copyright

Hooray! The United States Supreme Court has quietly upheld a previous ruling from a lower court that said it was OK to skip commercials. Some of the complainers and whiners were 20th Century Fox and cable television producers, which included CNN plus the Cartoon Network. But the consumer has won the last round in the [...]

Electronic technology has brought substantial benefits to all of us. But the advances have also brought about other problems that appear to be surfacing when it comes to copyright laws. There is now a lawsuit against AT&T bought by the ASCAP [The American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers], which states that musical ringtones in [...]

The New York Times is now raising an issue if bloggers, even Google, can quote text from an article that is written by their staff. It seems that as the economy sours for newspapers, they are seeking other sources of revenue to supplement their failing news print business. Coming under further attack is Google that [...]

The music industry is at it once again. They have sued college students, teenagers, and even a dead woman in their attempt to stop music piracy. Now they are turning to the ISP’s across the land and want them to be the new copyright police. It seems that music piracy is at an all time [...]

So what is a blog anyway? Is it just a collection of ideas being shared by one person? Or is it a Personal Blog? Personal in that it reflects the blogger only and doesn’t represent anyone else or any company. This is what the author of The Patry Copyright Blog is stating for the reason [...]

A judge has ordered Google to turn over data they have collected on their YouTube site to Viacom. Viacom has sued Google for a Billion big ones claiming copyright infringements. Privacy groups content that companies such as Google are collecting vast amounts of consumer data and are concerned that our privacy rights are being violated. [...]