Tag: legal
ConceivablyTech – The Ultimate Patent Troll Patent: Get Sued When You File A Patent
Just when you thought patents couldn’t get any more stupid, IBM comes through.
Center for the Study of the Public Domain – What Could Have Been Entering the Public Domain on January 1, 2011?
Wouldn’t it be nice if copyright actually made some sense, but that’s crazy talk.
PCMag.com – RIAA Misfires, Grazes PCMag.com
Apparently blaming journalists is now how the music industry will fight its battles.
Electronic Frontier Foundation – Join EFF in Standing up Against Internet Censorship
What more do you need to know?
BBC News – EU launches antitrust probe into alleged Google abuses
Not too shocked that Google is accused of abusing it’s power, that being said I actually would be shocked to see Google found guilty.
Electronic Frontier Foundation – Legal Attack on Internet Music Storage Threatens ‘Safe Harbor’ Rules for Online Businesses
Online storage and streaming service for music, gets in trouble with EMI.
Ars Technica – No, you don’t own it: Court upholds EULAs, threatens digital resale
EULA made to turn customers into criminals.
Electronic Frontier Foundation – EFF Wins New Legal Protections for Video Artists, Cell Phone Jailbreakers, and Unlockers
New exceptions to the DMCA, the most important of these has to be the ability to break DVD encryption for fair use.
Boing Boing – Brazil’s copyright law forbids using DRM to block fair use
Brazil has decent copyright laws that balance both copyright holders and normal individuals.
Anti-Piracy Group Says: ‘Child Porn Is Great’ Since It Gets Politicians To Block File Sharing Sites – Techdirt
Copyright groups apparently really like child porn because it’s easy to get a politician behind blocking it.