A Year Ago: Brits Tick Off RealNetworks
News I'm amazed and concerned that RealNetworks hasn't put any warnings [about copyright] on the marketing material. The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) will fire off a missive to RealNetworks for failing to alert users on copyright issues with its...
[September 9, 1999, 7:00]
British Phonographic Industry Ticks Off RealNetworks
News I'm amazed and concerned that RealNetworks hasn't put any warnings [about copyright] on the marketing material. The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) will fire off a missive to RealNetworks for failing to alert users on copyright issues with its...
[September 9, 1998, 16:20]
Star Wars Lawyers Get Tough - Part II
News The answer lies in the copyright statute's "fair use" clause, which allows for duplication of certain works for home or classroom use. In yet another irony, the same technology that's made it possible for people to quickly and easily download music...
[May 5, 1999, 11:16]
Podcaster
Downloads It supports specific iTunes Music Store tags such as images, copyright notices, categories and links to web sites.Podcaster will also create 'enhanced podcasts', these are audio files which contain chapter markers where you can include titles...
[November 1, 2005, 1:41]
EasyInternetCafe Seeks Global Deal In Music Burning Row
News Much of the burning of copyright material is likely to have involved individuals who downloaded songs from the Internet and then saved them to CD so they could take them home. The case arose when the BPI complained to EasyInternetCafe that its...
[August 19, 2002, 13:34]
Treaty Casts Shadow On Public Domain
News In other words, anyone viewing a Webcast of material that falls outside of copyright -- such as a government-created documentary or a very old movie or audio recording -- may not be able to freely store and redistribute that content.
[November 7, 2003, 14:50]
RIAA Asks Court To Expose Music Pirate
News Verizon says it complies with requests regarding material that customers store on its servers. Until now, the entertainment industry has relied on civil lawsuits aimed at corporations, not individuals, to limit widespread copyright infringement on...
[August 22, 2002, 7:35]
Critics Fight RIAA File-trader Action
News Verizon says it complies with requests regarding material that customers store on its servers. The 30-page brief says the RIAA is relying on a portion of the controversial Digital Millennium Copyright Act that violates Americans' right to be...
[September 2, 2002, 15:01]
MS Palladium: A Must Or A Menace?
News Moreover, lawmakers have introduced controversial bills this year that could strengthen copyright controls over computers and the data they store. Under today's laws, copyright owners maintain control over content even when it resides on someone...
[November 8, 2002, 8:05]
EU Acts On Spam And Copyright
News Digital copyright has become an important issue for the entertainment and technology industries. The SDMI (Secure Digital Music Initiative) has attempted to come up with technologies designed to protect music copyright by allowing only limited...
[February 7, 2001, 7:40]
Public Enemy Prefers Zip To MP3
News We wanted to work out a solution that would allow copyrighted material to be distributed but would dramatically reduce copyright theft," Taylor says, adding that he hopes the Zip technology is a step in the right direction.
[June 7, 1999, 9:42]
Top Ten Things Wrong With Zune
Blog Comment Add to that intuitive album / artist / title browsability and good playlist handling, and possibly even some wireless transfer of files system (copyright material transfer being avoided of course) and I'll be happy.
[November 24, 2006, 9:30]
ISP Caching Tool Muddies Copyright Waters
News In the United States, copyright laws protect ISPs from liability for their users' activities. Just using the word 'caching' doesn't mean that the service is automatically exempt from copyright liability," according to a statement from the IFPI, the...
[July 21, 2003, 13:16]
