* A week after voicing its support for the MPAA's decision to sue Internet movie pirates, the VSDA will join the MPAA's new anti-piracy education campaign. The organization will provide posters, counter cards and trailers for in-store monitors to n * A week after...
Since they were enacted in 1998, the "anti-circumvention" provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act ("DMCA"), codified in section 1201 of the Copyright Act, have not been used as Congress envisioned. Congress meant to stop copyright pirates from defeating anti-piracy protections added to copyrighted works, and to ban "black box"...
BETHPAGE, N.Y. -- A $30 million anti-piracy verdict Cablevision Systems Corp. won against a Chicago-area firm has been reversed by a federal appeals panel. BETHPAGE, N.Y. -- A $30 million anti-piracy verdict Cablevision Systems Corp. won against a Chicago-area firm has been...
This article summarizes and gives information about music copyright issues. Microsoft Corp. is out with a new software release that it says will enhance copyright protection for the music industry. Music CD sales slumped 11 percent last year in the U.S. and record labels continued to be bedeviled by the...
The wide use of Internet has brought to fore disputes concerning copying of digital music, transferring it to different formats or exchanging them online. Music companies are once again at odds with consumer electronic manufacturers over this issue. The paper discusses anti-piracy measures being taken by digital content owners and...
Congress won't go after gray-market imports...brand-name products made abroad under license and imported to compete with costlier versions of the same goods made for sale in the U.S. Distributors, manufacturers and antipiracy advocates are pushing ha Congress won't go after gray-market imports...brand-name products made abroad...
File-Swapping Service Napster is reportedly in talks with Microsoft to use the software maker's music copyright protection technology. The Los Angeles Times reported Friday that Napster hopes to use Microsoft's anti-piracy technology to persuade the music industry to allow songs that it has restricted the file-trading service from listing. Microsoft...
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY * Three anti-piracy bills didn't make it through Congress before the 108th session ended and will now have to begin their journey again in the next Congress session. * The future success of these...
LOS ANGELES--With their losses from digital piracy mounting, the studios are pooling their resources to spur development of new technological barriers against illegal copying and distribution of movies. 20th Century Fox, Paramount, Warner Bro LOS ANGELES--With their losses...
SAN RAFAEL--BUSINESS WIRE--Nov. 26, 1996--GASPr, a PC asset tracking auditing tool developed by Attest Systems, Inc., has been licensed by the Software Publishers Association SPA for use in the SPA's anti-piracy actions. GASP will be the standard for the SPA in their audits because it allows them to conduct...
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA, is expanding its own anti-piracy efforts. It is using new technologies to make it easier to identify counterfeit copies of its software, and has launched an aggressive Internet monitoring program to address sites t Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA, is expanding its own...
Commerce Township-based z4 Technologies, privately owned by David Colvin, sued software giants Microsoft Corp. and Autodesk, charging that product-activation technology used in their software to reduce piracy infringed on two of z4's anti-piracy pate Commerce Township-based z4 Technologies, privately owned by David Colvin, sued software...
Byline: COLIN GIBBS The fight against digital rights management gained an unlikely backer as Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs called for record companies to offer music without anti-piracy software. Jobs, in an open letter posted on...
AT&T Broadband had a cathartic anti-piracy moment last week, when it staged a photo op to draw attention to its Los Angeles regional hotline, 1-800-35-THEFT. The cameras rolled and clicked as a worker steamrolled 3,000 "cooked" AT&T...