room at the time. Both lobbied for the controversial Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) in the late 1990s and neither wants to...
[January 15, 2003, 15:45]
Copyright issues have gotten out of control
Talkback The whole idea of copyright to not to deprive a creator of rightful financial gain in the sale of their products. The world has changed and the copyright laws need to change as well to allow for innovation and still provide for the right of an...
[December 29, 2008, 14:10]
Copyright owners profit from infringing YouTube clips
News Instead of just pulling down copyright-infringing clips, copyright owners are choosing to use YouTube's filters to generate advertising revenue, Google said on Wednesday. Late last year, Google introduced a copyright-identification system — Video...
[August 28, 2008, 11:59]
Copyright differences brew P2P clash
News A difference between American and European copyright law threatens to carve out a free-swapping zone for popular decades-old music, hampering record companies' antipiracy efforts online. European and Canadian copyright protections for sound...
[January 8, 2003, 9:22]
Copyright: It's not just a game
News With congressional investigations and billion-dollar lawsuits, modern copyright policing isn't exactly child's play. Players are scored based on how well they guard their privacy while obtaining the music they want without violating or giving up...
[June 21, 2002, 9:58]
Copyright bill may severely limit rights
News The Copyright Office recommended that Congress amend the Copyright Act," the two politicians wrote in a five-page letter sent last month to members of the subcommittee that oversees intellectual property.
[July 12, 2002, 8:02]
FAST finds seriously low understanding of copyright among directors
News The first phase of the FAST Corporate Awareness Campaign found that less than five per cent of directors were confident that the proper software management processes were in place in their companies and 60 per cent didn't realise they might be...
[November 19, 1996, 12:20]
Code is copyright, but ideas aren't
Talkback Code you write is subject to copyright, even when not in physical form, and I'm not sure whether the case you're referring to is still valid case law — do you have the case name? Certainly source code is copyright, and no-one can use that without...
[August 17, 2009, 9:39]
News Burst: EU accused of music copyright bias
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 28, 1999, 12:50]
CD copyright protection system on the way
News The two companies will pool their technologies and patents for music CD and DVD Audio copyright protection. US companies Macrovision and TTR Technologies have announced a partnership to develop a copy protection system to prevent the copying of...
[December 13, 1999, 11:49]
