Ex-lawmaker convicted of rape: Name is copyrighted

A former South Dakota lawmaker convicted of raping his two foster daughters has sent news organizations what he claims is a copyright notice that seeks to prevent the use of his name without his consent.

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Gov't plans new crackdown on copyright theft

The government pledged renewed efforts Tuesday to crack down on copyright theft, promising to aggressively pursue foreign and domestic counterfeiters of movies, CDs and other items that cost U.S. businesses billions of dollars each year.

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Skype founders file lawsuit against eBay

A company owned by the founders of Skype has filed a copyright infringement suit against the Internet phone service and parent eBay Inc. — an action that could crimp eBay's plans to sell Skype for about $2 billion to a group of private investors.

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AP settles case over copying of news stories

The Associated Press will collect undisclosed damages as part of a settlement of its lawsuit against All Headline News, a site that copied AP stories online without permission.

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British singer Bragg blasts EU copyright extension

British singer Billy Bragg blasted Wednesday a proposed European Union law to nearly double music copyright to 95 years, saying it would give a huge windfall to major recording labels.

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Judge reaffirms 1918 legal doctrine in AP lawsuit

A federal judge has reaffirmed that a 1918 legal doctrine applies in the Internet age by allowing The Associated Press to proceed with a copyright-infringement lawsuit against a company accused of redistributing the news organization's stories.

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Study: Unlicensed stories reel in Internet readers

Here's another reason for ailing newspaper and magazine publishers to wince: On average, the audience perusing unauthorized online copies of their articles is nearly 1.5 times larger than the readership on their own Web sites, according to a study released Thursday.

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News organizations sue Texas-based Web sites

Several newspapers and The Associated Press filed suit Friday against the operator of a collection of Web sites, alleging "wholesale misappropriation" of their news content that infringes on their copyright.

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US targets China, Russia, 7 other nations on copyrights

The Bush administration is accusing China, Russia and seven other nations of failing to protect American producers of movies, computer software and other copyrighted material from widespread piracy.

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Industry Group Sues China Search Engine

China's top search engine, Baidu.com, has been sued by a music industry group in China over an alleged copyright violation, according to a statement released by the Music Copyright Society of China.

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Baidu Sued Over Music Copyrights

China's top search engine Baidu.com has been sued by a local music industry group for alleged copyright violation, the second recent similar action from the industry, the group said.

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Egypt Trying to Copyright Monuments

Egypt might copyright its pharaonic antiquities, from the pyramids to scarab beetles, in an attempt to get paid from the sale of replicas, an official said Thursday.

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YouTube Unveils Anti-Piracy Filters

Online video leader YouTube has rolled out long-awaited technology to automatically remove copyrighted clips, hoping to placate movie and television studios fed up with the Web site's persistent piracy problems.

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Australian Court Issues Copyright Ruling

Providing Web links to copyright-protected music is enough to make a site legally liable, an Australian court ruled in a case that created legal uncertainty for search engines around the world.

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U.S. Copyright Office Issues New Rights

Cell phone owners will be allowed to break software locks on their handsets in order to use them with competing carriers under new copyright rules announced Wednesday.

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European Artists Defend Copyright Fees

European filmmakers and musicians spoke out Wednesday against any possible EU moves to end copyright levies on electronic equipment, saying this would deprive them of fair compensation for people copying their works.

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U.S.: China Failing to Fight Piracy

China's failure to crack down on pirating of American movies, music and software is costing U.S. businesses billions of dollars and putting jobs at risk, lawmakers and government officials said Wednesday.

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George Lucas's empire failed to strike back yesterday after he lost a legal battle with the British maker of Stormtrooper helmets for the film Star Wars.

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A Paris court has found Google guilty of copyright infringement in a ruling which could have ramifications for its plans to digitise the world's books.

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Here's a strange story: the European Union is leaning hard on Canada to adopt a new "resale right" under which creators would receive compensation—even when the item is resold.

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A former South Dakota lawmaker convicted of raping his two foster daughters has sent news organizations what he claims is a copyright notice that seeks to prevent the use of his name without his consent.

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Former lawmaker Ted Alvin Klaudt, who was previously convicted of raping his two foster daughters, has sent copyright threats to news outlets in an attempt to ban them from repeating his name. Ted Alvin Klaudt wants $500,000 per infringement

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Following an official press release recently that the Pirate Party of Australia is now accepting members, a scathing editorial was written in the Sydney Morning Herald.

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As it tries to repair the public relations disaster over the arrest of a 22 year-old woman who took photographs of her sister's birthday party while watching New Moon, theater chain Muvico digs itself a deeper, even more embarrassing hole.

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A broad swath of American enterprise ranging from major software makers to motion picture and music companies are joining forces to oppose a new international treaty that would make books more accessible to the blind.

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Taping three minutes of "Twilight: New Moon" during a visit to a Rosemont movie theater landed Samantha Tumpach in a jail cell for two nights.

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The claims arise from a longstanding practice of the recording industry in Canada, described in the lawsuit as "exploit now, pay later if at all." It involves the use of works that are often included in compilation CDs (ie. the top dance tracks of 2009) or live recordings.

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Google and several other Internet giants are lobbying the U.K. government to drop a proposal that would allow the secretary of state to introduce new changes to copyright law.

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Accused of using songs on compilation CDs or live recordings under pretense that "approval and payment is pending," though the so-called "pending list" has grown to 300,000 and counting, and now artists, fed up with continued infringement by record labels, are demanding $ …

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A Twilight fan is facing three-years in jail for using her camera at a birthday party inside a cinema screening of the film.

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Woman jailed, charged with felony camcordering after recording 4 mins of sister's birthday party in a movie theater

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A 22-year-old Chicago woman was arrested and charged with a felony after taping 4 minutes of "New Moon" during her sister's surprise 29th birthday party.

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Some of the biggest names on the web have written to Peter Mandelson to express "grave concerns" about elements of the Digital Economy Bill.

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For more than a year, BitTorrent search engine isoHunt has chased the Canadian music industry in court. In an act of self-defense, the founder of the site has sued the Canadian branch of the RIAA, asking the court to legalize its operations.

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The Netherlands-based file-sharing website Mininova has removed all torrents that enabled users to download copyright-protected material.

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Mobile operators are unable to comply with proposed anti-copyright theft legislation that requires them to identify unlawful file-sharers, the head of an industry body has said.

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A company called Volomedia just got the US Patent Office to grant them exclusive rights to patent podcasting. Say what? The Electronic Frontier Foundation is fighting, and is putting out a call for help for all the O.G. podcasters out there.

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For those who have slightly better memory of recent events than an average gerbil, you'll surely remember that not too long ago, the Intelligent Design folks, with the help of Ben Stein, put together a whole movie about how evilutionists are all a bunch of evil fascists, out to s …

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After discovering the Pirate Bay logo hadn't been registered with the patent office, a Swedish company took the opportunity to claim it as their own in order to commercially exploit it.

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Seen by millions of people worldwide, the ship design used by The Pirate Bay is one of the most recognizable logos on the Internet today.

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If Google Book Search was to come into our homes every week and demand to see our reading lists, as well as instal security cameras to monitor exactly what we read, we would protest. But this is an online, invisible invasion.

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TheAtlantic round-up of responses to Rupert Murdoch interview with Sky News Australia.

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