A devastating hack on Sony late last year exposed embarrassing details about Hollywood’s darker side, including a secret campaign by the movie industry to bring about new copyright controls. Dubbed “Project Goliath,” the plan… Read more »
Ever since Germany’s Günther Oettinger became the new EU commissioner for the digital economy, with copyright reform as part of his brief, he has been making noises about getting Google to… Read more »
Traffic-measurement firm Chartbeat says that external traffic to Spanish news sites is down by double digits in the wake of their removal from the Google News index Read more »
Having lobbied hard for a Spanish law that forces Google to pay royalties for using snippets of articles in its News service, and having since seen the company say it would… Read more »
Aereo filed for voluntary bankruptcy on Thursday, a move that the company says will allow it to “maximize the value of its business and assets” without being dragged down by ongoing… Read more »
Can companies like Oracle exert copyright over basic software instructions? A new petition from leading computer scientists makes it more likely the Supreme Court will hear an appeal of a decision… Read more »
German media companies have been fighting with Google for years over what they claim is the search giant’s theft of their news content, but after being removed from Google News for… Read more »
Günther Oettinger told Handelsblatt on Tuesday that he wants to introduce an EU-wide copyright law that would extract money from U.S. firms such as Google, as well as from European users… Read more »
German publishers who recently accused Google of blackmail for threatening to stop listing their stories in Google News – after they tried for years to wrangle copyright cash out of Google… Read more »
Google is demoting pirate sites further in its search rankings. That news is one nugget contained in a larger report that details the company’s ongoing anti-piracy efforts. Read more »