Court turns away appeal over Steinbeck copyrights

The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal by a son of author John Steinbeck over the publishing rights to "The Grapes of Wrath" and other early works.

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Appeals court reverses Steinbeck copyrights ruling

A federal appeals court Wednesday reversed a ruling that awarded one of John Steinbeck's sons and a granddaughter publishing rights to 10 of the author's early works, including "The Grapes of Wrath" and "Of Mice and Men."

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Group: YouTube to Post Copyright Warning

Popular video-sharing Web site YouTube Inc. has agreed to post Japanese language warnings about respecting copyrights in an attempt to prevent users from uploading copyrighted materials, a Japanese entertainment body said.

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Japan Group Seeks YouTube Copyright System

A Japanese entertainment group has asked the popular video-sharing site YouTube Inc. to implement a system to prevent users from uploading videos that would infringe copyrights, a group spokesman said Tuesday.

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YouTube Purges 30,000 Copyright Files

The popular video-sharing site YouTube deleted nearly 30,000 files after a Japanese entertainment group complained of copyright infringement.

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A federal judge has temporarily blocked two music-sharing Web sites from selling songs by The Beatles and other artists for 25 cents apiece.

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The Quantum Concept for the Music Business: An Alternative to Lawsuits

I can see why P2P free sharing of music is enough to make the blood boil of both corporations and creative individuals. But It reminds me of the joke about why dogs lick their balls.....because they can.

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From the BBC article: Three technology heavyweights are joining a coalition to fight Google's attempt to create what could be the world's largest virtual library. Amazon, Microsoft and Yahoo will sign up to the Open Book Alliance being spearheaded by the Internet Archive.

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Novelist Mark Helprin couldn't have made up what happened after an op-ed article he wrote for the New York Times in 2007 urging stronger protection for copyright. He thought this was a topic of interest only to publishing houses, authors and copyright lawyers.

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The music industry does like to insist that filesharing - aka illegal downloading - is killing the industry: that every one of the millions of music files downloaded each day counts as a "lost" sale, which if only it could somehow have been prevented would put stunning amounts of …

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Advance Patrol was one of the bands used by the prosecution in The Pirate Bay trial as an example of a band harmed by The Pirate Bay. Except... apparently the band didn't think so.

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As the online battle against file-sharers heats up with governments and ISPs forced into the arena, those opposed to being monitored are investigating counter-measures.

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In early December, Juliet Weybret, a high school sophomore and aspiring rock star from Lodi, Calif., recorded a video of herself playing the piano and singing "Winter Wonderland," and she posted it on YouTube.

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The almost comically sweeping attempt to reach the world's entire literate population is a reflection of the ambitions of the Google Book Search project, in which the company hopes to digitize every book — famous or not, in any language, published anywhere on earth — found  …

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What constitutes "fair use" when quoting and linking to other sources on the Internet is discussed in this article. The current economic situation and increasing usage seem to be increasing controversy over how to interpret United States copyright laws.

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Seems they disagree with me, but I stand on my same case.

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The UK's Intellectual Property minister David Lammy has said the government will not force internet service providers to pursue file sharers.

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The internet will get a chance to watch live as lawyers spar in a Recording Industry Association of America file sharing lawsuit this month, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.

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Yesterday we broke a story about YouTube muting videos that use unauthorized copyrighted music as the audio.

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Jerry Scroggin, owner-operator of Bayou Internet and Communications, wants the music and film industries to know that he's not a cop and he doesn't work for free.

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The Recording Industry Association of America is taking a dangerous step with its decision to stop suing suspected music sharers and start cutting off their Internet access instead.

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Instead, the Recording Industry Association of America said it plans to try an approach that relies on the cooperation of Internet-service providers.

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Here, the MPAA is advocating for a number of things, the most problematic of which is a "three strikes" internet termination policy. This would require ISPs to terminate customers' internet accounts upon a rights-holder's repeat allegation of copyright ingfringement.

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Thousands of internet users have been told they'll be taken to court unless they pay hundreds of pounds for illegally downloading and sharing hardcore porn movies.

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Zippos Circus said Birmingham City Council officials told them the show could not go on unless the clowns dropped the musical part of their act. The circus, performing in Calthorpe Park, Edgbaston, until September 23, fell foul of the Licensing Act 2003.

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PARIS, Nov. 1 (UPI) -- The French Senate has approved a three strikes law for Internet users who download copyrighted entertainment without paying for it.

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NPR reports that networks are complaining that YouTube campaign videos are hijacking their copyrighted footage.

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Video sharing site YouTube Inc. told John McCain's presidential campaign this week that although election rally videos are important to viewers, they aren't so important they're exempt from digital rights concerns.

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"Deceptively Delicious," the cookbook by Jessica Seinfeld whose recipes for concealing puréed vegetables in comfort food for children bore such similarities to another cookbook's that it inspired a lawsuit from that book's author, shot to the top of the Amazon best-selle …

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The cliché that DRM stands for "doesn't really matter" holds true, so branding tracks as "MP3" is a bit too much insider for the mass consumer market. It's like wireless operators branding their content services "BREW downloads" based on the technology used to deliver it.

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