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Erasing Registry Entry and Deleting Files Causes DMCA Lawsuit

Wed, 22 Aug 2007 10:06:00-0400

By way of Slashdot, Wired has reported that a man who distributed a program that deletes registry entries and files is being sued for violation of the DMCA. In short, the files and registry entries prevent members of Coupon.com from ...

Movie Studios Will be Stealing Your Bandwidth

Wed, 29 Nov 2006 17:14:00-0400

BitTorrent is partnering with whole slew of media providers such as 20th Century Fox, G4, Kadokawa Pictures USA, Lionsgate, MTV Networks, and others to deliver movies and other media over the INTERNET. To quote the article; "BitTorr...

Tougher DRM in Windows Media Player 11

Fri, 22 Sep 2006 09:45:00-0400

The release notes for the beta release of Windows Media Player 11 indicate that the DRM policy will be considerable tighter, most notably is the inability of moving your DRM'd media "Licenses" from computer to computer. &nb...

User Created Media, MySpace, UTube and Rights Clearance

Fri, 15 Sep 2006 11:09:00-0400

Universal Music is a wee bit upset at all the user created media available on social networking sites such as MySpace and UTube that open infringes on their copyrighted works. And rightly so, as copyright and rights clearances should be observe...

Scrubbing Video ruled as against U.S. copyright law

Tue, 11 Jul 2006 12:18:00-0400

CBC reported that Axing sex, swearing from films violates copyright: court in a lawsuit by 16 U.S. directors against three Utah based companies that scrub films.I found the quote from Michael Apted interesting in regards to "Unauthorized ed...

I want to move to UTAH just so I can vote for Pete Ashdown

Mon, 01 May 2006 12:43:00-0400

Pete Ashdown is running against Senator Orrin Hatch (he sponsored the DMCA). Being a techie at heart, there's a lot I like about Mr. Ashdown, but most of all, he's against DRM. Here's a great article in Wired about Pete.

Rights Clearance: Happy Birthday can be expensive.

Fri, 18 Nov 2005 10:50:00-0400

The Center for Social Media has a great article on the difficulties of "Rights Clearance" the film makers have in trying to get their movies distributed when they've incorporated content that may fall outside of Fair Use, and even if it doe...