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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., copyright law, Adobe PDF, domain, project, work

'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, digital content, innovation, season, artist, digital media, conversation, damage, movie

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

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, airline, YouTube, DMCA, Google Inc., training, 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

Nude-photo site wins injunction against Google

February 21, 2006 Judge says Google image search violates copyright of Perfect 10, which sells photos of nude women. Images: Searching for perfection TAGS: image search, injunction, copyright law, Google Inc., women, Judge, photograph, image, Amazon.com Inc.

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, intellectual property, Google Inc., 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, Microsoft Corp., video

Politicos call for music copyright reform

September 13, 2005 They want a "technology neutral" system that would streamline royalty payouts, expand inventories of legal downloading services. TAGS: Rick Boucher, copyright law, congressman, Virginia, law, radio

YouTube sued over copyright infringement

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

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, compliance, entrepreneur, music, owner, Sun Microsystems Inc.

Copyright tussles for Google

August 4, 2006 The search giant, at odds with an increasing number of copyright industries, is taking some provocative legal stances. TAGS: copyright law, dispute, attorney, Google Inc., holder, search engine, photograph, video

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.

Why's it so hard to get 'Buffy' on my iPod?

January 13, 2006 reporter's notebook Buying a new iPod is easy. Filling it with video is far more complicated, Declan McCullagh finds. TAGS: copyright law, Apple video iPod, DMCA, copy protection, Apple iPod, Apple PowerBook, San Francisco, Apple iTunes, Apple Computer, TV, notebook computer, DVD, Apple Macintosh, video, Microsoft Windows

Congress readies broad new digital copyright bill

April 23, 2006 Instead of reforming the controversial DMCA, the U.S. government seems poised to expand it in a sweeping proposal. TAGS: DMCA, intellectual property, copyright law, copy protection, legislation, chairman, professor, Republican

The legal rights to your 'Second Life' avatar

January 5, 2007 Despite a YouTube takedown, Experts claim that journalists' use of a private avatar's image in a news context falls under fair use doctrine. TAGS: Second Life, Ailin Graef, avatar, Guntram Graef, copyright law, YouTube, video service, RFC, virtual worlds, attack, Google Inc., image, video, photograph, e-mail

YouTube's fate rests on decade-old copyright law

March 13, 2007 Wording of DMCA, which appeared in Congress long before the Web video revolution, could determine whether YouTube disappears. TAGS: DMCA, Viacom Inc., YouTube, copyright infringement, fate, copyright law, hosting company, Napster Inc., Google Inc., attorney, video
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