Category Law

C&T 2010: New Speakers for Legal Panel

Expertise on Progressive Response on hand at Copyright and Technology 2010.

LimeWire Turns to Court of Public Opinion

LimeWire CEO Mark Gorton goes into damage control mode.

LimeWire Found Liable for Infringement

The first use of the inducement theory of copyright liability since the Supreme Court established it five years ago.

William Patry’s War on Copyright

Moral Panics and the Copyright Wars is about as balanced as the federal deficit.

UK Digital Economy Bill Becomes Law

The law favors content rights holders, but its path to implementation is ambiguous.

ACTA Process to Go Public

The secretive negotiating process will continue at least somewhat out in the open, and “graduated response” provisions will go away.

Japan Is an Island (in Online News)

An interesting article in today’s New York Times discusses the decision of Nikkei, Japan’s leading financial newspaper, to forbid external links to its new website, which requires paid subscription to access.  Apparently anyone who puts links to Nikkei online articles on their own websites without permission could face legal action. This restriction is not limited […]

Announcing C&T 2010 Conference Sponsors

Adobe, Civolution, and iPharro will sponsor the Copyright and Technology 2010 conference in June; earlybird registration ends next week.

Widevine and Verimatrix Settle Patent Litigation

Reduction of IP risk in the content protection technology market is always a good thing.

ACTA Acts Behind Closed Doors

An international treaty with potentially profound implications for copyright and technology, which may bypass national and even regional deliberative processes.