This paper discusses the evolution of copyright law in order to meet the challenges of the digital age. It provides background on the Digital Millennium Copyright Act's ("DMCA") anti-circumvention measures, constitutional challenges against the statute, judicial interpretations of key terms in the DMCA, and the difficulty in preserving certain "fair...
This paper reviews current copyright law in the United States and considers the unique aspects of digital technology's challenge to that law. It also examines the prospects for a market-based resolution to copyright disputes over digital content and explores the effect of potential revisions to copyright law on economic efficiency...
Digital Rights Management DRM refers to the technology that copyright owners use to protect digital media. This report surveys several of the DRM bills that were introduced in the 107th Congress and those that are pending in the 108th Congress. Generally, the bills are directed at two separate goals. One...
This paper examines the copyright issues facing streaming media. The paper details the arcane requirements for digital performances, the controversy over how ephemeral RAM copies should be treated, and the current rulemaking on the statutory digital performance license. Streaming media face complex requirements detailing what constitutes a non-interactive transmission eligible...
This publication provides an introductory survey of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 ("DMCA") and recent case-law developments affecting the application of copyright to the Internet. The copyright law aims to benefit society by fostering the creation and dissemination of works of authorship. It achieves this goal by providing...
In this news release Electronic Frontier Foundation EFF urges New Zealand to avoid adopting copyright laws similar to the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act DMCA. In the U.S. the DMCA has proven dangerous to free speech, scientific research, and technical innovation. The EFF filing in New Zealand is part of...
LIVINGSTON, N.J. -- An executive of BurrellesLuce, the country's largest media monitoring and measurement firm, will conduct a seminar on "What Every PR Professional Must Know about Copyright in the Digital World" on October 27 during the PRSA International Conference at the Detroit Marriott - Renaissance Center in Detroit, Michigan....
Buying YouTube has landed Google in a copyright confrontation with media giant Viacom that may cost it more than the $1.65bn it paid for the site in the first place. Stephen Foley reports There is a young woman in spectacles and an orange wig dancing around her...
LIVINGSTON, N.J. -- Addressing an issue that is gaining urgency with the ongoing digitization of news content, BurrellesLuce has produced a white paper that aims to help PR practitioners reduce their risk of unwittingly violating copyright rules. "Copyright Compliance: What Every Media Relations Professional Needs to Know" describes...
ALA Editions is now offering Intellectual Property: Everything the Digital-Age Librarian Needs to Know (ISBN: 978-0-8389-0948-5, 152 pp., $45 ALAmembers, $50 nonmembers) by Timothy Wherry. Wherry's step-by-step guidance assists the reader in distinguishing among the three types of intellectual property (patents, copyrights, and trademarks) and...
www.DigitalMediaStocks.com ,an investor and industry portal for the digital media sector withinInvestorideas.com, reports on the problem of piracy and the solutionsavailable in technology and enforcement . According to recent reports fromthe MPAA, film theft costs foreign and domestic distributors, retailers andothers $18 billion a year. As the industry pushes...
Canadian courts have upheld that sharing and downloading copyrighted songs is not illegal under Canadian law. Attempts in Parliament to make them illegal have failed. Canadians do pay a surcharge--a tariff--on blank media, MP3 players, purchased downloaded and music subscription services. This...
Russia seems to be somewhere between China almost none and the US lots when it comes to enforcing copyrights. A Moscow court this week dismissed the case against the owner and former head of Allofmp3.com and rejected the damages claims of three music...
Byline: Niranjan Mudholkar Jun. 19--One of the most ubiquitous scenes that you will observe outside many railway stations in Mumbai is of people selling pirated CDs and DVDs. Nowadays, it's become very easy for anybody to create such multiple copies and sell them...
Byline: Susannah Moran Apr 19, 2007 (The Australian - ABIX via COMTEX) -- A court case in Australia will test the copyright laws in relation to the internet. Telstra has brought the case against Premier Media Group, alleging breach of copyright. The case...
ISPs, mobile phone operators, instant messaging services, video- and music-sharing Web sites such as YouTube, open-source software producers and other IT companies could face criminal sanctions, including prison time for employees, if their networks, software programs or online services are used to carry illegally copied material...
Simmering tensions exploded into all-out war Tuesday between the world's biggest Internet company and the traditional media conglom that's feeling the most pain from the 'Net. Viacom's decision to sue YouTube and its corporate parent Google for $1 billion reflects the MTV...
Abstract. Advancement of knowledge and progress in technology drives the need for protecting inventions, new ideas, writings, music, and other media. While abundant, intellectual property and copyright issues are not simple, and the United States has adopted multiple rules via treaties worldwide. Academia has been fortunate...
By Paul Sweeting Twenty-two years ago, the Supreme Court settled as a matter of law the question of whether "time-shifting" of copyrighted works is a fair use under U.S. law. In Sony v. Universal , better known as...
Byline: David Crowe Sep 13, 2006 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Australia's Communications Minister, Helen Coonan, will introduce three bills to reform media laws on 14 September 2006. They include changes to laws governing media ownership and stronger...
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