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
27 Jul 2021
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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
23 Jun 2021
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
08 Jun 2021
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
28 May 2021
Apple sent my data to the FBI, says boss of controversial research paper trove Sci-Hub
Former Sun boss Scott McNealy offers interesting response
17 May 2021
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
22 Apr 2021
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
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
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