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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 lawmakers reject changes to digital copyright law
News The Copyright Office decided against any legislative change to the US digital copyright law, and concluded that "the transmission of a work from one person to another over the Internet results in a reproduction on the recipient's computer, even if...
[September 10, 2001, 15:45]
British Library calls for digital copyright action
Talkback Per example, one can't patent or copyright a language and one can't patent a book but one can copyright a book. Thus leaving enough room for someone else to patent an improved physical system of printing (= innovation) and allowing everyone to...
[September 27, 2006, 23:52]
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]
Compromise copyright bill in works
News Stanford University law professor Larry Lessig outlined a plan for so-called compulsory licences for copyrighted works, a strategy that would require movie and music companies to allow other people to use digital works but require payment to...
[February 20, 2003, 10:18]
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]
US Copyright Office wakes up to flaws in anti-hacking law
News The portion of copyright law coming under the public microscope is the so-called anti-circumvention clause of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which bars people from circumventing "technological measures that effectively control access to a...
[October 14, 2002, 10:13]
British Library calls for digital copyright action
News The British Library has called for a "serious updating" of current copyright law to "unambiguously" include digital content, and take technological advances into account. In a manifesto launched on Monday at the Labour Party Conference in...
[September 25, 2006, 13:50]
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. But measures such as that providing protection from...
[August 12, 2002, 11:29]
Judge sides with Hollywood in RealDVD ruling
News A federal court has found enough evidence to decide that RealDVD, the software that enables users to copy DVDs and store digital duplicates on a hard drive, violates US copyright law. The decision represents a major victory for the film studios...
[August 12, 2009, 8:38]
Protesters declare war on copyright law
News This is a war being waged by copyright interests who see each opportunity on the Internet as an opportunity to change the meaning of copyright law," said Lawrence Lessig, director of Stanford University's Center for Internet and Society and author...
[August 31, 2001, 10:08]
DMCA case verdict: Not guilty
News The case against ElcomSoft is considered a crucial test of the criminal provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), a controversial law designed to extend copyright protections into the digital age.
[December 18, 2002, 8:08]
DMCA 'doesn't apply' to garage-door opener case
News The case was widely viewed as an extreme example of the application of digital copyright law and was held up by critics of the DMCA as a reason the law should be scaled back. An Illinois federal court has dismissed a garage door opener manufacturer...
[November 17, 2003, 15:30]
Lib Dems to oppose Mandelson copyright powers
News The Liberal Democrats are to oppose a clause in the Digital Economy Bill that would let the business secretary amend copyright law without parliamentary debate. We just don't think that the government should have the power to fiddle around with...
[December 8, 2009, 14:50]
Copyright law catches IT firms off guard
News The UK adopted what many consider to be Europe's toughest digital copyright law, with the stated aim of protecting a media industry that exports many of its works to overseas audiences. The vast majority of UK businesses do not understand new...
[November 12, 2003, 16:25]
University to challenge copyright laws
News James Boyle, a Duke law professor and co-director of the school's Center for the Study of the Public Domain, says that the centre is likely to look sceptically at recent laws like the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and a measure that...
[September 5, 2002, 10:31]
Experts: Copyright law hurts technology
News We need to build a layer of reasonable copyright law on top of this background of unreasonable extremism. He and other experts taking part in the two-day policy debate, even those sympathetic to the plight of copyright holders, could cite several...
[March 3, 2003, 8:20]
Norway piracy case brings activists hope
News The EFF and others have been concerned that digital copyright law hampers legitimate research into encryption and other technological matters and stifles consumers' rights. In the ElcomSoft case, a jury ruled in December that the company did not...
[January 9, 2003, 9:02]
Napster case makes strange bedfellows
News But Sony's also a member of the Consumer Electronics Association, which along with the Digital Future Coalition, filed a brief saying Patel's ruling could expand copyright law in unprecedented ways to the detriment of new technologies.
[September 14, 2000, 15:09]
Napster hit with lawsuit from rock group Metallica
News San Mateo, California-based Napster already is the target of a suit by the Recording Industry Association of America, which claims that Napster violates the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, a new law that bars devices that could be used to...
[April 14, 2000, 8:27]
