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'Tis the season for common sense copyright

December 13, 2007 Maura Corbett says it's time for partisans in this long-running soap opera to reach a compromise agreement. TAGS: copyright law, economy, season, innovation, digital content, conversation, artist, digital media, damage, movie

British Library calls for digital copyright action

September 25, 2006 U.K.'s national library says copyright law must be updated to curb the excesses of digital rights management. TAGS: copyright law, digital content, digital-rights management, restriction, exception, library, law, U.K., CEO

Google: These books are free

August 30, 2006 Search giant makes PDFs of entire public-domain works available for download and print. TAGS: Google Book Search, Google Inc., Adobe PDF, copyright law, domain, project, work

Court nixes lawsuit fighting copyright law

November 24, 2004 Internet Archive founder's suit against copyright terms is dismissed by federal judge. TAGS: Brewster Kahle, copyright law, court, federal judge, copyright protection, lawsuit, decision, work

YouTube sued over copyright infringement

July 19, 2006 Journalist claims video-download site encourages its users to violate copyright law. TAGS: YouTube, copyright law, DMCA, Los Angeles, video

Authors Guild sues Google over library project

September 20, 2005 Group calls the search king's scanning and digitizing of library books "massive" copyright infringement. TAGS: Google Book Search, copyright law, lawsuit, Google Inc., author, response, U.S.

Adult site sues Amazon over sexy images

July 1, 2005 Perfect 10 lawsuit claims Amazon.com's A9 search site shows thousands of photos without permission. TAGS: Amazon A9, Amazon.com Inc., lawsuit, video search, copyright law, Google Inc., image, search engine, video

Separating fact from fiction on digital copyrights

August 27, 2007 Qorvis' Maura Corbett says copyright law wasn't intended to serve as a stick for rights holders to wield against the freedom of information. TAGS: copyright law, warning, age, DVD

Backers of stronger copyright laws form lobby group

May 17, 2007 Copyright Alliance draws applause from Hollywood Democrat Howard Berman, who heads a key House panel that writes intellectual property laws. TAGS: copyright law, alliance, copyright protection, intellectual property, Rep., Washington, event

Cablevision to fight ruling blocking networked DVR

April 10, 2007 Argues its new service letting subscribers remotely store movies and shows is no different copyright-wise than other DVR products. TAGS: Cablevision Systems Corp., DVR, copyright law, cable company, set-top, set-top box, Time Warner Inc., programming, movies, TV, server

Microsoft chastises Google on copyrights

March 6, 2007 Redmond joins the hue and cry of critics who charge the search giant with usurping other people's content. TAGS: copyright law, Google Inc., intellectual property, YouTube, RIAA, Microsoft Corp., video

An end run round copyright laws?

August 15, 2006 Legal activist Lawrence Lessig urges LinuxWorld attendees to use Creative Commons as route to "free culture." TAGS: copyright law, culture, lawyer, wireless network, law, Linux, networking, operating system, video, Microsoft Corp.

France may sanction unfettered P2P downloads

December 22, 2005 Parliament gave initial approval to the concept, but roadblocks remain, and the entertainment industry is on edge. TAGS: amendment, copyright law, sanction, approval, France, proposal, nation, organization, P2P, copy, music

If Elvis were a digital entrepreneur today

January 24, 2008 Internet attorney Nancy Prager explains how an EU push to create a common digital copyright policy may serve as the de facto legal framework for the Internet. TAGS: European Union, copyright law, barrier, entrepreneur, compliance, Sun Microsystems Inc., owner, music

Publishers sue Google over book search project

October 19, 2005 Association of American Publishers accuses Google of "freeloading on the talent and property of authors and publishers." TAGS: Google Book Search, publisher, Google Inc., author, copyright law, talent, project

Comcast, BitTorrent bury the hatchet

March 28, 2008 After months of sparring, the companies say they've found common ground--and maybe even a way to make both ISPs and file sharers happy. TAGS: BitTorrent, Comcast Corp., Declan McCullagh, blog, copyright law, Internet Service Provider, file-sharing, P2P, broadband

Free speech under Net attack, study says

December 5, 2005 In today's "remix culture," free-expression group says that copyright law is squelching rights. TAGS: copyright law, Star Wars, owner, study, notice, law, letter, attack, Internet Service Provider

Visa halts its service for allofmp3.com

October 18, 2006 Beleaguered music download site says it will stop discounting songs and give them away, says newspaper report. TAGS: Visa International, music download, Russia, copyright law, Napster Inc., Kazaa, U.S.

Bill Gates and other communists

February 15, 2005 Free Software Foundation president Richard Stallman says Microsoft's chairman is blurring the discussion about software patents. TAGS: software patent, Bill Gates, patent, protocol, GNU/Linux, Mr., copyright law, GPL, intellectual property, law, Microsoft Corp., idea

American Airlines subpoenas Google, YouTube

March 10, 2006 Airline draws on digital copyright law to force companies to identify person who posted training video on their Web sites. TAGS: subpoena, copyright law, YouTube, airline, DMCA, Google Inc., training, video
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