This page contains all the news items for the tag "Copyright" for the month of October 2012. To view all news items without being the current tag filter, please click here.
US Copyright Office issues new, and revokes some, exemptions to current copyright laws, once again highlighting the arbitrary nature of copyright exemptions ... Read more ...
A single blog posts takes down the entire blog and 1.45 million other blogs, as "stupid DMCA policy" disables educational resource used by thousands of teachers and students ... Read more ...
A new study has found that people who pirate a lot of music are also the music industry's best customers, and that online downloading isn't as popular as getting music from friends/family or ripping CDs ... Read more ...
U.S. District Judge rules against Megaupload's motion to dismiss the criminal case against the file hosting website, as founder Kim Dotcom plans "comeback" with a new Mega website that is "90% done" ... Read more ...
UK copyright lobby group has eyes on potential piracy activity on future 4G networks, as it calls on regulators to includes wireless networks, perhaps even public Wi-Fi networks, its in anti-piracy regime ... Read more ...
Attorney General Eric Holder reveals DoJ program that saw foreign judges, prosecutors, investigators, and policymakers "educated" in the US's view on copyright issues ... Read more ...
New study finds that BitTorrent usage for illegal music downloads are dropping in countries with Spotify, but increasing in countries without the service - except in France, where Spotify and Hadopi still sees piracy rates rising ... Read more ...
YouTube makes changes to its sometimes controversial Content ID program, in a bid to avoid the number of "unintentional claims" and to provide uploaders with a better appeals process ... Read more ...
From the start of this month, Japanese downloaders will face fines of up to $25,000 and a two year prison sentence thanks to new changes to the country's copyright laws ... Read more ...
Google bans account of author distributing his own free book on piracy grounds, just because he linked to a torrent of his own book on The Pirate Bay, Demonoid ... Read more ...