Copyright Protection
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IMS success hinges on various factors
News Industry watchers say issues such as handset compatibility, copyright infringement, interoperability and pricing, need to be resolved first.
Tags: Mobile/Wireless, VoIP/IP telephony, Multimedia, Video, Business development/management, Product development and design, Next-generation technology/networks
Debunking top 3 Creative Commons myths
News With the rise of user-generated content online on blogs and photo sharing sites, two lawyers help demystify commonly-held myths surrounding user copyrights.
Tags: Copyright, Web 2.0, Business, Creative Commons, India, Philippines, Open Source, Work, Japan, intellectual property
Global music industry to ID Napster fans
News The music industry is developing software that will automatically detect people who are illegally swapping songs over the Internet--and it is prepared to pass the information on to the police.
Napster battle shifts to Capitol Hill
News Although members of Congress emphasize the need to examine the thorny issue of intellectual property on the Internet, some caution that action may not occur anytime soon.
Protesters declare war on copyright law
News Supporters backing Dmitry Sklyarov, the Russian programmer accused of five counts of copyright infringement, declared war on the Digital Millennium Copyright Act at a fund-raiser for Sklyarov's legal defense on Wednesday.
U.K. man threatened with BitTorrent lawsuit
News Movie studios serve legal papers to owner of Web site, claiming he allowed people to download copyright films.
Tags: Peer to peer
Legitimate P2P to be unclogged
News A service developed for ISPs and content distributors promises to make it easier to distribute software packages and large movie files over the Web.
Tags: Peer to peer, Web services
Napster clone pushes new, ad-based service
News A music site that has captured many estranged Napster users halts its service to offer music swappers a new, advertising-based client.
Napster clone pushes new, ad-based service
News A music site that has captured many estranged Napster users has halted its service and is offering music-swappers a new, advertising-based client.
Microsoft e-book security in doubt
News The encryption protection that stops the copying of e-books stored in Microsoft Reader formats has been broken by an anonymous programmer.
University to challenge copyright laws
News Duke University's law school receives an anonymous US$1 million gift to fund advocacy and research aimed at curtailing the recent expansion of copyright laws.
Napster battle shifts to Capitol Hill
News In the wake of a federal appeals court decision that puts Napster even further on the defensive, the next battleground over digital downloading and its related intellectual property debate could occur in Congress.
SDMI hack draws legal threats
News A music industry group is seeking to block publication of research that describes anti-piracy technology known as watermarking, saying a report stemming from an industry-backed hacking challenge violates digital copyright law.
Software patents raise hackles in Britain
News A U.K. foundation gathers testimony from British businesses and coders opposed to software patents.
At trial, Altnet-Kazaa link examined
News In the music industry's suit against Sharman, owner of P2P software Kazaa, witness testifies about role of partner Altnet.
Tags: Peer to peer
