Author Archives: Bill Rosenblatt

UK ISPs to Implement “Educational” Graduated Response System

Does a system for monitoring ISP users’ illegal downloads need to be punitive to be effective?

Announcing Copyright and Technology London 2014

Now in our fifth year, the next Copyright and Technology conference will take place on Wednesday, October 1.

Rights Management (The Other Kind) Workshop, NYC, April 30

A half-day tutorial on rights information management.

MP3Tunes and the New DMCA Boundaries

A federal district judge reopens an old case; courts start to limn the boundaries of “willful blindness” in qualifying for the DMCA safe harbor. Meanwhile, Michael Robertson’s latest provocative startup involves Internet radio.

Disney and Apple’s UV FUD

Disney Movies Anywhere brings competition to the video rights locker market.

Viacom vs. YouTube: Not With a Bang, But a Whimper

One theory about why Viacom settled its long-running litigation.

Getty Images Competes with Free (and Easy)

Getty Images gives up direct revenue from bloggers in favor of big data for analytics.

In Copyright Law, 200 Is a Magic Number

What makes a work of visual art special? The fact that there can’t be more than 200 copies of it.

Adobe Resurrects E-Book DRM… Again

Adobe’s new ACS5/RMSDK10 combination adds tighter security as well as support for subscriptions and other content models.

National Academies Calls for Hard Data on Digital Copyright

The new booklet Copyright in the Digital Era should be required reading for everyone involved in copyright policy.