Dec 23
Given the United States’ intolerance for copyright infringement
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Dec 11
In the US, when Google began its plan to digitize a huge number of books with its massive scanning program, authors in the US filed suit and mired the program in legal proceedings for a long time. While book digitizing in the US in uncertain at this point, the country of Norway is set to […]
Nov 26
This summer, Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm Warg was sentenced to jail in Sweden after being sent there from Cambodia, where he was arrested after having received a sentence back in 2009 that ultimately resulted in a multi-million fine. Warg was sentenced in Sweden over a separate hacking charge, and now faces additional woes as […]
Nov 23
Twitter posts pull in a king’s ransom in copyright damages for photojournalist
Posted in: Today's ChiliFreelance photojournalist Daniel Morel was awarded $1.2 million yesterday when a US federal jury found two large media companies guilty of copyright infringement. Agence France-Presse and Getty Images had swiped his photographs of the 2010 Haiti earthquake and distributed them to news outlets around the world. Guess where they swiped them from! Morel was present […]
Nov 21
A few months ago, we told you the story of Oliver Hotham
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Nov 14
Nearly a decade after it started, the lawsuit between the Authors’ Guild and Google over its book-scanning program has been thrown out. This means that Google can keep digitizing millions of books for free distribution, and more importantly, that fair use is in the public’s best interest.
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Nov 14
Forget extra cup holders or power windows: the new Renault Zoe comes with a "feature" that absolutely nobody wants. Instead of selling consumers a complete car that they can use, repair, and upgrade as they see fit, Renault has opted to lock purchasers into a rental contract with a battery manufacturer and enforce that contract with digital rights management (DRM)restrictions that can remotely prevent the battery from charging at all.
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Oct 11
Rockstar Games hit with cease-and-desist over allegations of song theft in GTA V
Posted in: Today's ChiliRockstar Games, though experiencing a fair bit of issues it has been working to solve, has seen widespread success with its latest game, Grand Theft Auto V. A new snag has entered into its world, however, with producer and rapper Daz Dillinger accusing the game’s maker of including two of his songs on the game’s […]
Sep 27
After asking Google to censor Microsoft.com, Microsoft has given Google a copyright takedown request for a Microsoft Wikipedia page. Microsoft must want to scrub all mentions of itself on the Internet or something. It’s the only sensible explanation for its vigilance!
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Sep 25
YouTube just launched a library of royalty-free songs you can use in your videos.
Posted in: Today's ChiliYouTube just launched a library of royalty-free songs you can use in your videos. The generic-but-not-bad tracks let you add some audio spice without risking a copyright-related takedown. [YouTube via Verge]
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