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Orrin Hatch: Software Pirate? This story has some legs. According to the Wired article: The senator’s site makes extensive use of a JavaScript menu system developed by Milonic Solutions, a software company based in the United Kingdom. The copyright-protected code has not been licensed for use on Hatch’s website. Statement by Milonic Solutions. An antipiracy …
According to an article in the USC Daily Trojan, the university, which is an ISP, may be “legally obligated to turn over the names of account holders suspected of breaking computer copyright laws.”
A tempest is swirling around the prepared and spontaneous statements of Senator Orrin Hatch before the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, “The Dark Side of a Bright Idea: Will Personal and National Security Risks of P2P Networks Compromise the Promise of P2P Networks?” on June 17. See this AP article, Hatch Takes Aim at Illegal Downloading …
Internet Law 2003, Program of Instruction for Lawyers, Harvard Law School, presented by Prof. Jonathan Zittrain, Prof. Charles Nesson and John Palfrey. Links are provided to resources on course topics that include: jurisdiction on the internet; P2P file sharing; digital democracy; litigation and the digital environment; and privacy.
Copyright and licensing for digital preservation. “Libraries cannot preserve digital material they do not own. Adrienne Muir describes a new project to identify copyright and licensing issues that currently hinder digital preservation and looks at whether new legislation (UK) will help.”
The dead poets society: The copyright term and the public domain, by Matthew Rimmer. “This paper…advocates a critical theory of copyright law, which highlights the gap between the symbolic significance of legislation, and its instrumental effects in terms of economic impact and cultural costs. It demands a greater scrutiny of the politics and the rhetoric …
Professor Pamela Samuelson, School of Information Management and Systems, University of California at Berkeley, published a new article, The Constitutional Law of Intellectual Property After Eldred v. Ashcroft, 50 J. Cop. Soc’y (forthcoming 2003). Link via A Copyfighter’s Musings, which reviews the article, and its significant citations from other forthcoming articles.
Notification of Agreement Under the Small Webcaster Settlement Act of 2002, Federal Register, June 11, 2003. “The Copyright Office is publishing an agreement which sets rates and terms for the reproduction and performance of sound recordings made by a noncommercial webcaster under the section 112 and 114 statutory licenses.” See also a recent posting with …
Commercial Law for the New Commerce UCITA (Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act) and UETA (Uniform Electronic Transactions Act) (PowerPoint) by Patricia Brumfield Fry, Visiting Professor of Law, Wm. Mitchell College of Law.
Privacy vs. Internet piracy: “Verizon and Earthlink have informed five Internet service customers that they can expect to be hearing from the record industry very, very soon. But the Recording Industry Association of America says it hasn’t decided what to do with the names it won last week in a bitter court battle over Internet …
From PBS OnlineNewsHour: Is downloading copyrighted music tantamount to stealing? Lawrence Lessig, an expert on Internet law from Stanford University’s Law School, and Matt Oppenheim, Senior Vice President of Business and Legal Affairs for the Recording Industry Association of America, answer your questions about the debate over digital copyrights.
Music labels coming to grips with Web piracy: “…for the first time in the Internet file-sharing wars, record industry executives have in recent weeks started to address music fans directly, both offering carrots and wielding sticks to persuade people to buy their product again. How well they succeed is likely to determine the way music …
