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DVD Chipmakers Sued By Hollywood
News The lawsuit is the second to target DVD hardware makers and is part of a new campaign by the trade association to crack down on the spread of disc players that deviate from a Hollywood-approved system of copy control features.
[August 24, 2004, 8:30]
Hollywood's War On Open Source
News He had been accused by the DVD Copy Control Association of the theft of trade secrets for linking to DeCSS, an unlicensed Windows-based DVD player that potentially lets users view and copy DVD movies.
[February 28, 2000, 9:05]
DVD Technology Faces Legal Test
News The DVD Copy Control Association, the group that owns the copy-protection technology contained on DVDs, said a company called Kaleidescape is offering products that illegally make copies of DVDs. The DVD technology group has stepped up its efforts...
[December 8, 2004, 12:40]
DVD Industry's Fallback Plan: Sue!
News On Tuesday, the DVD Copy Control Association Inc.filed suit against 21 individuals and 72 Web sites for posting information and utilities designed to break the copy protection on DVD movies. The case could be a hard one for the industry association...
[December 29, 1999, 11:55]
Stop Wearing Our DVD Code!
News The DVD Copy Control Association (DVD CCA) on Monday added Copyleft to a California lawsuit alleging misappropriation of trade secrets, taking Copyleft founder Steve Blood by surprise. In its lawsuit, the association claims that has already occurred.
[August 2, 2000, 11:02]
Alleged DeCSS Hacker Faces Two Years
News The US DVD Copy Control Association and the Norwegian Motion Picture Association lobbied for the prosecution of Johansen and his father, Per Johansen. But DeCSS can also be used in the piracy of DVDs, and this enraged the movie studios that belong...
[December 10, 2002, 7:57]
Copyright Foes Trade Verbal Blows
News On a visit to the enemy territory of the Silicon Valley, representatives from News Corp.s Fox Entertainment Group and the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), which has sued numerous technology companies, defended their legislative...
[August 2, 2002, 11:22]
University To Challenge Copyright Laws
News Recent debates in Congress have started from the viewpoint of the Recording Industry Association of America and the Motion Picture Association of America, rather than from what's good for consumers, Boyle said.
[September 5, 2002, 10:31]
DVD Copier Faces Another Lawsuit
News The DVD Copy Control Association, a Hollywood-backed technology group, filed a lawsuit against software company 321 Studios on Friday for allegedly infringing patent rights on its DVD copy protection.
[February 16, 2004, 10:40]
US Court: Reverse Engineering Is 'presumptively Legal'
News The plaintiff, the DVD Copy Control Association, had argued that Andrew Bunner violated its intellectual property rights by posting on the Internet code known as DeCSS that can be used to bypass Hollywood's encryption scheme for DVDs.
[March 1, 2004, 10:40]
Small Victory For Studios In DVD-copying Case
News The DVD Copy Control Association's (DVDCCA) suit alleged violations of California's trade secret laws, and a state judge granted an injunction against the defendants. The court said Pavlovich, who organised the "LiVid" Linux video project, "knew...
[January 3, 2003, 8:24]
Arguments Presented In DVD Cracking Case
News Lockyer, who's gearing up to run for governor next year, appeared on the side of the DVD Copy Control Association, which is arguing that the posting of the code on the Net should be banned. The Bunner case has attracted attention from a wide...
[May 30, 2003, 8:05]
Supreme Court Backs Off DVD Case
News The DVD Copy Control Association's (DVDCCA) suit alleged violations of California's trade secret laws, and a state judge granted an injunction against the defendants. See the Digital Rights News Section for the latest on DVD-Ram, DVD-RW, zoning...
[January 6, 2003, 8:06]
Court Blocks DVD-cracking Suit
News Monday's case is one of a handful filed by the DVD Copy Control Association (DVD-CCA) -- a trade group that controls the licences for DVD's antipiracy technology -- against people who posted the DeCSS code online.
[November 26, 2002, 8:19]
Label To Identify Copy-protected CDs
News The IFPI, which is similar to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), is a proponent of copy-protection technology. Copy-protected CDs are becoming more popular overseas, but US labels have been backing off on using the technology in...
[September 19, 2002, 7:55]
Techies Wage War On Copyright Cartels
News Eight major Hollywood studios, the Motion Picture Association of America and the DVD Copy Control Association sued the creators of the program -- known as DeCSS -- and also subpoenaed those who posted or linked to the program and its source code.
[May 19, 2000, 15:06]
Free Speech Victory For DVD Crackers
News In this case, the DVD Copyright Control Association, an industry group aimed at fighting DVD piracy, claimed that Johansen and anyone who posted the code was illegally spreading trade secrets. The Motion Picture Association of America declined...
[November 2, 2001, 10:12]
Free Speech Online Finding Limits
News Unfortunately, I am not one of the optimists on this front," said Allonn Levy, a partner with the HS Law Group and the lead attorney defending a group of Web sites against a California lawsuit brought by the DVD Copy Control Association.
[November 30, 2001, 12:23]
DeCSS Case Runs Into California Roadblock
News The movie industry is represented in the case by a group called DVD Copy Control Association. The motion picture industry's effort to ban computer code that subverts its DVD encryption scheme has suffered a setback in California, with the state's...
[December 18, 2000, 9:11]
DeCSS Banned Again
News A federal judge agreed and sided with the Motion Picture Association of America. In another setback for free speech advocates, hacker magazine 2600 has lost its bid for an appeal of a ruling banning it from posting code that can be used to crack...
[May 20, 2002, 7:31]
