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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 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, copy wrong?
Talkback Is it wrong to put a copyright video in DVD fomat.
[July 17, 2006, 19:24]
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?
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 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: 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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]
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]
YouTube may face court over copyright complaints
News Our feeling is that companies are going to have to make more of an effort to go above and beyond the (law) to ensure copyright material doesn't end up on their Web sites. Tur, a helicopter pilot and journalist, accused the company in a recent...
[July 24, 2006, 15:50]
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]
Music industry attacks EU copyright proposal
News However, the IFPI complained that "the tools the proposal introduces to bring actions against infringers do not even reach the levels already available under some existing national laws" and may "fall short" of what it called international...
[February 3, 2003, 13:11]
