By Corynne McSherry In a long-anticipated decision, the Supreme Court held today that the first sale doctrine applies to works…
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By JacobSloan The decision to hound Swartz on flimsy charges with the possibility of decades in prison was in part…
New York street photographer Brandon Stanton, who runs the Humans of New York site, was approached by DKNY a few…
Donna Anderson Infowars.com A proposal under consideration by a school board in Upper Marlboro, MD, is intended to protect the…
In a surprisingly legal move, the government of Antigua is planning to open a website selling media and software without…
Kim Dotcom: Mega Will Turn Encryption into a Mass Product … Next month Kim Dotcom will release a new and…
By Dave Jamieson The leading federation for organized labor has sent a stern cease-and-desist letter to “Unionmade,” the trendy apparel…
By Seth Fiegerman Over the weekend, Apple and HTC announced a surprise settlement to their global patent battle, along with…
US tech giant Apple has dished out 20 million Swiss francs ($A20.27 million) to compensate Swiss national rail operator SBB…
In late August Pirate Bay founder Gottfrid Svartholm was arrested in Cambodia. After being held by authorities there he was…
By Mike Masnick One of the reasons why we live in such an innovative society is that we’ve (for the…
By Cyrus Farivar Even as France looks set to scrap its three-strikes antipiracy scheme known as HADOPI, US Internet providers…
Anyone using file-sharing service BitTorrent to download the latest film or music release is likely to be monitored, UK-based researchers…
Dara Kerr CNet.com The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is seizing domains and taking down URLs in the name of…
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By Cory Doctorow BoingBoing The Trans-Pacific Partnership is the son of ACTA, a secretive copyright and trade treaty being negotiated…
By Zack Whittaker After making remarks critical of the U.S. government’s attempts to strengthen international copyright law, the judge at…