Documentary filmakers win exception to DMCA

About damn time. Hopefully this will open up the DMCA even more--a more user-restrictive copyright document would be hard to find.

Theft by media

Looks like neither the NY Times nor Politico could bother to wait until Rolling Stone came out with their Afghanistan story.

As noted in the comments to that story, this is incredibly unethical.

WB sued for pirating anti-pirating technology

Irony: Thy Name is Warner Bros.

NFL is denied broad anti-trust exemption

Good decision by SCOTUS, which allows other intellectual property users to compete.

Know your fair use!

Protecting yourself against youtube takedowns

AP claiming links are not "fair use"

Someone needs to sit down with the Associated Press. Somehow they have it in their head that someone linking to an AP article and using their headline is not fair use.

Putting aside the point that most newspapers who run AP articles are free to change their headlines (and many do), they must not realize that short titles, phrases, etc. are not covered under the Copyright Act.

Copyright restoration overturned?

First I've heard of Golan v Ashcroft. If anyone has an update, please let me know.