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Copyright And Censorship: Past As Prologue?
White Papers Copyright and free expression principles are, in the mainstream view, in harmony because copyright protection is only available to the "expression" of authors, and not to the "ideas" or information the authors works may contain.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
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 And The Perfect Curve
White Papers Everyone agrees that the purpose of the copyright system is to promote progress. At the same time, though, skepticism about the law’s ability to define the substance of progress runs deep within copyright case law and theory.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
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 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 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]
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 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 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: 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 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 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 And Distance Education
White Papers The Copyright Law of 1976 established the rights of the copyright holder as well as providing for the use of copyrighted materials, especially in educational settings. In order to comply with the law in the area of copyright and proper use of...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
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]
Compromise Copyright Bill In Works
News Opponents of Hollywood's drive to strengthen copyright law are mounting a new strategy: Require anything that has antipiracy technology built in to be clearly labelled and let consumers decide at the cash register.
[February 20, 2003, 10:18]
The Virtual What?... The Virtual World And Its Copyright Implications
White Papers How will the copyright law respond to the digital age? And if section 108 of the Copyright Act permits libraries to reproduce and distribute a copy or phono record of a work under certain conditions, can libraries "reproduce and distribute" a...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Dmitry Employer On Copyright Crusade
News Katalov has spent many months away from his family since last July, when his company found itself on the wrong side of the law as a defendant in the first major test case of the criminal provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).
[April 30, 2002, 9:47]
Novell Defeats SCO In Unix Copyright Case
News The court's ruling has cut out the core of SCO's case and, as a result, eliminates SCO's threat to the Linux community based upon allegations of copyright infringement of Unix," Joe LaSala, Novell's senior vice president and general counsel, told...
[August 13, 2007, 8:36]
New Twist In Net Copyright Struggle
News If it performs as promised, the new technology could be what copyright holders desire above all in this new world order: increased control over distribution. Watching the explosion in the number of people using Napster and its variants to download...
[July 17, 2000, 9:16]
