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Sharman Witness: Tech Can Protect Copyright
News Justice Wilcox said the peer to peer "dilemma" was how not to impinge on people sharing non-copyright material and at the same time reduce, if not eliminate, the amount of sharing of infringing material.
[December 13, 2004, 11:30]
ISPs Stand Firm After P2P Ruling
News Last week a Belgian court ruled that the ISP Scarlet — formerly Tiscali — had the technology available to it to block or filter copyright-infringing material being sent over its network via peer-to-peer (P2P) traffic, and had six months to start...
[July 11, 2007, 12:13]
RIAA Apologises For More Mistaken Warnings
News Sent during Penn State's final exams, it prompted the central computing office at the campus to threaten the department with having its Internet connection severed unless the infringing material was removed.
[May 14, 2003, 7:33]
Site Taken Offline After Microsoft Complaint
News The Neowin shutdown is unusual, however, since such complaints typically result in the removal of specific infringing material, rather than entire sites. In an uncommonly harsh application of a widely used Internet enforcement tool, a Windows news...
[March 10, 2003, 10:28]
MP3 Site 'just A Search Engine'
News However, he conceded that providing unauthorised copies of copyrighted material was breaking the law, and if copyright-infringing material is brought to its attention, the ISP should remove the site. The Internet company targeted by the music...
[October 23, 2003, 13:10]
RIAA Apologises For Penn State Copyright Warning
News The RIAA's notice went to the university's central computing office, which told the department to delete the material or "we will need to disable access to the machine hosting the infringing song". The letter demanded that the department "remove...
[May 13, 2003, 8:36]
Google Dismisses Viacom Copyright Claims
News Viacom denied on Monday that YouTube qualifies for protection under the DMCA, arguing that the company has prior knowledge of infringing material and is also profiting from unlicensed works. It is obvious that YouTube has knowledge of infringing...
[May 1, 2007, 9:51]
Copyright Owners Profit From Infringing YouTube Clips
News Commenting on the moral dilemma that copyright owners face when profiting from copyright-infringing videos, Fred von Lohmann at the Electronic Frontier Foundation said: "The second [that big media companies] say 'yes' to profiting from those clips...
[August 28, 2008, 11:59]
Filtering Kazaa 'impossible' - Sharman
News Sharman Networks has rejected claims from the music industry that it can identify the difference between copyright-infringing and legitimate file-sharing on its network, which is a crucial step towards the company gaining the capacity to block...
[February 9, 2004, 7:35]
Google To Screen YouTube Videos For Copyright
News YouTube will launch a system in September designed to prevent copyright-infringing material from going up on the site, a Google lawyer said in court on Friday. Beck added that the screening process would take only a few minutes to determine whether...
[July 30, 2007, 15:44]
News Roundup: Napster Facing The Music
News However, the decision is seen as something of a victory for Napster, as the record industry has been told to assist -- by identifying the infringing files. A court ruling on Tuesday forces Napster to remove all copyright-protected material from its...
[March 6, 2001, 15:02]
UK P2P User? Hope You Like US Prison Food
Blog Importing and exporting infringing material will attract harsh penalties, and there's a $30,000 per-track fine on music (so that's half a million dollars for an album), The list goes on, and I thoroughly recommend you go out and Google to educate...
[June 11, 2008, 13:19]
Microsoft Clashes With Gadget Blog Site
News If you do not act expeditiously to remove access to the infringing material, you may otherwise be liable for trademark infringement, trade secret misappropriation, and/or other remedies at law, including civil and criminal penalties.
[January 26, 2005, 16:05]
Software Pirates Face Ten Years In Jail
News The current maximum penalty for the "wilful making for sale or dealing in infringing copies of copyright material" -- such as software, videos and music -- is two years. The consumer minister, Melanie Johnson, said that the government was committed...
[April 15, 2002, 16:31]
Site At Centre Of Aussie Court Battle Switched Off
News At the heart of the matter is the question of whether linking to copyright infringing material from a Web page is itself an infringing act. The Web site at the heart of a legal battle between several music industry behemoths and Australian Internet...
[October 27, 2003, 8:25]
Kazaa Exec Declares Child Porn Unstoppable
News Philip Morle, Sharman Networks' chief technology officer, told the Federal Court in Sydney yesterday, during the trial of the peer-to-peer software provider over alleged copyright-infringing behaviour, he did not believe Sharman could actually...
[December 10, 2004, 7:50]
Most Internet Abuse Dismissals Related To Porn
News The problem with inappropriate material in the workplace is so deep-rooted that companies need to have a combination of automated software filtering and a clear company policy that leaves workers in no doubt what is permissible while not...
[July 9, 2002, 16:50]
Australia May Permit 'personal' Music Copying
News Any levy must not catch media used for non-infringing purposes -- such as CDs for digital photos, and DVDs for computer data backup and video recording. The US 'Fair Use' doctrine or Australia's 'Fair dealing' allows for exceptions on when...
[June 25, 2004, 10:20]
Judge Puts File Swappers In Hot Seat
News Andrew Bridges, an attorney with Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati who argued for StreamCast, asked the judge to consider that the file-sharing software used by StreamCast had non-infringing uses -- a possibility that could protect it against the...
[March 5, 2002, 9:50]
Apple Pays Out Over ITunes Patent
News This settlement with Apple marks another important milestone, as we aggressively pursue companies that are infringing upon our intellectual property," said E-Data chairman Bert Brodsky. We have identified additional companies that are infringing...
[August 5, 2004, 9:50]
