Category Law

Music Forecast: Even Cloudier

Will the major record companies sue Google and Amazon over unlicensed music services? What exactly are the features that they could complain about?

Copyright and Technology 2011 Conference: Crowdsourcing the Program

Send us your ideas for panels about legal issues.

Google Book Settlement Rejection: A Missed Opportunity

The Book Rights Registry now looks like a lost cause.

E-Book Lending: The Serpent in the Garden of Eden

Is HarperCollins heralding the slow, painful death of library e-book lending?

Are Libraries Locked Out of the E-book World?

Are there market or legal alternatives to the Kindle for library e-book lending?

Taking Pictures of Magazine Articles in a Bookstore: A Conundrum

The New York Times’s Nick Bilton wonders whether taking digital photographs of magazine articles in a bookstore is copyright infringement. But what about the Times’s act of publishing the article?

Google’s Baby Steps on Copyright

Google announces new copyright tools on the eve of Viacom’s legal appeal against it.

Odds and Ends

Everyone has to have a music blog, right?

ACTA One, ACTA Two, ACTA Three…

The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement continues to evolve.

The End of Two File-Sharing Services: LimeWire and Choruss

LimeWire is enjoined in federal court, while Jim Griffin’s Choruss can’t get music licenses.