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Thursday May 16 | Boing Boing

EFF beats the Trans Pacific Partnership to Peru, sounds the alarm...

The latest round of the Trans-Pacific Partnership starts today in Lima, Peru. Embedded in the trade agreement is an IP chapter that, according to leaks , exports the worst of US copyright law -- DRM blocks, extended copyright terms, ISPs as copyright cops -- without even of the judicial and constitutional counterbalances that US activists have ... (more)

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Related Topix: Peru, World News, Science / Technology

Thursday May 16 | EurekAlert!

Amazon and Apple fence off their e-book markets

Recommendation of the EPUB3 standard / Study by researchers from Mainz University handed over to Neelie Kroes, EU Commissioner for the Digital Agenda There are no technical or functional reasons for Amazon and Apple to fence off their e-book worlds using proprietary e-book formats.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology

Thursday May 16 | Managing Rights Management

Apple and Adobe DRM Patent Applications

Thursdays the Patent Office publishes new pending patent applications . Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital rights management .

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Patent / Trademark Law, Law, Computers

Thursday May 16 | Business Wire

Gila LLC Selects Encryptics for Secure Data Management as a Service

Encryption and Digital Rights Management Solution Embedded within Enterprise Infrastructure to Safeguard Information in Servers, File Shares, Call Center Conversations and Emails )--Encryptics, a provider of patented data privacy and protection services for businesses and government, has been selected by GILA LLC to protect vital customer data sent ... (more)

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Privacy, Austin, TX

Tue May 14, 2013

CMSWire

Limelight Orchestrate 2.0 Released for Publishers + Marketers

Providing multiple format content to various devices in real time is a feature many technology providers are striving for in a mobile world, and Limelight Orchestrate 2.0 has been released for doing just that.

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Related Topix: Delve Networks, Limelight Networks, Startups, Clickability, Science / Technology

Managing Rights Management

Intertrust and Samsung DRM Patents

Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents . Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital rights management .

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Patent / Trademark Law, Law

Sys-Con Media

EncrypticsA Expands Data Protection Solution to Cover More than Email

Encryptics, a provider of patented data privacy and protection services for businesses and government, today announced a major upgrade to its software-based data security portfolio.

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Related Topix: Privacy, Science / Technology

New Statesman

How the war on hackers is picking our pockets and risking our lives

Yesterday, Sense About Science held its annual lecture, given by author and activist Cory Doctorow .

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Related Topix: Computer Security, Science / Technology, iPod, DVD Players

Mon May 13, 2013

Information Technology

Brainzsquare Releases a New USB Integrated, Server-Based Copy...

San Jose, CA, May 13, 2013 -- Brainzsquare announced its release of SECUDRIVE Content Guard Server , a server-based copy protection solution into the market.

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MediaPost

New Bill Legalizes Cell-Phone Unlocking, DVD Ripping

The " Unlocking Technology Act of 2013 ," proposed by Rep. Zoe Lofgren , provides that people can tinker with digital locks on software -- the digital rights management technology that prevents people from copying programs -- as long as they aren't doing so in order to infringe copyright.

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Related Topix: Cell Phones, Cellphones, Electronics, US Politics, US News, US House of Representatives, Zoe Lofgren, Democrat, Science / Technology

Free Republic

W3C presses ahead with DRM interface in HTML5

On Friday, the World Wide Web Consortium published the first public draft of Encrypted Media Extensions .

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Related Topix: Science, Computer Science

The Inquirer

W3C publishes draft HTML DRM specification amid growing opposition

THE WORLD WIDE WEB CONSORTIUM has released a first public working draft of its HTML Encrypted Media Extension standard amid ongoing controversy over embedding digital restrictions management into HTML.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Programming Languages

Sat May 11, 2013

InfoWorld

DRM sinks its fangs into HTML5, with help from Netflix, Google, and Microsoft

Remember the battle over DRM? It's back with a vengeance. And this time the battleground isn't Napster or iTunes or the courts -- it's the emerging HTML5 standard.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Microsoft, Startups, Sentillion, Online Music, Napster, DMCA News

The Atlantic

How Defense Distributed Already Upended the World

Defense Distributed's goal is to evaporate the container described by the Second Amendment, making obtaining a firearm trivial enough that even trying to place restrictions on gun manufacturing becomes useless.

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Related Topix: Online Music, DMCA News, Science / Technology

Fri May 10, 2013

Eff.org

Dear US Trade Rep: Don't Shut the Public Out From US-EU Trade Negotiations

We submitted the following comment to the US Trade Rep today regarding the proposed United States-European Union trade agreement.

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Related Topix: Prison, Internet Service Providers, Science / Technology, Criminal Defense Law, Law

GrokLaw

Federal Circuit, en banc, rules in CLS Bank ~pj

ApplevSamsung ApplevSamsung p.2 ArchiveExplorer Autozone Bilski Cases Cast: Lawyers Comes v. MS Contracts/Documents Courts DRM Gordon v MS GPL Grokdoc HTML How To IPI v RH IV v. Google Legal Docs Lodsys MS Litigations MSvB&N News Picks Novell v. MS Novell-MS Deal ODF/OOXML OOXML Appeals OraclevGoogle Patents ProjectMonterey Psystar Quote Database ... (more)

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Open Source Software, Linux, Computers

Slashdot

Copyright Squabble Threatens Accessibility Boost for the Blind

Ars reports on an international treaty being negotiated that would relax restrictions on versions of books made to be more accessible to blind people.

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Information Technology

SaaS Licensing

Sentinel Licensing Development Kit has been honored with a 2013 CODiE award as the best digital rights management solution.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Marketing

Customer Interaction Solutions

Reps. Zoe Lofgren, Thomas Massie, Anna Eshoo & Jared Polis Introduce...

WASHINGTON, May 9 -- Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif. , issued the following news release: Reps.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, US House of Representatives, Zoe Lofgren, Democrat, Anna Eshoo, Representative Thomas Massie, Republican, Representative Jared Polis, DMCA News, Science / Technology

Eff.org

New Bipartisan Bill Proposes Real Fixes to Bad Copyright Law

A new bill introduced in Congress today aims to resolve the restrictions that complicate phone unlocking, and it's doing it the right way.

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Related Topix: DMCA News, Science / Technology

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