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
15 Dec 2020
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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
04 Nov 2020
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*
03 Nov 2020
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");
02 Nov 2020
Trump's Make Space Great Again video pulled after former 'naut says: Nope
How may I infringe thee? Let me count the ways...
05 Jun 2020
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
01 Jun 2020
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
14 May 2020
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
01 Apr 2020
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
24 Mar 2020
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
15 Nov 2019
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
21 Oct 2019
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
18 Oct 2019
Outraged Virgin slaps IP trolls over dirty movie download data demands
This is a lawsuit, you filthy-minded people
30 Jul 2019
British ISPs throw in the towel, give up sending out toothless copyright infringement warnings
What a waste of time and money that was
20 Jul 2019
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
12 Jul 2019
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
09 Jul 2019
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
14 Jun 2019
Starz, meet the Streisand Effect. Cable telly giant apologizes for demented DMCA Twitter takedown spree
Inadvertently highlights easy abuse of IP protection
15 Apr 2019
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