Latest Copyright law Stories
A San Francisco court could decide this week if DVD users can make personal backups the way people do with audio, as the six big film studios are claiming that a program called RealDVD violates copyright, BBC News reported.Bill Hankes of RealDVD said the consumer should have the same fair use rights to copy DVDs just as they have for the last decade with music.The RealNetworks-produced digital copying program allows DVD owners to create digital copies of their discs for their own personal use...
Hollywood is taking on RealNetworks Inc. to federal court on Friday after claiming its DVD "ripping" program is an illegal digital piracy tool, the Associated Press reported.But RealNetworks is arguing that its $29.99 software that allows DVDs to be easily copied to computer hard drives is legitimate.The movie industry suggests that consumers will quickly lose interest in paying retail for DVDs that can be rented cheaply, copied and returned should RealNetworks continue to be...
Drake's Customized Hospitality Solutions with Pro:Idiom Enable MSOs to Conveniently Deliver HD channels to Hotels, Hospitals WASHINGTON, April 1 /PRNewswire/ -- R.L. Drake, an American cable TV equipment manufacturer committed to designing and building highly innovative communications solutions for over 65 years, has checked in as distributor of LG Electronics' Pro: Idiom(R) cable transcoders to cable operators in the United States and Canada. Drake will integrate the revolutionary...
WESTPORT, Conn., Feb. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Shore Communications Inc. (www.shore.com), a leading market research and executive consulting firm active in the publishing, content technology, social media and enterprise knowledge arenas, said today that it has added two new team members to its roster of talent available for client engagements. The two are Laurie Webster, a market assessment specialist and designer of sales and research systems, and John Buckman, a marketing and...
Six and a half years behind bars. That is what a Chinese counterfeiting gang that sold at least $2 billion worth of bogus Microsoft Corp. software will spend for their illegal actions. It is believed to be the harshest penalties yet under China's tightened piracy laws.Eleven defendants received the punishment that was announced by Microsoft Corp.The strict punishment could help China improve its image as a country that doesn't crack down hard enough on copyright violators. Microsoft calls the...
REDMOND, Wash., Dec. 31 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The Futian People's Court in Shenzhen, China, handed down sentences to 11 ringleaders of the world's largest software counterfeiting syndicate today. The sentences, ranging from 1.5 to 6.5 years, include the longest sentences handed down for this type of crime in China's history. Based in the southern China province of Guangdong, members of the syndicate were arrested by Chinese authorities in July 2007, following an international...
Background Screening Agency Accreditation Program Will Rollout in Conjunction with Annual Conference in April 2009 MORRISVILLE, N.C., Dec. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Association of Professional Background Screeners (NAPBS(R)) announces it will launch its new Background Screening Agency Accreditation Program (BSAAP) in conjunction with the 2009 NAPBS Annual Conference, which will be held April 19-22, 2009 in St. Louis, MO. Governed by a strict and thorough set of professional...
PRINCETON, N.J., Dec. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Destiny Media Technologies, with its Play MPE(R) music-video electronic distribution service to broadcast outlets and other trusted recipients, has enrolled in the internationally approved Anti-Piracy and Compliance Programs of the Content Delivery and Storage Association (CDSA). As the major global digital download distributor for broadcast content, Destiny Media Technologies is a software development company which provides tools which some of...
A recent study found that unauthorized copies of articles are read by 2.5 times more people online than the original source. Copyright monitoring company Attributor Corp. sought to identify the "true audience" of Web content. The study was conducted from September 12 to October 12, 2008.Attributor found that "publishers have an untapped off-site audience that is nearly 1.5 times the size of the audience that visits their destination site."This translated into 140 percent more off-site views...
Attributor Corporation, provider of the world's first Web-wide content monitoring and programming platform, today released the first study ever to quantify the audience size and monetary value of original publisher content on other sites. The study shows, in detail, a huge and largely untapped opportunity for online publishers of all types and sizes. The study tracked online content from more than 100 publishers in a broad range of categories, including entertainment, sports, technology,...
