- Wed Jul 21 2004 Federal court broadens DMCA safe harbors
Order in porn case carves out wider copyright protections for Net businesses.
Posted by Paul Festa
- Tue Jul 22 2008 Cuomo strong-arms Comcast over Usenet
New York's attorney general finds a novel way to shake down law-abiding broadband companies: accuse them of harboring child pornography and threaten to prosecute them.
Posted by Declan McCullagh
- Tue Sep 15 2009 Stunned film, music sectors react to Veoh decision
There's no disputing that a federal court's decision to offer safe-harbor protection for sites such as Veoh is a blow to the entertainment industry. But will it bring change?
Posted by Greg Sandoval
- Wed Oct 7 2009 Music publishers: 'Copyright should be technology neutral'
Songwriters, composers and publishers--the groups that want iTunes to pay performance fees on downloads--tell Congress technology shouldn't strip them of their livelihood.
Posted by Greg Sandoval
- Tue Oct 6 2009 Did Viacom find smoking gun in YouTube case?
YouTube's internal e-mails indicate employees and managers knew about copyright content, sources say, but chose to leave the material on the site. What are the DMCA ramifications?
Posted by Greg Sandoval
- Fri Oct 2 2009 Google: Pirate Bay booted off search by mistake
Site is unavailable on Google's search pages for while Friday, but Google says it was just a mistake. The controversial BitTorrent search engine is being indexed again.
Posted by Greg Sandoval
- Sun Jun 23 1996 N.Y. judges asked to follow CDA ruling
Attorneys are asking New York judges to follow the Philadelphia CDA ruling.
Posted by Rose Aguilar
- Wed Dec 9 1998 Microsoft accuses Sun of double standard
An attorney for the software giant charges that Sun Microsystems unfairly tolerated behavior from Netscape that it would not accept from Microsoft.
Posted by Dan Goodin
- Fri Jan 22 1999 Burned eBay Furby buyers get payback
The Pennsylvania attorney general orders a man to reimburse consumers who paid for Furbys, but never received them.
Posted by Kora McNaughton
- Wed Oct 24 2007 Others post, you get sued
Internet attorney Eric J. Sinrod examines whether online service providers are legally responsible for content users create.
Posted by Eric J. Sinrod