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When Art, Apple and the Secret Service Collide: ‘People Staring at Computers’
Steve Jobs, staring at the first version of Photo Booth . All watercolors courtesy of David Pierce . I really wasn’t expecting the Secret Service. Maybe an email, or a phone call from...Uncle Sam Wants You! … to Combat Online Piracy
The Obama administration is apparently out of ideas on how to protect Big Content from online piracy. So now it’s asking for your help. Victoria Espinel, the nation’s copyright czar, reached out to...CNET Targeted By the RIAA Over Software that Could be Used to Infringe
If software is being distributed on your website that would be theoretically used to infringe copyright, does that make your website liable for any copyright infringement? The RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America)...South Park’s ‘What What (In the Butt)’ Beats Infringement Claim
A federal appeals court affirmed Thursday that a 2008 South Park parody of a real-world video — “What What (In the Butt)” — did not infringe on the YouTube video of the same...Exclusive Usenet Offers: $7.95/month
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