ARLINGTON, Va. -- Last week's federal court ruling in the CleanFlicks case proved how copyright law has tilted toward content owners at the expense of the public, according to Consumer Electronics Association (CEAR) President and CEO Gary Shapiro. A federal court in Denver found that CleanFlicks, a business that bought...
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: * The Congressional Budget Office suggesting that lawmakers think twice before enacting any further revisions to copyright law, much to the chagrin of the studios, record companies and videogame publishers. * While Con ...
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...
WASHINGTON--The first thing to note about the Supreme Court's decision to hear an appeal challenging the validity of the Copyright Term Extension Act is how unusual it is. Copyright law has never been a favorite subject of the court, and it...
The question of copyright law in the digital age was the subject of recent hearings before the House Subcommittee on Courts and Intellectual Property. Under discussion: a change in the definition of publication to include works transmitted electronically. The proposed bill--H.R. 2441--would also impose criminal penalties on people who "intentionally...
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY * Likely to sail through Congress quickly, the Inducing Copyright Infringement Act will fundamentally change current copyright law. * Rather that detail the bill, opponents are working to narrow the scope of its legisla...
A surprisingly long roster of interest groups has come forward to demand that DVDs be exempt from the anticircumvention provision, in effect to make it legal to hack DVDs. The workings of the U.S. Copyright Office seldom get a lot of ...
After almost three years of research, the independent Section 108 Study Group has issued recommendations to the U.S. Library of Congress related to how libraries, archives, and museums handle copyrighted materials in the digital environment. The Library of Congress convened the group under the auspices of the U.S. Copyright...
In my February 2006 IO column, I described the Section 108 Study Group and its mandate. The group's report was released in March with a number of recommendations and comments. Below is a summary of key issues. Section 108 of the U.S. Copyright Act allows libraries and archives...
To: TECHNOLOGY EDITORS Contact: Jamie Bray of the Foundation for American CommunicationsFACS, +1-626-584-0010 Registration is required in order to participate Congress, the FCC and the Aging Internet: Clearing the PolicyLogjams A FACS tele-seminar for journalists PASADENA, Calif., Jan. 29 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A decade agothe novelty of the Internet staggered...
The AFM has partnered with individual artists and other music industry organizations committed to fairness in radio to launch the musicFIRST coalition. The coalition aims to correct the U.S. Copyright Act so that performers will be paid when their work is broadcast on over-the-air radio. Martha Reeves of Martha...
U.S.-China relations will get worse before they get better. Congress will add fuel to the fire by pushing punitive measures in response to the paltry results from the recent talks in Washington. Chinese President Hu Jintao is also under pressure at home to stand...
Byline: American Constitution Society for Law and Policy WASHINGTON, April 30 AScribe Newswire -- The American Constitution society today released the following advisory. - - - - WHAT: A symposium of musicians, academics, attorneys, policymakers and...
Susan Schwab, the U.S. trade representative, reached a deal with trade officials from Russia during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Hanoi, Vietnam, on Nov. 19, 2006. It calls for the former Soviet country to "significantly upgrade" its intellectual property protections in exchange for membership in...
Byline: JEFFREY SILVA Prepaid wireless king TracFone Wireless Inc. filed a lawsuit in Florida to repeal a new Library of Congress rule exempting mobile-phone locking software from U.S. copyright law. The suit, filed Dec. 5 in...
Mark it on your calendar: Nov. 27, 2006, the day a Colorado cellphone recycling outfit accomplished what high-powered lawyers could not and chiseled a chink in the armor of the mobile-phone industry's cherished business model. The Library of Congress' decision that...
This column is not sexy or funny, but it's really important if you represent older authors or the families of deceased authors. And even if you don't now, you may one day and when you do, you will need to know that authors and their heirs very often have the...
ABSTRACT Alteration of a motion picture has become legal as a result of the Family Movie Act, an attachment to the Family Entertainment and Copyright Act approved by Congress and signed by the President in early-2005. The "family movie" provision, championed by U.S. Representative Lamar Smith, Chairman of...
Byline: Pat Schroeder and Bob Barr, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES You're probably reading the byline above and wondering, "What could these two, from opposite sides of the aisle in Congress, possibly have in common with each other?" The answer is when...
In the U.S. Constitution, Congress is tasked with granting only one specific property right: "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries" (Art. 1, S 8). That grant of right is...
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