The future of peer-to-peer file-sharing is entwined, for better or worse, with copyright law. Copyright owners have already targeted not only the makers of file-sharing clients like Napster, Scour, Audiogalaxy, Aimster and Kazaa, and Morpheus, but also companies that provide products that rely on or add value to public P2P...
Recent headlines have brought the use of music on the Internet to the forefront, particularly the 261 copyright infringement lawsuits filed by the Recording Industry Association of America RIAA against some of the most active fans sharing songs on services like Kazaa. RIAA's lawsuits are for downloading music illegally over...
The record industry recently filed lawsuits against four individual university network users, claiming hundreds of millions of dollars in damages based on their peer-to-peer ("P2P") file-sharing activities and consequent violations of federal copyright laws. P2P technology can be used in lawful and constructive ways as, for example, when professors place...
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...
Copyright initially developed in response to the printing press and gradually evolved to encompass other methods of mechanically storing and reproducing works of authorship, such as photography, motion pictures, and sound recordings. The advent of broadcasting led to the expansion of copyright to encompass exploitation of creative expression in new...
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...
Accessing music over the Internet has become a significant activity for many Internet users. Although there is little agreement on which new models will emerge as predominant in the music industry, Internet music transmissions are likely to reshape the ways in which music is both created and delivered to consumers....
AsiaInfo Services 03-29-2001 Free music on Internet illegal BEIJING, Mar 29, 2001 AsiaPort via COMTEX -- Chinese dotcoms should learn from Napster and mp3.com of the United States and stop providing free music without copyright for people to AsiaInfo...
MONACO, November 13 /PRNewswire/ -- His Serene Highness Prince Albert II announced Professor Lawrence Lessig as the winner of the second annual Monaco Media Prize tonight at a special ceremony during the 2008 Monaco Media Forum in Monte-Carlo. Lawrence Lessig, professor of Law at Stanford Law School...
A tiny Bala Cynwyd law firm that sued Google Inc. alleging copyright infringement has won a huge settlement requiring the Internet giant to reimburse authors and publishers for use of published materials offered through its Web site. The $125 million settlement announced yesterday calls for the establishment of a registry...
LAS VEGAS, Oct. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- The international law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP announced that Edward Chansky has joined its Las Vegas, NV office in an of counsel capacity in the Intellectual Property and Technology practice. The announcement came on the heels of the firm's Las Vegas IP practice...
Internet luminaries put search into perspective CHICAGO -- Search Engine Strategies (http://www.SearchEngineStrategies.com) returns to Chicago this year with an exciting line up of popular sessions and new content at SES Chicago 2008. The SES event, taking place at the Chicago Hilton, December 8th - 12th, draws not only...
LOS ANGELES AFP — US federal police on Wednesday arrested a blogger for posting songs from a yet-to-be released Guns N' Roses album titled "Chinese Democracy" online without the rock band's permission. Kevin Cogill, who uses "Skwerl" as an Internet name, is charged with violating copyright laws by...
GUEST COLUMN THE INTERNET, hence Internet law, pene- trates every aspect of business. Certain Inter- net legal issues may be specific to the type of business. However, many issues are common for all types of businesses. Among the most valuable Internet laws that protect businesses are...
Off-shore drilling, immigration and protection of copyrights were among the issues discussed by Congressman Howard Berman at a breakfast event Aug. 14 sponsored by the Valley Industry & Commerce Association. As chairman of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet and Intellectual Property, Berman has taken a...
SAN FRANCISCO AFP — Game-making giant Hasbro has filed a lawsuit against Scrabble knock-off Scrabulous and sent a notice demanding Facebook remove the popular game from the social-networking website. Scrabulous.com was launched by brothers Rajat and Jayant Agarwalla in India in 2005 and rocketed to popularity as a...
The personal viewing habits and online identities of millions of YouTube users are to be handed over to an American media giant after a court rejected arguments that such a move amounted to a massive invasion of internet privacy. Under the terms of a US court judgment,...
Persistent illegal downloaders in France are to have their internet access cut, after a controversial anti-piracy law was endorsed by the French cabinet. Under the rules, which come into effect in January, it will be "three strikes and you're out" for French Web users downloading copyrighted films...
The Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada supports proposed amendments to copyright law, tabled yesterday in the House of Commons, regarding educational use of Internet materials and the rules for Internet Service Providers, but is very concerned about the prohibition against circumventing Technological Measures and some of the continuing...
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