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US Copyright Office Sides Against Lexmark In DMCA Case
News The US Copyright Office has sided with Static Control Components in a high-profile lawsuit over whether the company may sell chips that permit Lexmark International toner cartridges to be refilled. As part of a 198-page opinion released late...
[October 30, 2003, 8:40]
US Copyright Office Wakes Up To Flaws In Anti-hacking Law
News The United States Copyright Office is launching a rare round of public comment on rules that bar people from breaking through digital copy-protection technology on works such as music, movies, software or electronic books.
[October 14, 2002, 10:13]
US Report: New Law Gives ISPs Copyright Breach Protection
News First, ISPs have to register in writing with the US Copyright Office in order to receive liability protection; second, the Copyright Office didn't tell ISPs about the new law until this morning. Register the agent's name and contact information...
[November 5, 1998, 10:11]
US Anti-piracy Law Gathers Strength
News In a move that's alarming technology firms, the US Copyright Office is about to endorse new legislation that would outlaw peer-to-peer networks and possibly some consumer electronics devices that could be used for copyright piracy.
[July 22, 2004, 8:20]
File-swapping Legal Fight Gathers Steam
News The US Copyright Office has drafted a new version of the Induce Act that it believes will ban networks such as Kazaa and Morpheus while not putting hardware such as portable hard drives and MP3 players on the wrong side of the law.
[September 3, 2004, 9:35]
US Lawmakers Reject Changes To Digital Copyright Law
News The US Copyright Office has rejected proposals that would expand the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) to permit the digital transmission of lawfully purchased copies of work. The Copyright Office decided against any legislative change to the...
[September 10, 2001, 15:45]
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]
Creative Commons Comes To Microsoft Office
News Microsoft and the Creative Commons on Wednesday plan to release a free tool that will let people attach a Creative Commons copyright licence to Microsoft Office documents. Microsoft contracted with 3Sharp, a consultant, to build and test the...
[June 21, 2006, 10:00]
Music Industry Casts New Net For Streaming Royalties
News In addition, SoundExchange could tap a new source of revenue if it gets a favourable ruling from the US Copyright Office regarding radio stations that stream music on the Internet. The US Copyright Office, part of the Library of Congress, is...
[November 29, 2000, 10:32]
P2P Firms Face New Legal Threat
News It demands that peer-to-peer companies do a better job of protecting customers from numerous "known risks" of their products and warns them against developing features that would hinder police from pursuing criminals such as copyright infringers.
[March 16, 2004, 14:05]
Patent Campaigners Make Government Breakthrough
Talkback Programmers who rip off other peoples work are breaking copyright, contract and trade secret laws already. Software is mathametics and protected more than adequately by copyright, trade secrets and contract law.
[December 15, 2004, 11:32]
Kazaa's Owner Breaks Silence
News With respect to intellectual property and copyright protection, Hemming said she was not aware of any attempt made by the Australian Record Industry Association to contact Sharman Networks. It hasn't been tested in Australia, but the precedent has...
[April 24, 2002, 10:17]
The Cast Of The Ongoing Peer-to-peer Drama
News US government: The Solicitor General's office joined the copyright holders on the floor of the Supreme Court, arguing that intellectual-property protection was critical to the US economy. Copyright companies are pitted against technology...
[June 28, 2005, 18:10]
Public Get A Say On DMCA
News On Tuesday, the US Copyright Office began accepting comments from the public on the law's "anticircumvention" section, which limits people's ability to bypass copy-protection mechanisms. When enacting the DMCA in 1998, Congress ordered the...
[November 20, 2002, 16:03]
Techies Wage War On Copyright Cartels
News Representatives of several groups with an interest in strengthening users' abilities to use copyrights descended on Stanford to present comments to advisers from the US Copyright Office, which is part of the Library of Congress -- the body...
[May 19, 2000, 15:06]
'Operation Buccaneer' Nabs Suspected Pirate Ringleader
News A federal grand jury in Connecticut charged Hew Raymond Griffiths of Bateau Bay, Australia, with one count of conspiracy to commit criminal copyright infringement and one count of copyright infringement related to his alleged role in leading the...
[March 13, 2003, 8:27]
Digital Rights Case Could Set Crucial Precedent
News Librarians and the US Copyright Office have filed briefs siding with freelancers. On the other side are the publishers, who argue that they are simply distributing revisions of work they've already paid for -- a practice that's legal under...
[March 28, 2001, 9:03]
Worldwide Anti-piracy Sweep Nets Three
News The US Department of Justice said on Tuesday three men pleaded guilty to criminal copyright infringement, as part of what attorneys called the largest multinational Net piracy investigation to date. Pasadena, California, resident Seth Kleinberg...
[March 9, 2005, 9:10]
Software Engineer Sentenced To Prison
News US attorneys said Erickson, who was an engineer at Symantec and a member of DrinkOrDie, provided his company's technology to the group's members so they could remove copyright protections on software and provide counterfeit copies via the Web.
[May 3, 2002, 10:54]
US Fights To Extradite Internet 'pirate'
News Several members of the group -- which specialised in "cracking" software by getting around embedded copyright protections and distributing it via the Internet -- have already been convicted in the US, while others face charges in Britain.
[July 8, 2004, 9:45]
