Copyright

Posts with category: copyright

• Google and Perfect10: DMCA at its best • 24 Jun 2006
  While searching for something really innocent on Google (honestly!), I got the following warning:
• Google files patents for contextual wifi advertising • 28 Mar 2006
  Google has filed and published the following patent applications:
• The RIAA shoots itself in the foot again • 16 Feb 2006
  Image by FactoryJoe
• Thought DMCA was bad? Here’s DTCS! • 27 Dec 2005
  While people were buying Christmas trees and turkeys, the U.S. House of Representatives, and specifically Jim Sensenbrenner (Republican) and John Conyers (Democrat), have prepared a very nice gift to the MPAA:
• The MPA and other people’s money • 14 Dec 2005
  Like the RIAA, the MPA has the logical reaction to disruptive forces: send out the lawyers.
• Consumers digital rights • 14 Nov 2005
  The BEUC (“Bureau Européen des Unions de consommateurs” or European Consumers Organisation) has set up a web site to inform consumers on which rights they still DO have on their digital content: www.consumersdigitalrights.org
• Adam Curry goes 100% podsafe • 10 Nov 2005
  Adam Curry, godfather of podcasting, has had an epiphany:
• How not to do copy-protection: Sony Music • 04 Nov 2005
  Error #1: take a really broad definition of “backwards compatible”
• Doctorow: DRM is evil • 25 Jun 2004
  Some stuff you just know without being able to express it adequately. I hate badly designed copy-protection schemes, but I couldn’t find the right arguments to make my case without being ‘against’ artist. And then someone better informed comes along...
• Portable audio & copy protection • 28 Apr 2004
  Dear Record Company,