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RSS copyrightSCO latest claim against IBM - copyright
News SCO Group has significantly widened its Unix and Linux lawsuit against IBM, adding a copyright infringement claim to the already complicated case, sources said on Thursday. Copyright infringement is a major new element to SCO's current accusations... [06 Feb 2004]
'Putting a chastity belt on technology': Copyright law and technology
Comment Such sentiments for loosening the control of copyright holders are finding far more fertile ground these days, in the wake of a number of lawsuits that illustrate the dangers of the DMCA. He and other experts taking part in the two-day policy... [03 Mar 2003]
Copyright And Censorship: Past As Prologue?
White Paper Copyright and free expression principles are, in the mainstream view, in harmony because copyright protection is only available to the "expression" of authors, and not to the "ideas" or information the authors works may contain. [24 Feb 2004]
Copyright and the Perfect Curve
White Paper Everyone agrees that the purpose of the copyright system is to promote progress. At the same time, though, skepticism about the law’s ability to define the substance of progress runs deep within copyright case law and theory. [24 Feb 2004]
Copyright nightmare for HP
News A Stuttgart district court decreed HP's technology takes free music from the internet and in doing so breaches artist copyright and should therefore incur a royalty fee. Strict German copyright laws, previously applied to equipment such as video... [28 Jun 2001]
Copyright and Distance Education
White Paper The Copyright Law of 1976 established the rights of the copyright holder as well as providing for the use of copyrighted materials, especially in educational settings. In order to comply with the law in the area of copyright and proper use of... [24 Feb 2004]
CIX offers Web copyright protection service
News DragNet technology trawls the Internet to seek out Web sites that have copied material from a client's site or committed copyright infringements of any kind. Online service provider, Compulink Information eXchange (CIX), is to supply intellectual... [03 Mar 1999]
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]
Google prevails in copyright suit
News In a legal win for Google, a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit filed by a writer who claimed the search giant infringed on his copyright by archiving a Usenet posting of his and providing excerpts from his website in search results. [17 Mar 2006]
Legal Eye: Europe's copyright controversy
Comment Rumblings from the EU about the controversial copyright levy suggest this thorny issue is being taken seriously. If a member state's copyright laws allow for private copying of already-bought material, the Copyright Directive 2001/29 demands that... [18 Jun 2008]
Portal shuts MP3 search over copyright fears
News One of China's biggest internet portals has shut down its MP3 search facility over fears it may be held responsible for copyright violations incurred by file-sharers offering music via the portal. NetEase is also concerned that it could be held... [17 Aug 2005]
Music industry attacks European copyright proposal
News However, the IFPI complained that "the tools the proposal introduces to bring actions against infringers do not even reach the levels already available under some existing national laws" and may "fall short" of what it called international... [03 Feb 2003]
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]
Fast puts the squeeze on directors over copyright
News Fast (Federation Against Software Theft) is putting the squeeze on company directors by bringing criminal charges for copyright violation of software licences within companies. Fast has turned to using section 109 of the Copyright, Designs and... [18 May 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]
