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As a follow-up to my posting on October 29, LC Grants Limited Digital Copyright Exemptions, Attorney James S. Tyre of the Censorware Project posted this entry on his blog, Censorware Exemption to DMCA Anti-circumvention Provisions In Effect For Another Three Years, that includes the full text of the Register’s recommendation in support of the censorware …
Last year I posted about 321 Studios’ DVD copying software, and the company is once again back in the news with regard to the recent Library of Congress ruling granting limited digital copyright exemptions. The company’s request for an exemption for its class of works under the DMCA was denied.
“More than a million households deleted all the digital music files they had saved on their PCs in August, according to new information released by The NPD Group. NPD credits the ongoing RIAA anti-piracy campaign and related media attention as having had a measurable effect on the actions of many consumers in regard to the …
Napster has agreed to provide students at Penn State University with free access to their music downloading service. This program is the first in what apparently will be a number of offers to students on campuses throughout the country in an effort to stem the tide of digital music piracy.
From the EFF press release: “Claiming that it is an “anti-piracy mechanism,” the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) today mandated that consumer devices capable of receiving broadcast digital television (DTV) signals must implement content control technologies demanded by the entertainment industry. The “broadcast flag” mandate will go into effect by July 1, 2005.” The FCC’s Report …
Amazon’s Search Inside the Book database which allows consumers the chance to search the text of books and print pages (up to 100 in some cases) prior to purchase, ran into controversy with its launch October 23. Today Wired reported that the service will no longer permit users of the service to print pages that …
As I posted on October 27, two students at MIT created an innovative and supposedly legal music downloading service for use by the students. Reports now indicate the service (called LAMP) has been curtailed due to a licensing dispute.
From 60 Minutes, Pirates of the Internet: “Illegal downloading of full-length feature films is a relatively new phenomenon, but it’s becoming easier and easier to do.”
New Copyright Rules Fail to Provide Fair Access in the Digital World: “In his second triennial rulemaking under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), the Librarian of Congress James Billington has again issued narrow exceptions to the law’s prohibition on circumventing technological locks intended to prevent access to copyrighted digital works. Libraries expressed disappointment that …
Press release from IP Justice: Consumers Still Unable to Make Lawful Use of Digital Media: “Its disappointing that the US Copyright Office and Librarian continue to relinquish their power to protect the rights of American consumers to lawfully use their own property as Congress had intended when it created this rulemaking proceeding in 1998.” Please …
Rulemaking on Exemptions from Prohibition on Circumvention of Technological Measures that Control Access to Copyrighted Works Statement of the Librarian of Congress Relating to Section 1201 Rulemaking Determination of the Librarian of Congress and Text of the Regulation The Recommendation of the Register of Copyrights
This link is to the text of an email sent by the Author’s Guild to its 8,000 plus members, voicing concerns about Amazon’s new Search Inside the Book database: The Guild questions whether proper permissions were received from the authors of the 120,000 books in Amazon’s database. In addition, the organization has deteremined that it …
