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RSS copyrightMP3.com faces massive copyright law suit
News Online music site, MP3.com, is to be sued by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for copyright infringement. MP3.com counters the allegations of copyright infringement, saying that its service only allows users to copy CDs they... [24 Jan 2000]
Real Networks sues Streambox over copyright violation
News Real Networks is suing Streambox for alleged violation of copyright for producing software that allows people to copy Real Networks files into other formats. The Seattle district court ordered Streambox to cease production, development and... [26 Jan 2000]
The Copyright Czar and the White Paper
White Paper At a recent copyright law conference the ghost writer of the Administration's eagerly awaited "white paper" on intellectual property in an electronic environment, said she was starting to use the J-word to describe when it would be released. [14 Aug 2003]
China's long road to copyright
Comment As western companies seek to capitalise on the huge and potentially lucrative Chinese market that is beginning to open up, they are finding concerns about copyright turning into frustrations over counterfeiting and the lack of protection afforded... [19 Sep 2005]
Apple slapped with copyright suit - report
News Rap singer Eminem has accused Apple of copyright infringement in a multimillion-dollar lawsuit, according to a story in The Detroit News. Eminem's music publishers have not given Apple permission to offer the artist's music for download, according... [01 Aug 2007]
Technological Protections for Digital Copyright Objects
White Paper The explosion of the Internet has brought with it serious threats to the survival of organisations that have depended on revenue from copyright objects. A substantial range of risks arise for a copyright-owner wishing to use digital formats even... [01 Mar 2004]
Grokster and Morpheus 'don't violate US copyright'
News Sharman Networks, Australian parent company of the file-sharing software developer Kazaa, is rejoicing at the US court ruling that two similar peer-to-peer programs, Grokster and Morpheus, do not violate copyright law. [23 Aug 2004]
Compaq wins £10m copyright alliance contract
News Compaq has won a £10m contract to supply IT services to an alliance of UK copyright societies. The Mechanical-Copyright Protection Society and the Performing Right Society (MCPS-PRS) represents copyright interests of the composers, songwriters and... [19 Apr 2000]
Public/Private and Copyright Reform in Cyberspace
White Paper A report recently released by the Information Insfrastructure Task Force, a Committee formed by the Clinton administration to articulate and implement its vision for the National Information Infrastructure (NII), recommended several amendments in... [24 Feb 2004]
5 years ago...Clinton signs internet copyright protection act
News 29.10.98: President Clinton yesterday dealt a blow to internet piracy by signing the Digital Millennium Copyright Act into law. The Act aims to protect copyrighted software, music and text on the internet by outlawing the technology used to break... [29 Oct 2003]
Clinton signs Internet copyright protection act
News President Clinton yesterday dealt a blow to Internet piracy by signing the Digital Millennium Copyright Act into law. The Act aims to protect copyrighted software, music and text on the Internet by outlawing the technology used to break copyright... [29 Oct 1998]
A Method for Protecting Copyright on Networks
White Paper This solution to copyright protection uses software envelopes which authenticate each access by communicating with an authorization server on a wide area network. It decrypts the information for display, print, or copying when the authorization is... [24 Feb 2004]
An Overview of International Copyright Development and the Concept of Fair Use
White Paper Like all law, copyright law was a purely national affair, and was developed to regulate internal markets. As a result, some nations chose to recognize copyright as existing from the moment of creation of a work (book, play, poem, picture... [29 Mar 2005]
The Virtual What?... The Virtual World and Its Copyright Implications
White Paper How will the copyright law respond to the digital age? And if section 108 of the Copyright Act permits libraries to reproduce and distribute a copy or phono record of a work under certain conditions, can libraries "reproduce and distribute" a... [24 Feb 2004]
Dealing With Digital Copyright Issues in Higher Education: No Is Not a Helpful Institutional Response
White Paper The policies and processes for copyright clearance of digital materials are, however, poorly defined and cumbersome. As a result, university instructors often have incomplete knowledge of copyright policy and may scan and upload digital materials... [16 Apr 2005]
