USAToday.com reports on new copyright protection products that debut at 10 colleges this fall, in the form of CDs, DVDs and even a USB drive, that limit the creation of multiple copies of course materials. Continue Reading
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Category Archives: Digital Rights
Resources on Copyright and Licensing for Digital Materials
Via this excellent Resource Page on Copyright and Licensing Digital Materials by Therese A. Clarke Arado, a link to Lolly Gasaway’s PowerPoint presentation, Copyright Permissions for Multimedia, from the AALL 2005 annual conference. Continue Reading
OECD Report on Digital Music
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Project on Digital Broadband Content published a new Report on Digital Music: Opportunities and challenges (132 pages, PDF): “…the outlook for the music market in 2005 is positive due to rapidly increasing sales of (mobile) digital music services. Digital music is also a driver for the global… Continue Reading
Victory For Groups Opposed to Broadcast Flag
From the EFF, Federal Appeals Court Scraps FCC’s Broadcast Flag Mandate Legal documents are here, background information is here. Court yanks down FCC’s broadcast flag Continue Reading
Hearing on Digital Music and Interoperability
Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property Oversight Hearing on Digital Music Interoperability and Availability, April 6, 2005. Link to Chairman’s Statement and Witness Statements Continue Reading
House Hearing on Digital Copyright
Hearing today: H.R. 107, The Digital Media Consumers’ Rights Act of 2003, Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade, and Consumer Protection. Witness List & Prepared Testimony From testimony by Prof. Lawrence Lessig, Stanford Law School: “A poorly crafted copyright law – a law that either creates too much uncertainty, or a law that extends its reach beyond… Continue Reading
Ownership of “Information” In the Digital Environment
Information Cannot Be Owned by Jean Nicholas Druey, April 2004: “Apart from technology, the information age has up to now badly served its idol. It has failed sufficiently to recognize specific features of information. This is shown with respect to the question whether legal rights on information can take the form of ownership. The answer… Continue Reading
Review of Digital Rights Management
Discussion led by Frederic Haber, General Counsel for the Copyright Clearance Center, on Digital Rights Management. Continue Reading
New Report on DMCA
From the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF): Unintended Consequences: Five Years under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Continue Reading
New Bill on Digital Rights Management
On September 16, Sen. Sam Brownback introduced the Consumers, Schools, and Libraries Digital Rights Management Act of 2003. From his press release: “This legislation responds directly to ongoing litigation between the Recording Industry Association of America and Internet service providers Verizon and SBC Communications. This litigation has opened wide all identifying information an ISP maintains… Continue Reading
Software Consumer Bill of Rights
Cem Kaner, Professor, Department of Computer Sciences, Florida Institute of Technology, posted on his blog the text of ten suggested principles that comprise a “Software Customer Bill of Rights” which he authored in an effort to “restore integrity and trust — and consumer confidence, consumer excitement, and sales – in this stalled marketplace.” Continue Reading
