copyright law

    I have been told to blog about Senator Josh Hawley’s new copyright bill, and I do this with nothing but the greatest reluctance. Normally, I love talking about copyright! I’ll talk about copyright all day long! [Ed note: And she does.] But writing this po...

    Illegal streaming could be particularly costly in Malaysia. TorrentFreak reports the country has passed amendments to its Copyright Act that punish those who enable pirate streaming. People who offer streaming services and devices that “prejudi...

    Illegal streaming could be particularly costly in Malaysia. TorrentFreak reports the country has passed amendments to its Copyright Act that punish those who enable pirate streaming. People who offer streaming services and devices that “prejudi...

    Image: the-lightwriter, Getty Images/iStockphotoData archivists who operate a coalition called the Software Preservation Network are working on new projects in 2018, including a legal effort to work with rather than against software anti-piracy organ...

    Roblox and the National Music Publishers Association today announced an agreement that settles any previous claims against Roblox and sets the foundation for future partnerships with global publishers that will unlock new creative and commercial oppo...

    Image: RobloxVirtual world-building platform Roblox has settled a lawsuit with the National Music Publishers’ Association (NMPA) and is negotiating potential deals with individual music publishers. Roblox announced the news this morning, saying it w...

    A few weeks ago a copy of version 4.5 of Sony's PS4 software development kit (SDK) leaked on to the Internet. This shouldn't happen as Sony only distributes the SDK to developers, but it did, and it has put the company on high alert. Public acce...

    In just six months, David Simon bolted from obscurity to notoriety. He captured front-page newspaper headlines and was interviewed by several radio stations. He was also sued for $10 million by Disney, Fox, MGM, and Paramount, among other top enterta...

    Stay on top of the latest tech news with our free IT News Digest e-newsletter, delivered each weekday. Automatically sign up today!ByDeclan McCullaghCNET News.comThe copyright cold war between Hollywood and Silicon Valley is about to heat up.Skirmish...

    Rex ShutterstockA large group of prominent European filmmakers is using the Venice Film Festival as a platform to launch an impassioned appeal to the European Parliament concerning an upcoming vote on key legislation that would give them a bigger pie...

    Stay on top of the latest tech news with our free IT News Digest newsletter, delivered each weekday. Automatically sign up today!ByDeclan McCullaghStaff Writer, CNET News.com A group of large software companies has taken the first step toward incitin...

    Cultura/REX/ShutterstockThe European Commission, the European Union’s executive body, has approved a long-gestating major reform to copyright law, which had already been passed by the European Parliament last month.The overhaul contains two con...

    Viacom, the media company that owns the Comedy Central and MTV channels, is suing Google and its recently acquired internet video-sharing site YouTube for more than 1 billion in the biggest challenge yet to the web search leader’s strategy to d...

    The UK’s soccer Premier League and music publisher Bourne & Co say eight more parties have joined their lawsuit accusing YouTube and its parent company Google of deliberately encouraging copyright infringement.The new parties include the N...

    Image: the-lightwriter, Getty Images/iStockphotoData archivists who operate a coalition called the Software Preservation Network are working on new projects in 2018, including a legal effort to work with rather than against software anti-piracy organ...

    The European Court of Justice ruled that a media player with pre-installed add-ons, accessed through structured menus, grants users “direct access to the protected works published without the permission of the copyright owners” and “must be reg...