Entries tagged with “dmca” from O'Reilly Digital Media Blog

Anton Chuvakin just linked to this “nerd version of an Agatha Christie novel” in his security blog, but this detective tale about Sony's dangerously sloppy CD-protection software has profound implications for music.

Reps. Zoe Lofgren and Rick Boucher issued a press release yesterday calling on Congress to fix DMCA, in light of information that doing so would not put the US in treaty violation.

The first ETech tutorial Laws and Emerging Technology put a number of current legal issues on the table for Emergent Tech geeks to consider. Fred von Lohman and Rajiv Patel help sort out the pertinent issues.

A federal judge ordered Verizon to disclose to the RIAA the identity of a KaZaa users accused of serving up a shocking 600 music files. Courtesy of the DMCA.

The Post reports today that two major tech industry associations are ready to enter an alliance with the recording industry to oppose the infamous Hollings bill.

I've started a blog to capture developments related to DMCA, copyright, patents/open source, etc. I call it public.net because it's about the Net as a public resource. Input, etc: rkoman@attbi.com.

Today, I got a press release from FatWallet's lawyers, announcing that Wal-Mart has dropped the demand for a name, and that FatWallet was asking for damages for Wal-Mart's knowingly false invocation of DMCA.

If you accept Jack Valenti's arguments, you believe that no creative work will ever be produced in this country unless copyright protection is a couple of generations long. But not even Jack would argue that a bunch of post-turkey sale information constitutes "creative expression."

Lawrence Lessig kicked off this year's O'Reilly Open Source Conference with a question for technologists everywhere. As we quickly hand over our rights and freedoms under the guise of Copyright Law, "what have you done?"

Interesting copyright developments: There are attempts to create a new type of intellectual property right for proprietary collections of facts, (including recombinations of public domain data). Up until now, a partial recombination of public or private facts into a new database was generally not restricted.

321 Studios has filed a complaint against the movie studios in a defensive measure that challenges the constitutionality of the DMCA.

EFF won't appeal a recent loss in the case brought by Professor Edward Felten against the Digital Millenium Copyright Act. The government promised in court documents that "scientists attempting to study access control technologies" are not subject to the DMCA. Felten and EFF decided to take them at their word.

At least one lawmaker has decided to not turn a blind eye to the Audio Home Recording Act, throwing a big wrench in the music industries plan for all CD's to be copy-protected.