Word: copyright
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...ACLU’s 26-page brief, filed in federal lawsuit Edelman v. N2H2, details the claims of Benjamin G. Edelman ’02 that his First Amendment freedom to research Internet filtering software trumps restrictions of copyright law, trade secret law, the End User License Agreement (EULA), and most prominently, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA...
...case has the potential to redefine national interpretation of the controversial DMCA. To date, its prohibition against the “circumvention of copyright protection systems” has been universally upheld by federal judges...
Harvard’s student-run radio station, WHRB, and hundreds of other college not-for-profit radio stations may be forced to stop wireless web streaming altogether if they are not exempt from the charges. Although the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act established the principle that the web was not exempt from royalty fees, it was only earlier this year that the Library of Congress Copyright Division set the actual fee, at seven-hundredths of a penny per song per person. At the same time, the library mandated that royalties be paid retroactively for all songs broadcast...
...copyright act stimulated a large appeal by radio stations, as well as a website built to protest it. The site lists a number of stations affected by the bill, including WHRB. It also encourages people to write their members of Congress and complain that a new bill attempting to compromise on the royalty issue was “negotiated and agreed upon without educational and community station input...
...February 2002, an arbitration panel decided that the fee would be 0.07 of a penny per song, per person. In July, the Library of Congress’ copyright office ruled in favor of it. Currently, the decision is on appeal in the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit...