A district court in Nevada has ruled that the Google Cache is a fair use.Blake Field, an author and attorney, brought the copyright infringement lawsuit against Google after the search engine automatically copied and cached a story he posted on his website. The district court found that Mr....

The Los Angeles Times reports that the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) made unauthorized copies of a new documentary, This Film Not Yet Rated, that is critical of the organization.
The copies were apparently made when the film was submitted for an MPAA rating. The film got...

Draft legislation making the rounds in the U.S. Senate gives us a preview of the MPAA and RIAA's next target: your television and radio. (Please write your Senator about this!)
You say you want the power to time-shift and space-shift TV and radio? You say you want...

Google, Yahoo, MSN, AOL and other search engines have massive databases that reach into the most intimate details of your life-- what you search for, what you read, what worries you, what you enjoy. It is critical to protect the privacy of this information so that people can feel free...

In the previous post, we noted the approaching deadline for filing reply comments in the Copyright Office's DMCA rulemaking proceeding and summarized the proposed exemption submitted by Ed Felten and J. Alex Halderman. This post highlights another key first round comment, one submitted by the Stanford Center...

Last week, we told you about a troublesome "phone home" feature in iTunes MiniStore -- one of the new "improvements" in iTunes announced at MacWorld. The MiniStore looks at what you listen to and suggests additional songs and artists you might like, but they were some big problems with...

Canadian politics have been exciting of late -- a scandal, a collapsed government, and now another scandal involving a member of that collapsed government. But the really interesting bit is that the last scandal revolves around a Canadian MP's close ties to Hollywood, and...