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• RIAA opposes fair use bill: recording industry trade group fears piracy.(LEGAL)

  - 2007-05-01

  With the popularity of sites such as YouTube, there's been a lot of talk lately about the concept of fair use. A new bill in the U.S. Congress aimed at protecting fair use rights for consumers of copyrighted material, however, would "legalize hacking," in the words...

  Tags: DMCA, Hacking, piracy, RIAA, SECURITY

• Legal setback in RIAA's hunt for file-sharers: in victory for ISPs, judge's OK needed before filing suit.(a federal appeals court nixes music labels' methods of tracking down identities of online music file-swappers)

  - 2003-12-22

  WASHINGTON -- Dealing a serious blow to the recording industry's controversial anti-piracy campaign, a federal appeals court last week nixed music labels' methods of tracking down identities of online music file-swappers. The ruling, from a t WASHINGTON --...

  Tags: DMCA, file-swapping, identity, Internet, Internet Service Provider, online music, RIAA

• "Acts" Wound: Fair Use and Music Lovers Vs. The Recording Industry Association of America's Secret Weapon

  BNET - 2003-11-06

  After taking into account factors such as technology, transaction costs, and opportunity costs, businesses often give discounts to consumers when it seems like the best economic decision. In the case of digital music and digital recording devices, the music recording industry has done the same. This paper focuses on the...

  Tags: Washington State University, RIAA, DMCA, Digital Media, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

• Copyright's Digital Dilemma Today: Fair Use or Unfair Constraints? Part I: The Battle over File Sharing

  - 2003-10-01

  Editor's note: This article has been split into two parts. The first covers the legal controversy over file sharing. The second, to be published in the December/January 2004 issue of the Bulletin, covers other critical developments in e-copying.In previous issues we surveyed some of the critical legal and policy developments...

  Tags: DMCA, file-sharing, INTERNET, Napster Inc., P2P, RIAA, Sony Corp., Strategy

• Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 is proof Internet law still

  - 2003-08-29

  In the world of digital intellectual property, the law still struggles to keep up with Internet technology. Precedents continue to be set based on the interpretation of 1998's Digital Millennium Copyright Act, creating a face-off between copyright and First Amendment protections and raising questions about just how far these interpretations...

  Tags: DMCA, DVD, INTERNET, lawyer, RIAA

• DMCA proof Internet law still evolving

  - 2003-08-29

  In the world of digital intellectual property, the law still struggles to keep up with Internet technology. Precedents continue to be set based on the interpretation of 1998's Digital Millennium Copyright Act, creating a face-off between copyright and First Amendment protections and raising questions about just how far these interpretations...

  Tags: DMCA, DVD, INTERNET, lawyer, RIAA

• Court dismisses digital millennium copyright case

  - 2002-03-01

  In November a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit over the Digital Millennium Copyright Act DMCA filed by Princeton professor Edward Felten and his research team, who sought to have the law declared unconstitutional and to be granted immunity from prosecution under it. Felten, a professor of computer science, feared that...

  Tags: DMCA, Government, RIAA

• Academic Freedom v. Anti-Circumvention

  - 2001-11-01

  Reports of a Princeton University computer scientist who responded to an invitation from the Recording Industry Association of America RIAA to test its Secure Digital Musical Initiative SDMI have raised concerns in the research and scientific communities. SDMI is a consortium of parties interested in preventing piracy of digital music,...

  Tags: conference, DMCA, researcher, RIAA

• PROFESSOR FLUB.(Brief Article)

  - 2001-06-11

  sweeting By picking on Professor Felten, the RIAA was creating something altogether different: a sympathetic victim of the DMCA. Although normally allies on matters relating to copyright law, there was a day back in April when...

  Tags: DMCA, Electronic Frontier Foundation, RIAA

• Copyright Thugs - Industry Trend or Event

  - 2001-05-14

  In America, we don't hand over the exclusive right to conduct research to industry consortiums. The Secure Digital Music Initiative is a consortium of 200 companies whose aim, according to its Web site, is to build standards "that protect the playing, storing and distributing of digital music." The group...

  Tags: consortium, DMCA, RIAA, SDMI, Strategy, U.S. Congress