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Google+Tim Wu, professor at Columbia Law School, has an intriguing paper available entitled, “On Copyright’s Authorship Policy”: It has long been the stated aspiration of copyright to make authors the masters of their own destiny. Yet more often than not, … Continued
copyright
Followup on digg.com, AACS, and "laws for bloggers"
In an interesting article entitled “Digg This?: What Laws Must We Obey?” at “The Faculty Blog” from the University of Chicago, a law professor not intimately involved with the DMCA and Web 2.0 writes: As to law, as Digg‘s attorneys … Continued
AACS
In an attempt to capture some of the current AACS (Advanced Access Content System, copy-restriction technology for new-format DVDs) controversy, here is some background information. The whole controversy started when someone managed to figure out what the 16-digit hexadecimal key … Continued
Judge Upholds Award of Attorneys' Fees Against RIAA
So far, the RIAA has sued over 18,000 individuals for allegedly sharing music over the Internet. But the industry uses slapdash investigative methods to find its targets, and so innocent people as well as guilty ones can find themselves entangled … Continued
