DMCA

Irony Alert: Youtube Bot Silences Conference on Surveillance Overreach

9 April, 2016 // 0 Comments

The US Copyright Office has recently ended the public comment period on the possible revamping of the 18-year-old DMCA, and that's a shame because we've just been handed another example of why one [Read More ...]

Take Down and Stay Down – Rethinking the DMCA

28 March, 2016 // 11 Comments

Guest post: Jonathan Bailey, editor and publisher of Plagiarism Today, discusses how a "notice and stay down" DMCA provision might work in practice. There aren’t very many people happy with the [Read More ...]

Tumblr Reminds Us Why Creators Need to Own Their Platform

29 February, 2016 // 0 Comments

Nearly all creators know that they need to keep their copyright so that they can control their creations, but even though it's 2016 some still forget to apply that same principle to their online [Read More ...]

The Problem with eBook Piracy Spam

8 February, 2016 // 12 Comments

Try this experiment. Go to Amazon and pull up any book, any book at all as long as it has been out for at least a few months. Then, search for the title of that book (in quotes) and add either [Read More ...]

US Copyright Office Announces Study on Impact and Effectiveness of DMCA “Safe Harbor” Provisions

30 December, 2015 // 0 Comments

Earlier this week the Copyright Office launched a public inquiry into the impact of the DMCA exemptions process, and today it launched a second inquiry into a related part of the DMCA, the "safe [Read More ...]

US Copyright Office Wants Your Input on the DMCA Rule-Making Process

28 December, 2015 // 6 Comments

According to InfoDocket, the US Copyright Office has opened a public inquiry into the way the DMCA works. From now until 25 February, the Copyright Office is inviting the public to submit comments: [Read More ...]

Copyright Office Says Security Researchers May Hack Cars, But We Can’t Strip DRM From eBooks

27 October, 2015 // 11 Comments

Every three years the US Copyright Office asks the public to suggest exemptions to the DMCA restrictions on circumventing DRM. Recommendations were submitted in a Section 1201 rule-making [Read More ...]

PSA: Playster Isn’t Illegally Hosting Your PDFs

13 August, 2015 // 13 Comments

There's a new scam sweeping the internet, one which is harming both authors and readers alike. Over the past few weeks I've heard authors say that they're finding more pirated copies of their [Read More ...]

The Authors Guild Petitions Congress for Unworkable “Notice and Stay Down” Provision

11 July, 2015 // 11 Comments

The Authors Guild has just shown us that while they may have grown more author savvy under the new administration they certainly haven't become any more tech savvy than they were before. On [Read More ...]

Pirate eBook Site Threatens Anti-Piracy Firm Over Bogus DMCA Notices

11 March, 2015 // 2 Comments

The Ultimate Ebook Library (TUEBL), a known pirate ebook site, is about to lay the smackdown on the anti-piracy outfit MUSO. TorrentFreak reports that TUEBL has had enough of MUSO's [Read More ...]

Scammers Now Trolling Indie Authors With Bogus DMCA Notices

3 March, 2015 // 8 Comments

The copyright notice and takedown provisions of the DMCA may help creators by shielding sites like Youtube and the Kindle Store from liability, but that same provision can still be used as a weapon [Read More ...]

Ancestry.com Files Bogus DMCA Notice to Keep Public Domain Records Offline

8 February, 2015 // 2 Comments

Long the go-to site for declassified US govt documents, The Black Vault has recently faced a setback in its efforts to digitize and upload records from Project Bluebook, the US Air Force's decades [Read More ...]

DMCA Archive Chilling Effects Mistakenly Censors Itself, Plans to Reverse Its Error

12 January, 2015 // 0 Comments

Long the goto site for tracking DMCA takedown notices, ChillingEffects.org dismayed many techies last week when it announced that it was removing itself from Google. According TorrentFreak: The [Read More ...]

EFF Files for DMCA Exemption on the Right to Strip DRM from Abandoned Video Games

5 November, 2014 // 0 Comments

Two days ago I expressed regret for missing the opportunity to petition for a DMCA exemption for stripping ebook DRM after the servers have been turned off. and now it seems the EFF had a very [Read More ...]

CafePress, Self-Publishing and the DMCA

7 April, 2014 // 10 Comments

Sometimes, in copyright circles, important cases and rulings have a way of avoiding the limelight. With all of the attention recently paid to the “Innocence of Muslims” ruling, a different [Read More ...]

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