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20030114

"Transmeta builds security features into Crusoe chips." ... "While improved security is the main selling point of the new technology, it can also be used to enforce digital rights management (DRM) policies. Microsoft is working on software called Palladium that it will include in future versions of Windows to prohibit unauthorized duplication of copyright material." ... "While DRM technologies appear to protect the copyright holder, they can also be used to prohibit users from making copies of movies or music they purchase for their own use. For example, media companies could sell DVDs that only work on platforms certified by the TCPA and Palladium that don't allow unauthorized copying." -By Tom Krazit -InfoWorld

20021112

Comics / Links - - "Spider-Man creator sues Marvel: Stan Lee says he’s being cheated out of movie profits." ... "The creative force behind Spider-Man, the Incredible Hulk and the X-Men filed a $10 million lawsuit Tuesday, charging his old comic book company is cheating him out of millions of dollars in movie profits." ... "Marvel has reported millions of dollars in earnings from the film but has told Lee the company has seen no “profits” as defined by their contract." -Reuters via -MSNBC
Comics / Links - - Discussion - "Stan Lee Sues Marvel Comics." -Slashdot

20021017

- "Rivals: Microsoft is up to old tricks: Without protocols, competing gadgets, software won't work as well on Windows." ... "As Microsoft awaits court approval of its landmark antitrust settlement with the government, the company has angered some competitors by tightly limiting the technical data it promised to release." ... "In order to gain access, a company would have to use Microsoft's "Passport" identity authentication system, then request and sign two forms -- one of them promising secrecy -- just to see the license terms and find how much Microsoft is charging for the information." -AP via -CNN

20020731

"Senate Rejects Medicare Drug Plan, OKs Generics." ... The generics bill "passed with a bipartisan landslide 78-21 [Senate] vote." ... "The House however has not yet taken up legislation on generic drugs, fiercely opposed by the influential brand-name pharmaceutical companies, but a strong Senate vote can sometimes create momentum in the House." ... "The bill closes loopholes and stops abuses in drug patent law that have delayed generics' entry into the market. Critics said it will stifle innovation and research by brand-name companies, but backers said it will restore the competitive balance between the two sectors." -By Joanne Kenen -Reuters

20020727

"The Dark Side of Hacking Bill." ... "Watch as they rifle through your files, dismantle your network, and delete all those songs and movies you can't prove have a legal right to exist on your hard drive. Hope the special effects don't include the accidental destruction of your data when your computer becomes a stunt double in Hollywood's latest blockbuster attempt to protect its copyrighted material." ... ""Basically, [California's Congressman] Berman is going to legalize all of the antisocial Internet activities that we have been trying to stamp out for the last decade," said Paul McNabb, chief technical officer of security firm Argus Systems Group." (1, 2) -By Michelle Delio -Wired

20020726

Messaging - "Music Bill Is Bully on IMs." California's Democratic Congressman Howard Berman has submitted legislation that permits copyright owners to hack citizens private computers. ... "If the attack was somehow a case of mistaken identity, recourse would be difficult. Individuals would have to petition the Attorney General for a private investigation. After the initial request, the agency would have four months to look into the matter." ... "Along with making it open season on individual users, open-source programs and decentralized networks, the bill also gives a free pass to chat applications run by the very media companies that would most benefit from open-source networks being shuttered." (1, 2) -By Brad King -Wired

20020725

"Bill would allow hacking of P2P services: Media companies could thwart users from swapping files." ... "The bill would permit recording companies and other copyright holders to hack onto networks to thwart users looking to download free music, and would protect them from lawsuits from users." -Reuters via -CNN
"Deep Linking Takes Another Blow." ... "Using a search engine to locate stories on newspapers' sites violates European Union law, according to a recent ruling by judges in Munich's Upper Court." ... "The law in question is the "Database Directive," a piece of European Union legislation that grants copyright protection to database creators for "selecting and arranging" the information contained in a database, even if the creator does not hold the copyrights on the collected information." (1, 2) -By Michelle Delio -Wired

20020724

CLONING NEWS - "[European] Human cloning loophole closed." ... "The Munich-based European Patent office said it had revised the patent granted to Edinburgh University, Scotland, in December 1999 on altering animal cells following objections from 14 parties." ... ""The much-discussed 'Edinburgh' patent... no longer includes human or animal embryonic stem cells," the European Patent Office (EPO) said in a statement after three days of hearings." -CNN /Europe

20020723

"Could Hollywood hack your PC? Congress is about to consider an entertainment industry proposal that would authorize copyright holders to disable PCs used for illicit file trading." ... "Sponsored by Reps. Howard Berman, D-Calif., and Howard Coble, R-N.C., the measure would permit copyright holders to perform nearly unchecked electronic hacking if they have a "reasonable basis" to believe that piracy is taking place. Berman and Coble plan to introduce the 10-page bill this week." ... "The legislation would immunize groups such as the Motion Picture Association of America and the Recording Industry Association of America from all state and federal laws if they disable, block or otherwise impair a "publicly accessible peer-to-peer network."" -By Declan McCullagh-CNET /News
"No more JPEGs - ISO to withdraw image standard." ... "The ISO standards body will take the unprecedented step of withdrawing the JPEG image format as a formal standard if Forgent Networks, a small Texan company, continues to demand royalties on a seventeen-year old patent." -By Andrew Orlowski -TheRegister.co.uk

20020719

"JPEG Patent Claim Sparks Concern." ... "Government examiners first issued the patent, which covers a "coding system for reducing redundancy" to a San Jose, California, company called Compression Labs. The approval came more than a decade before the digital imaging technology known as JPEG reached mass-market popularity." -By Joanna Glasner -Wired

20020718

OPINION - "Fair Use advocates silenced by Big Brother." ... "Advocates trying to speak for regular Internet users were basically told to sit down and shut up during a "public" workshop on digital rights management dominated by IT heavyweights and Big Hollywood at the U.S. Department of Commerce Wednesday." ... "Brett Wynkoop of NY for Fair Use did get a comment on the record because he sat at the table with Big Hollywood and Big IT and commandeered the microphone at one point, which meeting moderator Phillip Bond, undersecretary for Technology in the U.S. Department of Commerce, later objected to. "We have a structure here," Bond said more than once when fair use advocates tried to take the floor." -By Grant Gross -NewsForge via -TheRegister.co.uk

ta.doc.gov - "Technology Administration."
DOC.gov - "U.S. Department of Commerce."
NYFairUse.org - "New Yorkers for Protecting Fair Use of Copyrighted Material."

Discussion - "Suddenly a JPEG Patent and Licensing Fee." -Slashdot

20020717

"Tech activists protest anti-copying." ... "Enthusiasts of free software disrupted a Commerce Department meeting Wednesday, insisting on their right to debate the entertainment industry over anti-copying technologies." -By Declan McCullagh [Google] -CNET /News

20020715

"Deep-Sixing the Submarine Patent: Will a pending trial curb a purportedly abusive practice?" -By Gary Stix -ScientificAmerican.com
"Patent Fight Erupts Over Gene Machine: Rival Challenges Firms on DNA Sequencer." ... "The suit takes aim at the biggest weapon in their gene-detecting arsenal: the rapid-fire, refrigerator-size machine that dissects and catalogues DNA. The device, called a sequencer, helped jump-start the effort, completed last year, to produce a complete map of the human code for life. It sells for up to $300,000." ... "Nowhere along the way, the suit alleges, did the inventors of the lucrative technology credit federal grants that nurtured their research from 1979 to 1985. The suit claims, in fact, that the government paid illegal royalties amounting to hundreds of millions of dollars for more than 4,000 sequencers it purchased for federal agencies and federally funded institutions." (1, 2, 3, 4) -By Michael Barbaro -WashingtonPost

20020621

"Webcasting Determination Announced by Librarian of Congress." from the Serious-Power dept. -By Hermit :-( -Posted 1st @ LISNews.com

20020530

"TalkSport [radio station] brings you the World Cup [soccer games played all around the world] - live from London." ... "The BBC took legal action against TalkSport after it emerged the station was covering matches to which the BBC helds the rights by watching the games on an Amsterdam hotel TV." <p> "A deal was eventually brokered, allowing the commercial radio outfit to commentate on sporting events by describing the action it sees on TV, as long as it frequently makes clear coverage is unofficial." -By Julia Day -MediaGuardian.co.uk

20020525

"Audiogalaxy hit by RIAA suit: The Recording Industry Association of America on Friday filed a copyright lawsuit against Audiogalaxy, adding another front to the industry's legal battles against post-Napster file-swapping services." -By John Borland -ZDNet>News

20020514

OPINION - ""Fair Use" Is Getting Unfair Treatment: Two recent federal court rulings in Hollywood's favor could undermine consumers' historical rights to use the content they buy." ... "Copyright law has always tried to strike a delicate balance between the rights of content creators to be compensated for their work and the rights of consumers to use what they have paid for. But the development of digital media and Big Media's attempt to completely control it have destroyed the delicate equilibrium that is copyright law." -By Stephen H. Wildstrom -BusinessWeek/Daily

20020512

"Patently Provoking a Debate: Two friends seek rights to a theoretical human-mouse ["humouse'], thought up to force limits on patenting human life." ... "For the patent office, the humouse raises some awkward issues. For 22 years, the office has granted patents on a wide array of living organisms and elements of life. Human genes have been patented. So have human cells. Patents have gone to animals made with bits of human DNA so scientists can study cancer and other diseases." -By Aaron Zitner -LAtimes

20020423

"Google's New Policy On DMCA Censorship From Xenu.net Flap." from the Linking-Round-and-Round dept. -By Hermit ;-X -Posted 1st @ LISNews.com

20020412

"After a professor took credit for a graduate student's research, Cornell found little amiss." ... "interviews with Ms. Demas [the grad student], her professors, and Cornell officials, as well as a review of hundreds of pages of court records, correspondence, and other documents, paint a stark case of academic misappropriation." -By Scott Smallwood -Chronicle/free

20020228

- "A Library as Big as the World: Brewster Kahle has the technology to assemble the ultimate archive of human knowledge. What's stopping him? Restrictive copyright laws." ... "For example, of the 10,027 books published in 1930, only 174 are still in print. Yet, while Kahle would like to publish them, the 1998 law means they now won't be available to the public until 2005." -By Heather Green -BusinessWeek/Daily
"Giuliani's Mayoral Papers Private Status Contested." from the Private-Public-Property dept. -By Hermit ;-) - Posted 1st @ LISNews.com - Comment?

20020226

"Can the World Be Copyrighted?" Discusses the World Intellectual Property Organization's (WIPO) new guidelines. (1, 2) -By Brad King -Wired

20020211

Discussion - "Networks and Studios Against PVRs." -Slashdot
"Studios Assail ReplayTV Technology Courts: Lawsuits claim the key functions of personal video recorders violate copyrights." -By Jon Healey -LAtimes

20020122

"Roy Disney Foresaw [Winnie the] Pooh Rights Disputet: A 1967 memo shows that top executives knew the ownership issue could end up in a legal tangle." -By Meg James -LAtimes

20020119

"ISU’s intellectual property policy clearly spelled out." -By Gene Lucht -IowaFarmer

20020107

"3 Stooges Heirs Retain Property Rights." -By Gina Holland -AP via -LAtimes

20020101

"Commercialization May Limit Internet." ... "As the Internet becomes more commercialized, companies are able to use the courts, trademarks and copyrights, proprietary technology and deep corporate pockets to control what Internet users do and say, threatening the openness that made the Net unique."-By Anick Jesdanun -AP via -excite / News

20011212

"Huge [global software] piracy ring raided." -BBC /News

20011129

"Appeals Court Rules in Favor of Studios in DVD Case." ... "The lower court ruling prohibited Eric Corley [a.k.a. Emmanuel Goldstein] from posting DVD descrambling software on the 2600 magazine Web site he publishes, or linking to Web sites that post it." -Reuters via - FindLaw /LegalNews

20011116(19)

"The End of the Net: In his new book, cyberlaw pioneer Lawrence Lessig argues huge corporations are ruining the Internet." Discusses the restrictive nature of copyright and the loss of privacy since Sept. 11. -MSNBC

20011109

"Musicians win web royalties fight." -BBC /News

20011108

"Scientists Race for Vaccines: Drug Companies Called Key to Bioterror Fight." .. "At least one major drug company, Pharmacia Corp. of Peapack, N.J., has offered to let government scientists roam through the confidential libraries of millions of compounds it has synthesized to look for drugs against bioterror agents." -By Justin Gillis -WashingtonPost

20010928

"Where's my Islamic e-book? The demand for good books about terrorism or Afghanistan has never been greater, but the best are hard to find. Why can't I just click, buy and download?" The author explains "that in the case of out-of-print or otherwise obscure books that suddenly become relevant because of world events, it shouldn't be that hard to slap a digital version on the Net, and charge for downloads." -By Andrew Leonard-Salon

200109(10)--

"Future Boy: The Napster Legacy: It's a bigger problem than the music industry realizes." -By Erick Schonfeld - 200110-Issue -Business2.0

20010909

"Intellectual Property Is Not a Toy: Mindstorms, Lego's high-tech robotics kit, was an immediate hit. And after hackers cracked the operating system, it became an even bigger hit. Now Lego is left with a conundrum: Leave well enough along, or sue the bastards?" (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) -By Paul Keegan, 200110-Issue -Business2.0

Discussion "Lego and the IP Conundrum" -Slashdot

20010907

"New Copyright Bill Heading to DC" The article reports that "lobbyists ... hope to embed copy-protection controls in nearly all consumer electronic devices and PCs. All types of digital content, including music, video and e-books, are covered."-By Declan McCullagh -Wired

20010906

Opinion "LETTING PUBLIC LIBRARIES DOWN: The Recent Copyright Office Report Misses A Chance To Support A Digital First Sale Doctrine For Libraries" -By Julie Hilden - FindLaw >LegalNews >Writ

20010904

"PluggedIn: In Napster's wake, new services take off" X-Reuters via -

20010831

"Will Copyright Law Kill Your Computing Habits? Digital copyright law faces scrutiny and its first cases--including Sklyarov's prosecution." -By Frank Thorsberg -pcworld via IDG
"Copywrong? A government report giving the Digital Millennium Copyright Act a passing grade is a disaster for the general public, say critics." (1, 2) -By Damien Cave -Salon/-news
"Russia warns computer experts on U.S. travel" -Reuters via FindLaw>LegalNews

20010830

"Keep Digital Copyright Law Intact, Agency Says" -By Ariana Eunjung Cha -WashingtonPost via -Newsbytes
"Protesters declare war on copyright law -By Robert Lemos -ZDNet>News

20010823

"Fingered by the movie cops Under today's copyright laws, you are guilty until proven innocent. I know -- it happened to me." (1, 2, 3, 4) -By Amita Guha -Salon/-news

20010822

"Forget Smart Tags;TopText Is Doing What You Feared." -By Danny Sullivan -SearchEngineWatch

20010818 (19)

"A Powerful Patent: One Company, One University Have Stem Cell Patent" -ABCNEWS

20010817

"Geron in Stem Cell Settlement Talks: University group had sued firm to keep it from exercising exclusive control over certain types." -Bloomberg via -LAtimes
"Stem cell research clouded University of Wisconsin patent could inhibit work in United States" -By Sheryl Gay Stolberg -Charlotte /Observer via Slashdot /Discussion

20010815

"Genie is out of the bottle for recording industry" -By Tom Regan -CSMonitor

20010720

"Revenge of the file-sharing masses! By smashing Napster, the music industry has pushed its customers to seek alternatives that won't be so easy to shut down." (1, 2) -By Scott Rosenberg -Salon/-news

20000710

"Ethics of owning parts of our genetic 'blueprint': As research accelerates, some scientists question the wisdom of patenting pieces of the human genome." -By Peter N. Spotts -CSMonitor

20010621

"The right to good ideas: Intellectual-property rights are not just for the rich world. Carefully constructed, they can help the poorest too" --Economist

20010620

"End of an affair? Hackers love their TiVos, and the company is fond of its hackers. But as in any relationship, sometimes one party goes a bit too far." (1, 2, 3, 4) -By Damien Cave -Salon/-news

20010614

"Courtney Love Does the Math" (2, 3, 4, 5, 6) -Salon

20010426 (30)

"FTC's Probe Of Data Brokers Turns to Clients: Banking Privacy Law Cited" -WashingtonPost

20010406

"FTC charges Hearst with monopolizing drug databases"-Computerworld

20010109

"Teens stake a claim on their DNA - and the lessons stick" - By Lauren Gravitz -CSMonitor