DMCA News

Saturday, 11 July 2009, 7:40 pm Article: Joan Brunwasser At the end of part one of our interview, you left off with Bev Harris's breakthrough discovery about Diebold.

YouTube won a small victory this week in the website's everlasting campaign not to have its pants sued off by copyright owners.

In a key privacy decision, the Supreme Court this week let stand a lower court's ruling that allows Internet service providers to keep their customers' identities secret, even if the recording industry suspects them of illegally sharing music online.

Scripps Networks, LLC respects others' intellectual property rights and has made every effort to secure appropriate clearances for all proprietary intellectual properties that Scripps Networks directly makes available on its and its affiliates' websites, including but not limited to: www.HGTV.com, www.FoodNetwork.com, www.DIYnetwork.com, ...

In the US, thanks to safe harbor rules in the DMCA and the CDA, courts will often toss out misdirected lawsuits that go after a service provider for the actions of a user.

Unauthorized Mac clone maker, Psystar, filed a motion to dismiss its bankruptcy case in Florida on Thursday claiming it couldn't afford to simultaneously deal with that filing along with Apple's copyright infringement case in California.

The recording industry was handed a victory Tuesday when a federal court found that the company overseeing the Usenet user group is guilty of copyright infringement.

A federal judge yesterday found Usenet.com liable for just about every copyright infringement claim on the books: direct infringement, inducement of infringement, contributory infringement, and vicarious infringement.

Music:- "Greetings, fellow p2pnetet readers," says Robert. "I came across an interesting video where the artists give their opinions of music executives and the RIAA". You'll find the video, Why Radio & Music Industry Sucks Nowadays from Frank Zappa,A at the end.

An anonymous reader writes "Michael Geist reports that the two Canadian Ministers responsible for copyright seem to have reversed course on copyright and now appear to oppose a Canadian DMCA.

Unauthorized Mac clone maker Psystar suffered a serious blow on Monday when the Judge overseeing its bankruptcy case in Florida granted Apple's Motion for Relief From Stay, allowing the copyright infringement case against Psystar to resume in norther California.

As yet more unsanctioned apps emerge to unlock and jailbreak iPhones, Apple and a digital rights group fight ongoing battle over the issue.

The film industry fired another legal broadside at RealNetworks and RealDVD. Real's Facet DVD player The Motion Picture Association of America has accused Real of misleading the court about the company's attempts to circumvent ARccOS and RipGuard and whether the technologies are actually copy protection measures.

We'll be honest, while others were predicting how poorly implemented the new Managed Copy system for Blu-ray would be, we were dreaming of new ways we'd like to enjoy our favorite movies.

Palm "politely" warned hacker group Pre Dev Wiki not to unlock functionality banned by provider Sprint.

According to research group Ipsos Reid's "Social Networking: 2009" poll, Canadians are flocking to social networking sites.

We've often talked about the importance of service provider "safe harbors" found in the CDA and the DMCA.

The cybersecurity review says we need to improve academic and industry collaboration on cybersecurity and other technology issues.

Jason points us to the news that, once again, someone who doesn't own the copyright to something has sent a DMCA takedown on a YouTube video .

Today marks the completion of the U.S. transition to digital television, as TV stations switch off their analog transmitters.