All Articles Tagged Copyright

Julie Jacobson | 11/21 09:00 AM,

Grooveshark is one of the up-and-comers in the streaming music business, but the company is in hot water for allegedly posting pirated music to its online service. Last week, Universal Music Group filed a copyright-infringement lawsuit claiming that Grooveshark leaders conspired to post more than 100,000 pirated songs to the music service, CNET reports. The accusations are not the first for Grooveshark, which had its mobile app removed from the Android Market earlier this year for alleged copyright infringement of multiple labels. (Interestingly, Android purveyor Google advertises on the Grooveshark… View this story

Julie Jacobson | 07/26 09:26 AM, 1 Comment

It is true that we have been granted more fair-use privileges for copy-protected work. Unfortunately, you won't care much about those privileges unless you're a videogame troubleshooter or movie reviewer. Librarian of Congress James H. Billington today issued his tri-annual ruling on the circumvention of access-control technologies. Billington is the guy who examines DMCA Section 1201 to determine “whether the prohibition on circumvention of technological measures that control access to copyrighted works is causing or is likely to cause adverse effects on the ability of users of any particular classes… View this story