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Musicians lobby EU over copyright vote
News Several musicians are lobbying Euro MEPs in an attempt to stop the free distribution of their material online ahead of a European Parliament ruling Tuesday that could extend copyright protection on the Internet.
[February 13, 2001, 16:35]
Global piracy purge nets 200 PCs
News The Justice Department estimated that the seized copyright material was worth $50m (£28.2m). The US Department of Justice said on Thursday that it had conducted an international sweep of suspected online copyright pirates.
[April 23, 2004, 8:30]
Reports: Mandelson to create file-sharing offence
Blog The proposed alteration to the Copyright Act would create a new offence of downloading material that infringes copyright laws, as well as giving new powers or rights to "protect" rights holders such as record companies and movie studios - and...
[November 19, 2009, 16:01]
Copyright differences brew P2P clash
News Record industry officials say they haven't seen a big surge in Web or file-swapping offerings of material that has fallen out of copyright. A difference between American and European copyright law threatens to carve out a free-swapping zone for...
[January 8, 2003, 9:22]
Copyright reform lends itself to libraries
Leader At first, Google said that it would scan the lot into its database, but only display snippets from the copyright material. The copyright holders objected, so Google said that it would remove material altogether if told to do so - but on a case-by...
[August 15, 2005, 14:55]
ISPs, rights groups react to gov't P2P proposals
News The Department of Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) proposed on Tuesday that disconnection should be considered in the case of those who persistently share copyrighted material online. It smacks of a knee-jerk reaction at a time when copyright...
[August 25, 2009, 15:18]
Star Wars lawyers get tough
News In short, according to Lavery and other attorneys, this means that suing over online copyright violations is tough to do. Lavery added that while it's somewhat simple to discover which Internet service provider network the offending material...
[May 5, 1999, 11:10]
File sharing legal - Canada
News But many studies, including one this week from professors at Harvard and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, have noted that computer users on peer-to-peer networks often download material across national borders.
[April 1, 2004, 8:40]
Piracy battles have ISPs stuck in crossfire
News But, they add, the massive publicity stemming from the site's popularity and the record companies' lawsuit against it has left a lasting legacy: the mainstream public knows copyrighted material is freely available online.
[June 8, 2001, 14:45]
Judge rules DVD-copying program is illegal
News Legal downstream use of the copyrighted material by customers is not a defence to the software manufacturer's violation of the provisions [of copyright law]. Hollywood studios sued to keep DeCSS offline, and a New York federal judge ultimately...
[February 23, 2004, 7:50]
Digital Economy Bill gets tough on file-sharers
News Another provision in the bill is the granting to the business secretary, Lord Mandelson, of the power to amend the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988, "for the purpose of preventing or reducing online copyright infringement".
[November 20, 2009, 9:38]
Star Wars lawyers get tough - Part II
News Online spokesman, who added "Can NBC sell ads for its own content over our material" or material ostensibly linked to WB-owned property that is in fact a porn site? The answer lies in the copyright statute's "fair use" clause, which allows for...
[May 5, 1999, 11:16]
Site taken offline after Microsoft complaint
News Takedown notices have become common under the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which grants ISPs immunity from liability if they promptly remove material upon notice of alleged infringement from a copyright holder.
[March 10, 2003, 10:28]
FBI to hunt Internet pirates
News HR-2517, the Piracy Deterrence and Education Act of 2003, instructs the FBI to develop a programme to deter online trafficking of copyrighted material. A bill introduced in Congress on Thursday would put federal agents in the business of...
[June 23, 2003, 10:45]
AWC - Approach Paper (includes editing)
Downloads The purpose is to show your command of the source material, and that you can write adeptly using varied sentence structure to say a lot in as few sentences as possible. High-tech users naturally have the competitive edge in the workplace; Niles...
[December 19, 2009, 18:43]
AWC - Summary Essay (Reader's)
Downloads It is excellent for supplementing your class notes (reader's summary), is proof to your teacher that you really understand certain material such as a chapter in a textbook (teacher's summary), and is effective in teaching or informing a particular...
[December 19, 2009, 18:45]
AWC - Summary Essay (Specific Audience)
Downloads It is excellent for supplementing your class notes (reader's summary), is proof to your teacher that you really understand certain material such as a chapter in a textbook (teacher's summary), and is effective in teaching or informing a particular...
[December 19, 2009, 18:45]
UK launches 'Euro-DMCA' debate
News Significant changes include new legal protection for digital watermarks, copy protection systems and other technological measures used to protect copyright material online. The UK looks set to get its own version of the controversial Digital...
[August 12, 2002, 11:29]
File-swappers fear prosecution
News A significant element of the RIAA's plan is to persuade large numbers of file traders that putting copyrighted material online is too risky. RIAA officials have said they are already gathering information about people offering large numbers of...
[July 15, 2003, 9:05]
Hyperlinks remain legal after Scientology defeat
News On Friday, the Dutch Court of Appeal in The Hague, Netherlands, denied the Scientologists' latest appeal in an online copyright dispute that dates back to 1995. I got into this because I thought it was important to define how copyright issues are...
[September 9, 2003, 9:05]
