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The Problem with eBook Piracy Spam

17 April, 201917 April, 2019DMCA, Piracy15 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...

Irony Alert: Youtube Bot Silences Conference on Surveillance Overreach

9 April, 201612 May, 2017DMCALeave a comment

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...

Take Down and Stay Down – Rethinking the DMCA

28 March, 20163 April, 2016DMCA, Intellectual Property11 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...

Tumblr Reminds Us Why Creators Need to Own Their Platform

29 February, 201612 June, 2017DMCA, Intellectual PropertyLeave a comment

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...

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

30 December, 201512 May, 2017DMCALeave a comment

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...

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

28 December, 201530 December, 2015DMCA6 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...

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

27 October, 20155 May, 2017DMCA, DRM11 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 procedure earlier this year, and...

PSA: Playster Isn’t Illegally Hosting Your PDFs

13 August, 20155 September, 2015DMCA, Piracy13 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...

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

11 July, 20159 June, 2018DMCA, Intellectual Property, The Authors Guild11 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...

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

11 March, 201528 March, 2019DMCA, Piracy2 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 fraudulent DMCA, and...

Scammers Now Trolling Indie Authors With Bogus DMCA Notices

3 March, 20153 March, 2015DMCA, Scam8 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...

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

8 February, 201520 July, 2015DMCA, Intellectual Property, Stupid Nonsense2 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...

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

12 January, 201512 January, 2015Censorship, DMCALeave a comment

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 Chilling...

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

5 November, 201411 May, 2017DMCALeave a comment

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...

CafePress, Self-Publishing and the DMCA

7 April, 201411 May, 2017DMCA, Piracy, Self-Pub10 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...

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