Deere & Co won't give out software and data needed for repairs, watchdog told Updated Farming groups demand some kind of actual action from regulators Personal Tech07 Mar 2022 | 78
AI really can't copyright the art it generates – US officials Get ready for robot lobbyists to persuade robot lawmakers to pass robot-friendly laws? AI + ML22 Feb 2022 | 68
Attack on Titan: Four Japanese Manga publishers sue Cloudflare Updated Allege content delivery network enables piracy Legal01 Feb 2022 | 25
Machine needs more Learning: Google Drive dings single-character files for copyright infringement If you're unable to share documents, this may be why Storage25 Jan 2022 | 83
Support specialist Rimini Street found in contempt of court for continued Oracle copyright infringements It took two years for Big Red to find five breaches Legal14 Jan 2022 | 12
Snap continues to make a spectacle of itself as it tries to trademark the word spectacles How about 'idiot goggles'? Personal Tech07 Jan 2022 | 74
Malaysia tweaks copyright law to hit streamers of copyright-infringing content Those enabling piracy may be guilty until they prove otherwise Legal20 Dec 2021 | 18
Feds charge two men with claiming ownership of others' songs to steal YouTube royalty payments Alleged scheme said to have netted $20m since 2017 Security03 Dec 2021 | 30
Dev loses copyright appeal over forensic software after judges rule suite was owned by his employer Did it during work time and got paid for it, affirms Court of Appeal Legal03 Dec 2021 | 34
In latest DMCA review, US Copyright Office eases rules on computer security research, right to repair Game console fixes are limited – and there's no allowance for exploit tools Personal Tech29 Oct 2021 | 12
Judge rejects claims Cloudflare should be held responsible for customers' copyright infringement 'We don’t host the content of the websites at issue' PaaS + IaaS09 Oct 2021 | 46
GitHub stuffs $1m in Stanford Law School's pocket to provide free legal advice to DMCA-hit developers Fellowship funding comes in the wake of Youtube-DL fiasco Devops27 Jul 2021 | 3
Euro court rules YouTube not automatically liable for users illegally uploading copyright-protected material It has to take action on takedowns though, prelim ruling on long-running Sarah Brightman spat finds Legal23 Jun 2021 | 13
Photographer seeks $12m in copyright damages over claims Capcom ripped off her snaps in Resident Evil 4 art From pictures of shattered glass to patterns on doors and much more Offbeat08 Jun 2021 | 50
American Express loses bid to toss out lawsuit claiming it copied Spanish startup's flight booking software Claims of ignoring NDA will be tried by High Court, rules judge Software28 May 2021 | 5
Apple sent my data to the FBI, says boss of controversial research paper trove Sci-Hub Former Sun boss Scott McNealy offers interesting response Security17 May 2021 | 74
Exam-monitoring biz Proctorio tried to silence a critic using copyright law. Now EFF sues to put an end to this tactic Tweets linking to source code were fair use, say digital-rights warriors Applications22 Apr 2021 | 17
Right-to-repair warriors seek broader DMCA exemptions to bypass digital locks on the stuff we own Analysis Every three years, people try to patch a poorly crafted copyright law Personal Tech15 Dec 2020 | 36
Remember so-not-a-pirate Kim Dotcom? New Zealand’s highest court has just said the USA can extradite him for copyright naughtiness But first, he gets a judicial review and chance to extend eight-year legal saga SaaS04 Nov 2020 | 15
GitHub warns devs face ban if they fork DMCA'd YouTube download tool... while hinting how to beat the RIAA No, no, no, you hit it like this *whack* Software03 Nov 2020 | 63
No, your software ideas aren't copyrightable, US judge tells SAS amid its long-running feud with Brit outfit console.log("go away and don't come back"); Software02 Nov 2020 | 17
Trump's Make Space Great Again video pulled after former 'naut says: Nope How may I infringe thee? Let me count the ways... Bootnotes05 Jun 2020 | 104
Publishers sue to shut down books-for-all Internet Archive for 'willful digital piracy on an industrial scale' Updated Copyright infringement claim 'not in anyone’s interest' responds org Personal Tech01 Jun 2020 | 76
You overstepped and infringed British sovereignty, Court of Appeal tells US in software companies' copyright battle Angry judgments fly as SAS and World Programming spat rolls on Software14 May 2020 | 59
Internet Archive justifies its vast 'copyright infringing' National Emergency Library of 1.4 million books by pointing out that libraries are closed Authors, publishers unimpressed Personal Tech01 Apr 2020 | 66
Internet Archive opens National Emergency Library with unlimited lending of 1.4m books for stuck-at-home netizens amid virus pandemic Global crisis necessitates extreme copyright flexibility, educators insist Personal Tech24 Mar 2020 | 33
Oracle and Google will fight in court over Java AGAIN and this time it's going to the Supremes The case that just won't die Software15 Nov 2019 | 87
We read the Brexit copyright notices so you don't have to… No more IP freely, ta very much Buried on Friday PM, just before pub o'clock Legal21 Oct 2019 | 160
Google lashes out at DoJ, Oracle as it asks US Supremes to sniff Java suit one last time It's like reinventing the steering wheel... so they say Legal18 Oct 2019 | 46
Outraged Virgin slaps IP trolls over dirty movie download data demands This is a lawsuit, you filthy-minded people Legal30 Jul 2019 | 44
British ISPs throw in the towel, give up sending out toothless copyright infringement warnings What a waste of time and money that was Personal Tech20 Jul 2019 | 146
Usenet file-swapping was acceptable in the '80s – but not so much now: Pirate pair sent down for 66 months Yep, Usenet is still around Legal12 Jul 2019 | 44
Prenda Law boss John Steele to miss 2020 Olympics... unless they show it in prison Lawyer in the cooler for five years for operating notorious smut piracy honeypot scam Personal Tech09 Jul 2019 | 18
Stiff penalty: Prenda Law copyright troll gets 14 years of hard time for blue view 'n sue scam That's a wrap for the file-sharing skin flick shakedown Personal Tech14 Jun 2019 | 70
Starz, meet the Streisand Effect. Cable telly giant apologizes for demented DMCA Twitter takedown spree Inadvertently highlights easy abuse of IP protection Personal Tech15 Apr 2019 | 57
Article 13 reasons why... we agree with EU, nods Britain at Council of Ministers About the Copyright Directive (why, what did you think we meant?) Legal15 Apr 2019 | 35
Make America Infringe Again: Trump campaign video pulled over Batman copyright Presidential 2020 ad nicks Dark Knight Rises soundtrack Bootnotes10 Apr 2019 | 51
OK, Google? Probably not! EU settles on wording for copyright reform legislation Commission fumes at 'fake' campaign Legal14 Feb 2019 | 81
Lovely website you got there. Would be a shame if we, er, someone were to sink it: Google warns EU link tax will magnify media monetary misery Let us copy your snippets, or say goodbye to revenue Personal Tech08 Feb 2019 | 93
Looming EU copyright rules – tackling Google news article scraping, installing upload filters – under fire from all sides Analysis The question now is: Will it move forward or not? Legal21 Jan 2019 | 75
Rimini and Oracle's legal eagles return to the ring in front of Supreme Court Top US justices hear oral arguments in copyright battle SaaS15 Jan 2019 | 3
Cheeky cheesemaker fails to copyright how things taste On yer bike, CJEU tells Dutch dairy dealer Legal13 Nov 2018 | 48
Supremes agree to hear Rimini Street's bid to claw back costs in Oracle copyright battle Top US court will resolve circuit courts' split over non-taxable costs Software27 Sep 2018 |
Article 13 pits Big Tech and bots against European creatives Updated - Special Report It's all about YouTube Legal12 Sep 2018 | 57
No do-overs! Appeals court won’t hear $8.8bn Oracle v Google rehash Only thing left now is a Supreme Court bid in row over Android and Java copyright Software28 Aug 2018 | 76
As porn site pounds hard on piracy laws, Cox pulls out prematurely Analysis Time for the internet to grow up? Critical US DMCA safe harbor rules in the spotlight Legal24 Aug 2018 | 37
Texas ISP slams music biz for trying to turn it into a 'copyright cop' Grande Comms tells US court it's swamped with fake takedowns Personal Tech21 Aug 2018 | 62
Prenda lawyer pleads guilty to moneyshot honeypot scheme Smut-slinging copyright troll cops to fraud and money laundering charges Personal Tech20 Aug 2018 | 36
Top Euro court: No, you can't steal images from other websites (too bad a school had to be sued to confirm this little fact) Seems obvious but this case is messier than you'd imagine Legal08 Aug 2018 | 223
Arista cats cough up $400m furball to satisfy Cisco in legal war truce Just one appeal left standing Networks06 Aug 2018 |
Here we go again: Monopoly case another round in Arista vs Cisco Take heart, readers, this can't go on forever ... can it? Networks03 Aug 2018 | 5
European Parliament balks at copyright law reform vote Pirates: We saved the internet! Legal05 Jul 2018 | 47
Euro privacy watchdog raises eyebrows at mulled EU copyright law Warns that wording needs to be 'as precise and clear as possible' Legal04 Jul 2018 | 14
Call your MEP! Wikipedia blacks out for European YouTube vote We'll tell you what to say Legal03 Jul 2018 | 39
Infamous 'Dancing Baby' copyright battle settled just before YouTube tot becomes a teen Vid Decade of legal wrangling leaves unresolved issue behind Legal27 Jun 2018 | 25
Amid 'idiotic blockchain phase,' EY and Microsoft tout smart contracts Blockchain might actually prove helpful for a change Science22 Jun 2018 | 10
JURI's out, Euro copyright votes in: Whoa, did the EU just 'break the internet'? No, but not everyone's happy with the changes On-Prem20 Jun 2018 | 94
UN's freedom of expression top dog slams European copyright plans Rapporteur David Kaye not impressed with Article 13 Legal16 Jun 2018 | 31
Trademark holders must pay for UK web blocking orders – Supreme Court Top judges say ISPs – but not webhosts or caches – can pass the buck Legal13 Jun 2018 | 30
Internet luminaries urge EU to kill off automated copyright filter proposal Article 13 goes too far, argue Cerf, Berners-Lee et al Legal12 Jun 2018 | 47
Word on the street: Rimini takes Oracle copyright battle to US Supremes Complains costs were 17% higher cos of where case was heard Software06 Jun 2018 | 1
US Congress mulls expanding copyright yet again – to 144 years Literally the 12th time corporate revenue put ahead of society and culture Legal18 May 2018 | 196