The EU Intellectual Property Office rules against Banksy in his trademark fight with a greeting card company, citing his own statement that ‘Copyright is for losers’ and his anonymity ~arts Article 682 words 13 votes
YouTube can now warn creators about copyright issues before videos are posted ~tech social media internet Article 415 words 15 votes
Google LLC v. Oracle America, Inc. lawsuit: Can APIs be copyrighted? ~comp Article 4152 words 14 votes
January 1, 2021 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1925 are open to all! ~arts Article 3842 words 28 votes
Apple loses copyright battle against security start-up Corellium ~tech apple security Article 399 words 6 votes
Sweeping new copyright measures poised to pass in spending bill - The CASE Act and a felony streaming proposal are included ~tech Article 448 words 36 votes
Clive Barker, who wrote and directed the 1987 horror flick Hellraiser, has successfully leveraged copyright law to recapture the American rights to the franchise ~movies horror Article 302 words 8 votes
Scientific publishers consider installing spyware in university libraries to protect copyrights ~tech privacy Article 1073 words 9 votes
The RIAA's fraudulent attack on youtube-dl is not a DMCA §512 infringement/safe-harbour, and the reality is weird ~tech Link 37 votes
Nintendo’s lawyers nuke ‘The Missing Link’ fangame with copyright complaint ~games Article 648 words 12 votes
The Online Content Policy Modernization Act is an unconstitutional mess ~tech internet Article 891 words 7 votes
Human rights and "technical protection measures" (DRM) - Lessons from twenty-two years of the US DMCA ~tech Article 5492 words 9 votes
Twitter disables video in Trump retweet after Linkin Park files copyright complaint ~tech social media Article 372 words 10 votes
Internet Archive ends its "National Emergency Library" unlimited digital book-lending program in response to lawsuit filed by publishers ~tech Article 481 words 14 votes
Copyright blocks interview of protesters because Marvin Gaye's 'Let's get it on' was playing in the background ~tech facebook social media Article 327 words, published Jun 3 2020 17 votes
Four major US publishers sue Internet Archive for copyright infringement, alleging that it has illegally offered more than a million scanned works to the public ~books libraries Article 665 words 30 votes
Copyright bots and classical musicians are fighting online. The bots are winning ~music classical Article 1947 words 15 votes
America’s deadly obsession with intellectual property: Privatizing life-saving technology like vaccines and clean energy is bad both for the coronavirus and the climate crisis ~tech Article 1408 words 9 votes
UNESCO suggests COVID-19 is a reason to create... eternal copyright ~tech Article 794 words, published Apr 23 2020 10 votes
Why authors are so angry about the Internet Archive’s Emergency Library ~books libraries Article 1838 words 10 votes
YouTube's copyright system isn't broken. The world's is ~tech internet social media Video 42:29 20 votes
An Australian company which holds the rights to reproduce the Aboriginal design on flags and banners is a step closer to suing the seller of a reworked flag for alleged copyright infringement ~news australia Article 560 words 7 votes
Bogus automated copyright claims by CBS blocked Super Tuesday speeches by Bernie Sanders, Mike Bloomberg, and Joe Biden ~tech Article 292 words 11 votes
Re-evaluating the DMCA twenty-two years later: Let’s think of the users ~tech internet Article 1257 words 13 votes
The YouTube copyright metagame part 1: The history of Copyright on YouTube and How YouTubers deal with it ~tech social media Video 21:21, published Sep 21 2019 7 votes
James Joyce’s grandson and the death of the stubborn literary executor ~books literature Article 1023 words 7 votes
The law that helped the internet flourish now undermines democracy ~tech internet Article 934 words 8 votes
SpaceX has quietly—and retroactively—relicensed its photos out of the public domain ~space Article 744 words, published Dec 11 2019 14 votes
Danish artist Tal R seeks to stop his work being cut up to make watches ~arts art Article 546 words 8 votes
The Supreme Court will hear Google’s appeal in the long-running copyright/API dispute with Oracle ~tech google Article 266 words 24 votes
Viacom sues YouTube for a billion dollars | YouTube Geographic ~tech social media Video 26:53, published Dec 14 2018 6 votes
House overwhelmingly approves contentious new copyright bill ~news law usa politics.usa Article 654 words 19 votes
“This has to end. We cannot say it any clearer.” A guide to the decades-long familial dispute over John Steinbeck’s estate. ~books literature Article 1218 words, published Sep 13 2019 7 votes
Libraries and archivists are scanning and uploading books that are secretly in the public domain ~books libraries Article 833 words 8 votes
Katy Perry's hit Dark Horse copied a Christian rap song, jury finds ~music Article 450 words, published Jul 30 2019 11 votes
Apple files lawsuit against virtualization company Corellium for selling ‘perfect replicas’ of iOS ~tech apple security Article 411 words 5 votes
The surprising history of copyright and what it means for Google ~tech google Video 54:58, published Jul 24 2007 4 votes
Danish court orders car dealer to compensate Chinese artist Ai Weiwei for using one of his works, Soleil Levant, as a backdrop for a commercial ~design advertising Article 260 words 6 votes
Twitch is suing the trolls who flooded Artifact streams with porn and gore ~games Article 574 words 13 votes