Word: copyrighting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...light of recent concern and legal threats, the University has worked to comply with present file-sharing law, which comes in the form of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 (DMCA...
...copyright owner claims an infringement occurred over the University network, the claim passes through a special agent and is investigated by network administrators at one of Harvard’s schools...
UserLand Software, of which Winer was CEO until 2002, had owned the copyright. It transferred the ownership of the specifications when it found itself in competition with other companies using the format. Being both guardian of the format and a software developer resulted in an “uncomfortable situation,” Winer said...
This isn't how it was supposed to be. A little more than three years ago the Recording Industry Association of America (R.I.A.A.), which represents most U.S. record labels, filed suit against Napster, the granddaddy of file-sharing services, for "contributory and vicarious copyright infringement." The R.I.A.A. won; Napster lost. A judge ordered its servers shut down. End of story...
...legal fight is far from a sure thing. Copyright laws are slippery and subjective--the judge in the Grokster case made a special plea in his ruling asking Congress to fix gaps in the laws that cover file sharing. Enforcing those laws is also tricky. Colleges, where a lot of the downloading goes on, like to think of themselves as bastions of privacy and free speech, not copyright police. The international reach of the Internet makes enforcement even dodgier. Case in point: in 1999 Jon Johansen, a Norwegian teenager, figured out how to break the copy protection on commercial DVDs...