In an open letter to the Office and Management and Budget’s Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator, Google announced today that it opposes the practice of removing entire sites from search re
Google today launched a new feature in the YouTube Audio Library that allows uploaders who use copyrighted music to see exactly what will happen to their videos before they upload them.
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Last year, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.gettyimages.com">Getty Images</a> began to double down on how it could better control and ultimately make money from its library of 150 million of pictur
<a target="_blank" href="http://www.vk.com">Vkontakte</a>, a social networking site known as the "Facebook of Russia", is facing legal action from nine music labels including EMI, Sony and Warner over
In a move that should give Twilight slash-fic writers pause, the Swedish copyright enforcement agency, called Intrångsundersökning, raided and seized the servers of Undertexter.se, a fansub site ded
Kim Dotcom and his legal team are seizing the moment of a <a target="_blank" href="http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2013/May/13-ag-506.html">meeting</a> of attorneys general from the U.S., UK, Canada, Au
<a target="_blank" href="http://torrentfreak.com/fox-censors-cory-doctorows-homeland-novel-from-google-130420/">TorrentFreak is reporting</a> that links to Cory Doctorow's book, <a target="_blank" hre
Paul (not his real name) has never seen the movie <a target="_blank" href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1535616/">The Divide</a>. He's a horror buff and sometimes tries to find odd and decidedly bad fl
According to InsideSocialGames, Zynga and EA have settled their legal dispute over the former’s alleged copying of EA’s popular game “The Sims.” It was clear to many that once
The <a target="_blank" href="www.eff.org">Electronic Frontier Foundation</a> (EFF) is <a target="_blank" href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/11/no-copyrights-apis-help-us-make-case">asking for he
Another loss for Apple in the courts: a Dutch court in the Hague has ruled Samsung does not infringe an Apple multitouch patent, Reuters is reporting. Apple had argued last month in the court that Sam
YouTube today <a target="_blank" href="http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/2012/10/improving-content-id.html">announced</a> that it is making some important changes to its appeals process for users who
Craigslist may have a peace sign as part of its logo, but the war over its data continues. As TechCrunch <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2012/09/23/3taps-is-planning-to-file-a-countersuit-against-crai
The legal fight between mega-listings site <a target="_blank" href="http://www.craigslist.org">Craigslist</a> and third parties that have used its data in their own applications looks like it is takin
With the launch of iOS 6, Apple finally brought a clock app to the iPad. Now, however, the design of the clocks in the app has become somewhat of a controversy as Swiss Federal Railways (mostly known
Here's an example of awesome technology working, but potentially at the wrong time. The Salesforce/Dreamforce keynote was interrupted during its Ustream streaming due to copyright protection.
Google just <a target="_blank" href="http://insidesearch.blogspot.com/2012/08/an-update-to-our-search-algorithms.html">announced</a> that, starting next week, its search algorithm will start taking a
A big day today for those who have been opposed to measures like <a href="https://techcrunch.com/tag/sopa/">SOPA</a> that are aimed at stronger, government-imposed measures to define and prevent count
Pinterest is growing up fast: just days ago the image-based social network rolled out redesigned profile pages, and now it's following that up with an updated Terms of Service, Acceptable Use Policy a
Pinterest has had trouble brewing for a while over what some people say are frequent copyright violations that happen when users 'pin' photos on the site without permission from the photo's owner. But
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