EFF has updated its annual(ish) white paper, "Unintended Consequences: ___ Years Under the DMCA" (currently standing at 12 years). This is one of EFF's most compelling pieces of policy writing, a huge, well-organized and tightly argued indictment of the ...

feed item - whytewolf - 03/03/2010 - 13:44 - 0 comments

We had discussed earlier this year just how damages should be figured out (and if they should be available at all) for bogus DMCA takedowns. The law, technically, says that there can be punishment, but it's rare to see a case ever get that far. In ...

feed item - whytewolf - 03/03/2010 - 03:22 - 0 comments

Nearly a year ago, we wrote about how a YouTube presentation done by well known law professor (and strong believer in fair use and fixing copyright law), Larry Lessig, had been taken down , because his video, in explaining copyright and fair use and ...

feed item - whytewolf - 03/02/2010 - 05:26 - 0 comments

Last year we noted that while it was amusing to see a lawsuit from someone angry that they had to pay to downgrade from Vista to XP on their computer, it was hard to see how it was an antitrust violation, as the lawsuit was alleging. As we ...

feed item - whytewolf - 03/01/2010 - 18:59 - 0 comments

Michael Geist sez, On the heels of the leak of various country positions on ACTA transparency, today an even bigger leak has hit the Internet. A new European Union document prepared several weeks ago canvasses the Internet and Civil Enforcement ...

feed item - whytewolf - 03/01/2010 - 13:54 - 0 comments

You may recall late last year we wrote about how Yahoo got upset about the security website Cryptome publishing their "surveillance guide," which details the process (and prices) for law enforcement to request information from Yahoo. Yahoo got upset and ...

feed item - whytewolf - 02/25/2010 - 08:50 - 0 comments

Reports spread this weekend that the ACTA's all-important internet enforcement chapter had leaked . You can download the PDF from that link, or check it out below: From here, you can see why this is still quite a dangerous ...

feed item - whytewolf - 02/22/2010 - 12:40 - 0 comments

Someone has uploaded a PDF to a Google Group that is claimed to be the proposal for Internet copyright enforcement that the USA has put forward for ACTA, the secret copyright treaty whose seventh round of negotiations just concluded in Guadalajara, ...

feed item - whytewolf - 02/21/2010 - 12:50 - 0 comments

Last week, we wrote twice about the Google music blog mess, which caused many people to falsely attack Google for its policies in dealing with takedown notices. While it is true that Google could do a better job in communicating and potentially in ...

feed item - whytewolf - 02/17/2010 - 07:02 - 0 comments

Last week, several high-profile, much-loved music blogs disappeared from Google's Blogspot service, after they were targetted by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI -- the international version of the RIAA). IFPI ...

feed item - whytewolf - 02/16/2010 - 23:26 - 0 comments