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Protesters declare war on copyright law
News Supporters backing Dmitry Sklyarov, the Russian programmer accused of five counts of copyright infringement, declared war on the Digital Millennium Copyright Act at a fund-raiser for Sklyarov's legal defence on Wednesday.
[August 31, 2001, 10:08]
US exports DMCA in trade treaty
News Congress is being asked to approve a trade agreement with Chile that would export a controversial US law: the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. One chapter of the complex agreement closely mirrors the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA...
[July 16, 2003, 14:12]
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]
Arrest fuels Adobe copyright fight
News The bureau said such activity was a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Only the second case to be filed under the criminal provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, the strongest law to date supporting publishers of...
[July 19, 2001, 10:13]
E-voting company faces congressional inquiry
News Those takedown notices, issued under a provision of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), earned Diebold a lawsuit by an ISP with a client who linked to the documents and by two Swarthmore students whose school -- acting as their ISP -- had...
[December 2, 2003, 11:10]
Net Politics Focus: House of Reps. passes copyright legislation
News The Digital Millennium Copyright Act defines for the first time ever the crime of "circumvention," or the deliberate removal of copy-protection mechanisms from software and other digital media. If passed in anything similar to its present form...
[August 6, 1998, 16:50]
Yahoo!, ISPs dig in against labels
News The Digital Millennium Copyright Act In July, the RIAA invoked the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) to force Verizon to turn over the identity of a Kazaa subscriber. No tools are more critical in combating this digital piracy than the...
[September 11, 2002, 8:30]
Government body says developing countries need open source
News The WIPO Copyright Treaty, while being less restrictive than laws such as the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act and the EU's Copyright Directive, which is due to be enforced in the national laws of member states next year, still "contains...
[September 13, 2002, 10:19]
Hollywood's war on open source
News This time the industry is armed with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), a law passed in 1998 that gives copyright owners unprecedented control over products such as DVDs or CDs. According to the judicial reading of the Digital Millennium...
[February 28, 2000, 9:05]
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]
An interesting sales tactic
Blog As a committed, engaged and interested member of the digital community, you'll know all about the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), one of the more exquisitely foolish bits of madness ever to issue from our American cousins.
[May 11, 2007, 9:43]
Copyright act gags programmers
News Two well-known computer security experts pulled down their works from the Internet this week for fear of being prosecuted under 1998's Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Now the only text on the site, "Censored by the Digital Millennium Copyright...
[September 7, 2001, 9:04]
Jury decides first DMCA conviction
News A federal jury has convicted a Florida man of violating the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, in the first jury-trial conviction under the controversial law, according to a US attorney's office. He then sold reprogrammed DirecTV access cards...
[September 24, 2003, 16:40]
US Congress asked to unpick copy lock laws
News The bill, introduced by representatives Rick Boucher, a Virginia Democrat, and John Doolittle, a California Republican, would repeal key sections of the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Formally titled the Digital Media Consumers...
[October 4, 2002, 7:51]
Google dismisses Viacom copyright claims
News YouTube, which Google acquired last year for $1.65bn in stock, is protected from charges of copyright violation under the Hosting Safe Harbor of the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Kwun said. We already have in place a digital hash blocking...
[May 1, 2007, 9:51]
IEEE backs off on copyright law
News The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) said it will no longer require authors to attest that their work does not violate the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. A major publisher of scientific research is reversing a policy...
[April 17, 2002, 9:07]
Cult forces Google to remove critical links
News The Church of Scientology asked Google to remove the links under a controversial US law called the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Section 512 (c) (3) of the Act that Google refers to deals with removing links to material that may infringe...
[March 21, 2002, 14:36]
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]
Russians to be tried under DMCA
News US District Judge Ronald Whyte found that the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) does not violate Elcomsoft's due process and free speech rights. Congress was concerned with promoting electronic commerce while protecting the rights of...
[May 9, 2002, 14:02]
Lexmark invokes DMCA in toner suit
News Printer maker Lexmark has found an unusual weapon to thwart rivals from selling replacement toner cartridges: the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. This lawsuit is the latest of several recent DMCA cases -- both civil and criminal -- that have...
[January 9, 2003, 8:51]
