DMCA

After On-Air Mishaps, Embarrassed Newscasters Turn to Copyright Law

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Whether we consider the purpose of copyright to be to protect economic rights or moral rights, copyright is a powerful yet dangerous instrument.

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The DMLP Joins EFF in an Amicus Brief Addressing DMCA Misrepresentations and Critical Speech

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Earlier today the Digital Media Law Project, through our counsel at the Harvard Law School Cyberlaw Clinic, joined a brief filed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts case Tuteur v. Crosley-Corcoran.

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Does the DMCA's Safe Harbor Apply to Pre-1972 Sound Recordings?

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Some of the most commercially successful and popular music of all time – including the entire catalog of The Beatles – is subject to a degree of uncertainty under current copyright law in the United States due to an anomaly in the federal copyright framework with respect to older sound recordings.

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Viacom v. YouTube: The Second Circuit Punts on 'Right and Ability to Control'

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I'm not all that worried about YouTube's legal fate as such (I'm pretty sure Google can afford plenty of lawyers), but when the Second Circuit speaks on the DMCA, I listen.

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Can AP's Copyright Claims Hold (Melt)water?

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By now you might have heard about the lawsuit that the Associated Press filed against on-demand software company Meltwater News.

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The Persian Version: Why Support for ACTA Undermines U.S. Promotion of Internet Freedom

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"To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it . . ." –Definition of Doublethink from 1984, George Orwell

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Candidate Joe Walsh vs. Rocker Joe Walsh: A DMCA Knockout

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After a month of snarky letter and email exchanges, Republican U.S. Congressional candidate Joe Walsh recently removed a campaign video from his website that used a song by the Eagles band member also named Joe Walsh.

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