Johansen verdict appealed by Norwegian prosecutors
Norwegian government prosecutors today submitted an appeal of the case against Jon Johansen, a teenager who again faces criminal charges for helping to write and...
ASCAP president issues Statement On U.S. supreme court decision upholding 1998 Copyright extension act
In response to this morning's decision by the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the 1998 Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act (CTEA), which extended copyright protection...
Recording, Technology industries reach groundbreaking agreement on approach to digital content issues...
Representatives of the recording and technology industries today announced that they have reached agreement on a core set of principles to guide their public policy...
Music, Tech groups ok copyright plans
The leading trade associations for the music and technology industries, which have been at loggerheads over consumers downloading songs on the Internet, have negotiated a...
Copy protection is crossing boundaries
Anti-copying software designed to protect multiple music and video formats on different devices has been released by video streaming company Real Networks... Digital rights management...
Lawmakers urge protection of fair use digital media consumers' rights act re-introduced
Initiating what is certain to be a contentious debate during the 108th Congress, U.S. Representatives Rick Boucher (D-VA), John Doolittle (R-CA), Spencer Bachus (R-AL) and...
Pirates capture MGM's 'Monk'
In what is probably one of the worst security breaches of a film's copyright yet seen in Asia, pirated DVDs of MGM's "Bulletproof Monk" have...
Norwegian Teenager Jon Johansen acquitted in DVD Case - Legal to descramble his DVDs on Linux computer in Norway!
A Norwegian criminal court today acquitted Jon Johannsen, a Norwegian teenager who faced criminal charges for helping to write and publish a DVD descrambling program...
Hollywood ready to close digital locks
Lying dormant in virtually every digital cable box in America is technology that can prevent viewers from recording certain programs to watch them later. Soon,...
US supreme court says Hollywood can't sue Texas resident!
The U.S. Supreme Court today reversed an earlier temporary hold on a case involving DVD descrambling. The U.S. Supreme Court upheld a California Supreme Court...
