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The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), has published an analysis and a group of very useful resources on the so-called Super DMCA legislation that is under consideration in state legislatures around the country. See their press release here, and the following links: State “Super-DMCA” Legislation: MPAA’s Stealth Attack on Your Living Room State-Level “Super DMCA” Initiatives …
My thanks to attorney Walter Simon who responded to my request for assistance with a translation concerning yesterday’s posting about the new German copyright law. Walter sent me this link to his blog posting of April 10 that references resources in English on the new law. In addition, he also recommended this link from the …
Princeton University student Joseph Barillari posted an essay, which has since been updated several times, titled An analysis of the RIAA’s complaint against Dan Peng ’05, on his blog. This document is a useful resource that contributes to the understanding of the specific technologies and their applications at issue in the RIAA’s lawsuit on contributory …
According to the Chronicle of Higher Education, the recently amended German Copyright Law (pdf – in German) now exempts universities from fees associated with providing students and scholars with copyrighted materials in a digital environment. For additional information, please see this April 10 posting from amiga-news.de, New Copyright as Good as Succeeded, which provides some …
Today the the Copyright Office held a hearing on its Rulemaking on Exemptions from Prohibition on Circumvention of Technological Measures that Control Access to Copyrighted Works. The panel that testified on “compilations of lists of websites blocked by censorware (“filtering software”) applications,” included attorney Jonathan Band (who represents many organizations including the American Association of …
U.S. District Judge Richard G. Stearns (MA) dismissed a lawsuit by the ACLU on behalf of Harvard law student and cyber-activist Ben Edelman who argued a first amendment right to create software to decrypt an Internet blocking program by N2H2. The filtering software, used by public and school libraries, is marketed as “CIPA compliant.” Edelman …
The Information Law Weblog was launched March 28, is by librarian/researcher/author Paul Pedley, and focuses on copyright, data protection and freedom of information issues in the UK. Well worth a visit. (Thanks to DC for the link.)
Heather Newman at the Detroit Free Press reports that the damages sought by the RIAA in just one of the four lawsuits they filed on April 3 against college students total the unbelievable sum of $97.8 million (incorrectly stated as trillion in the article). This calculation results from multiplying the maximum damages per copyright violation …
As a follow-up to my posting yesterday on the lawsuits against four college students filed by the RIAA, this article provides further details. The RIAA is seeking $150,000 for each of the music files allegedly copied by the named students. Officials from Princeton and the Michigan Technological University registered their displeasure with the charges as …
The RIAA today announced lawsuits against four students who run local area networks on university campuses used to “illegally distribute millions of copyrighted songs.” According to this Reuters report, two of the students attend Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, one is at Princeton University and the other at Michigan Technological University.
Via A Copyfighter’s Musings, a report on what transpired during the public hearing held April 3 on Massachusetts House Bill 2743; MA Super DMCA Hearing Report. See my previous posting on proposed legislation to extend the DMCA here. From Freedom to Tinker, MPAA Revises Model Super-DMCA Legislation that links to “revised version of its model …
The Penn State provost, Rodney A. Erickson, issued an e-mail warning to students concerning potential penalties administered by the university and copyright holders against students making illegal copies of copyrighted music, movies and recordings. The tenor and tone of the message conveys the obvious impact made on academic institutions by the industry campaign to blunt …
