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DIGITAL RIGHTS MANAGEMENT

Copyright is an integral part of the information industry. In this digital world, should publishers defend their publications or be promiscuous with this property? Is copyright dead? Discuss the various publishing sectors dealing with content piracy on the Internet and related debates about the real value of content: piracy as a business model, copyright awareness campaigns, filtering technologies, and the value of traditional publishing brands vs. user-generated content.

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Copyright Office Seeks Help In Fixing The Culture-Stifling Copyright R...more

Last month, I wrote about the damage to the public domain caused by the difficulty of accessing older copyright...

EU Court Of Justice Says Software Functionality Is Not Subject To Copy...more

We've been following the legal fight between SAS and World Programming Limited (WPL) for quite some time.

USTR Releases Ridiculous 'Naughty' Special 301 List For Countries Who ...more

Every year around this time, the USTR puts out its increasingly laughable Special 301 Report, which merely takes the...

Tor Listens To Authors And Readers And Ditches DRMmore

We have said quite a bit about the perils of DRM and how many in the entertainment industry still insist on its use...

Copyright Maximalists Just Won't Quit: Pushing New Monopoly Rights For...more

One thing that is important to understand about IP maximalists and their strategy for continually expanding monopoly...

Canadian Universities Have One Week To Stop A Disastrous Copyright Lic...more

Canada's universities are on the verge of accepting a copyright licensing deal that flies in the face of all reason,...

Is Selling Your Ultraviolet Code Copyright Infringement?more

We have written many times about one of Hollywood's latest attempts at adapting to the modern digital age, Ultraviolet.

Men At Work Musician Found Dead; Ridiculous Copyright Ruling Against B...more

While the iiNet case has been nothing but good news for copyright in Australia over the past few years, at nearly the...

Hollywood Loses Its Big Copyright Lawsuit Against ISP iiNet Down Undermore

Well, here's some good news on the copyright front down under in Australia. You may recall that, back in 2008, a bunch...

Got Questions About Copyfraud? Now's The Time To Ask Them!more

This month's Techdirt book club book is Copyfraud, by Jason Mazzone. If you missed them, we published some excerpts...

Are New Streaming Royalty Rates A Way To Backdoor DRM Into Copyright L...more

We recently wrote about how different parts of the music industry -- the RIAA, NMPA and DMA -- had come to an agreement...

Pirate Parties Continue To Grow In Europe As People Get Sick Of Politi...more

I've expressed my skepticism in the past about the ability of The Pirate Party to make a real dent long-term in...

Facebook Blocking Stories About Richard O'Dwyer's Fight Against Extrad...more

Well, this is unfortunate, though Facebook does have a history of somewhat arbitrarily deciding what you can and can't...

Did The Publisher's Own Insistence On DRM Inevitably Lead To The Antit...more

We've discussed in the past how it was the book publishers' own stupidity that put them in a position of demanding DRM...

Supreme Court To Review If It's Legal To Resell A Book You Bought Abro...more

This isn't a huge surprise, but it's good to see that the Supreme Court has agreed to hear an important case regarding...

Paramount Thinks That Louis CK Making $1 Million In 12 Days Means He's...more

One of the more annoying things about debates on copyright law, is that when we talk about alternative business models...

Report Shows MPAA 'Experts' Seriously Misrepresented The Uses Of Hotfi...more

We've been following the surprisingly weak case that the MPAA filed against Hotfile for some time -- and, in some ways...

Zazzle Blocks '1-Star Review' Mug, Gets Even Worse Review From Instapa...more

In yet another example of overactive copyright law blocking legitimate content, we find this story from Marco Arment,...

Guy Loses Probation Because Court Decides That Facebook & MySpace ...more

No link on this one because the decision isn't "published" and isn't online, but a court in Arizona has...

Time To Start Again On 'Six Strikes' And Let Internet Users Have A Sea...more

One of our key concerns with the so-called "voluntary" six strikes agreement set up between the ISPs and the...

The Biggest 'Pirates' And 'Freeloaders' Of Them All? College Professor...more

There's an interesting article over at Law.com highlighting just how many lawsuits there are in which college...

Ray Charles' Foundation Sues His Own Children In Copyright Fightmore

The Ray Charles Foundation is now suing seven of his children for $3.5 million -- basically asking for their...

Why The 'Missing 20th Century' Of Books Is Even Worse Than It Seemsmore

There's been quite a bit of chatter lately about some research by Professor Paul Heald from the University of Illinois.

Public Domain Starves While Copyright Office Struggles To Modernizemore

One of the biggest problems with copyright law is orphaned works—material for which the copyright status is impossible...

NYTimes OpEd Explains Why Infringement Isn't Theftmore

We've argued for years that it's absolutely improper to call infringement "theft." Some, of course, have...

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