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Amazon's Kindle ignites legal upheaval
Comment Amazon discovered that a third-party publisher had added the novels to Amazon's library without having secured the necessary licensing rights to sell them. At this time it started to work with major university libraries... [27 Oct 2009]
Monitoring staff email and internet: The dos and don'ts
News Unlike workers in the US, employees in the UK do have an expectation of privacy in the workplace, and if you fail to follow best practice you could find your organisation on the wrong side of the law: under Article 8 of the Convention on... [22 Oct 2009]
BBC iPlayer gets ready to go Worldwide
News It could also carry non-BBC shows that BBC Worldwide already has rights to air on BBC America. It's inevitable that we, the digital media business, need to move to a mix of paid services," he said. BBC... [12 Oct 2009]
Mark Zuckerberg
AS Profile It was forced to back down from a policy where it held perpetual rights to content uploaded by users in February. The company has also attracted $200m of new investment from Digital Sky Technologies and... [08 Oct 2009]
CoSign Digital Signatures and HIPAA
White Paper It's designed to protect patient rights, and simplify the process of passing authorized information from one approved industry entity to another. This paper discusses the three main provisions of this Act and the role... [02 Oct 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: The turntable spins on
Comment The music industry has wasted millions on intellectual property battles and digital rights management, and it looks as though the movie industry is intent on doing the same. Ten years ago a 19-year-old... [24 Sep 2009]
Beyond DRM: What Online Publishers Need to Know
White Paper This white paper examines some of the current approaches to Digital Rights Management (DRM) and the considerations for copyright holders striving to prevent the unauthorized duplication of their works. [12 Sep 2009]
Google Books hit with fresh wave of criticism from Microsoft, Open Book Alliance
News The proposed settlement goes well beyond the legitimate role of a copyright lawsuit -resolving claims for infringement - and imposes a slew of provisions that would restructure the rights and remedies of absent copyright... [09 Sep 2009]
Silverlight 4: Microsoft casts light on next version of Adobe Flash rival
News In particular, Microsoft said the next version of the Adobe Flash rival would support its PlayReady digital rights management technology for offline content. Ahead of a broadcasting conference that... [09 Sep 2009]
Google seeks to appease Europe with digital books copyright deal
News But the US settlement - which has been hailed by civil rights groups as a way to bridge the Digital Divide and hampered by opposition from authors and privacy advocates - will only apply to US users. At... [08 Sep 2009]
Apple's iPhone wins rights to sell readymade ringtones in iTunes
News Apple has obtained the rights to offer readymade ringtones for the iPhone and the company is trying to have them available in time for next Wednesday's music-themed press conference. At the event, Apple is expected to... [03 Sep 2009]
Amazon steps up Google Books criticism with court filing
News The brief goes on to complain that the settlement "is unfair to authors, publishers, and others whose works would be the subject of a compulsory licence for the life of the copyright in favour of Google and the newly created Book... [03 Sep 2009]
Understanding the Jaspersoft Business Intelligence Suite Security Framework
White Paper Security and access rights are two components of the most crucial area of Business Intelligence (BI). It is imperative to enforce strict user privileges against information content, to afford proper reach to the needed... [31 Aug 2009]
'Ditch Windows, free software is the answer'
News Brown points to Amazon.com's recent deletion of e-books from the Kindle as an example of the kinds of action that could become commonplace if the world becomes filled with more digital rights management... [26 Aug 2009]
Yahoo! wins Sony appeal in music streaming case
News Instead, according to Reuters, it merely has to pay licensing fees to digital music rights organisation SoundExchange. Music was not deemed "interactive" enough to require the company to negotiate with... [24 Aug 2009]
