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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 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 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 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 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 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
Talkback The GPL is enforced by strict copyright. Is that evil?
[October 17, 2005, 16:38]
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 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, copy wrong?
Talkback Is it wrong to put a copyright video in DVD fomat.
[July 17, 2006, 19:24]
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 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 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]
US Copyright Office wakes up to flaws in anti-hacking law
News Federal copyright regulators are opening the door for new exceptions to a controversial copyright law that has landed one publisher in court and a Russian programmer in jail. The United States Copyright Office is launching a rare round of public...
[October 14, 2002, 10:13]
Copyright reform lends itself to libraries
Talkback By copying copyrighted works beyond the limits of "fair use" (and this does not clearly apply to what google has done: google is not e.g.writing a review or criticism), google has already broken copyright law.
[August 16, 2005, 14:10]
Supreme Court nixes copyright challenge
News In a narrow sense, the outcome of this challenge to the Copyright Term Extension Act (CTEA) determines when some works will become part of the public domain. Another target is the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), also enacted in 1998, which...
[January 16, 2003, 9:09]
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]
Google accused in copyright case
News A Google representative provided this statement in response to a request for comment on the allegations: "We prohibit advertisers from using our advertising program to promote the sale of copyright infringing materials.
[February 13, 2007, 8:43]
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...
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