The Commerce Department recommendations, which represent the views of the Obama Administration, come as the Judiciary Committee remains very much in fact-finding mode in its review, setting up the potential for… Read more »
While the proposed Unlocking Technology Act would certainly address the controversy of cellphone unlocking it would quite a bit farther than previous bills to deal will phone locks, and farther than… Read more »
Many long-standing legal rules of engagement between publishers and consumers tilted the playing field in unexpected ways in the first quarter. The period also saw a major expansion in the amount… Read more »
Have you checked out Vine recently? Legendary pop artist Prince has, with his record label filing a copyright notice with Twitter regarding videos on Vine. It seems like the general public… Read more »
This Wednesday (3/20), U.S. Register of Copyrights Maria Pallante is scheduled to testify before the House Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet on her office’s recommendations for a comprehensive… Read more »
There are many in Washington itching for a shot at the DMCA’s anti-circumvention provisions generally who may try to seize on the bi-partisan support for cell phone unlocking as a vehicle… Read more »
What both the White House and the FCC are saying, in effect, is that in this case at least the anti-circumvention provision of the DMCA inappropriately extends the reach of copyright… Read more »
After a fan posted a video of a horrific crash at a NASCAR event, the organizer removed it claiming copyright infringement, but Google over-ruled the company — an example of a… Read more »