Two more interesting applications have been blocked by Apple in its quixotic quest to police what users can think and do while using their iPhones.First, we have Me So Holy, an iPhone app that takes a snapshot of the user and cleverly pastes it over the faces of holy...

The photos by official White House photographer Pete Souza are now available to the public on the White House Flickr stream under a new arrangement: in place of the Creative Commons Attribution license used previously, the photos are now identified as "United States Government Works," along with a...

If you are a vidder, a movie trailer mashup creator, YouTube movie critic, or anyone else who needs to take clips from DVDs in order to make an original remix video, you might be interested in the hearings held last week before the U.S. Copyright Office,...

About a week ago, blogger Perez Hilton issued a DMCA takedown notice, asking YouTube to remove a video created by the National Organization of Marriage (NOM). The video used a clip from Hilton's blog in which he strongly criticized Miss California USA Carrie Prejean, in response to...

If we had tried to invent a scenario that would illustrate some of the reasons why we need DMCA exemptions for cell phone "jailbreaking," we could not have come up with a better story than Trent Reznor's recent troubles with Apple's iPhone app store.Reznor, front man for the band...

Rep. Boucher Pushes Internet Privacy LegislationThe Virginia congressman wants legislation that will protect the public against behavioral advertising and other new technologies.
Obama's First 100 Days: High Marks for Science, Low for PrivacyWired's Threat Level blog grades the Obama administration on issues of copyright, cyber security, transparency...

In recent weeks, there have been a number of important developments relating to the the Google Book Search settlement, currently awaiting approval before a court in New York. As we've written previously, this settlement would end the litigation that has pitting book publishers and authors against Google over...