Hezbollah sting bust sees first phone-unlock DMCA conviction: “ Mass terrorist jailbreaking not same as fanboi freedom A Philadelphia federal court has accepted a guilty plea from one Mohamad Majed, who admitted breaching the Digital…
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Summary judgment confirms ‘safe harbour’ protection for YouTube | Pinsent Masons LLP OUT-LAW News, 24/06/2010 YouTube is protected by the safe harbour provisions of US copyright law and is not guilty of copyright infringement when…
Web hosts face payout as jury says they should have known about customers’ infringement: “Two web hosting companies have been ordered to pay $32 million in damages after failing to convince a US jury that…
Amazon using DMCA to restrict Kindle content sources: “ Oh, Amazon. Just a couple weeks after the Authors Guild’s overzealous copyright-maximalist stance forced the bookseller to modify the Kindle 2’s text to speech feature, the…
Mozilla, Skype support DMCA jailbreaking exemption: “The Mozilla Corporation and Skype Communications have both filed papers in support of a proposed DMCA exemption for the jailbreaking of smartphones. (Via Macworld.)
The updated EFF report entitled Unintended Consequences: Ten Years Under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act which assesses the problematic application of the notice & takedown provisions of the US legislation is definitely worth reading. [Yaman…
(Via Techdirt.) The Web Thrived In Spite Of The DMCA, Not Because Of It: “While I was pointing out all of the reasons why the DMCA needs to be re-examined from scratch, Wired has put…