IT & Telecoms

08/06/10 An amendment to the Copyright Act that grants copyright protection to various foreign works that were previously in the public domain in the United States is not violative of the First Amendment, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit ruled.

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Viacom: YouTube Ruling Will 'Completely Destroy' Copyright

12/03/10 Viacom appealed Friday its unsuccessful $1 billion copyright lawsuit against Google's YouTube in a case testing the depths of copyright-infringement protection under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998. Viacom told the New York-based 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals if the lower decision stands "it would radically transform the functioning of the copyright system and severely impair ...

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Son of ACTA: meet the next secret copyright treaty

03/11/11 So many countries in need of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, so little time! The US government, still trying to secure final passage for the drafted-in-secret Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), has already turned its attention to a new multilateral trade agreement that will bring the wonders of the DMCA to countries like Australia, Brunei, Chile, Singapore, Malaysia, and Vietnam ...

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