Though the majority of DMCA notices are valid and proper, every once in a while you learn about a really good DMCA Fail. Here are my five favorites.

The safe harbor provision is one of the most commonly used and most controversial elements of modern copyright law. But how can the law be improved? Here are five ways.

Whenever copyright holders are first introduced to the idea of a DMCA takedown, they inevitably have many questions about it. Here are ten of the more common questions answered.

Though many understand how the DMCA is designed to function when it comes to removing infringing works, few have any idea what happens after a notice has been submitted. It is time to change that.

It was this time last year that I began to compile my list of predictions for content theft and plagiarism in the new year. Invariably, some of the predictions were right, others were wrong and some split the difference. So, before I look forward into 2008, I want to take a moment and look back [...]

For the next chapter of the “DMCA Seven” series, we take a look at a different kind of hosts, domain hosts. These differ from most of the other hosts we’ve covered in that they are not free services, but rather, paid hosts that earn monthly or yearly fees from their subscribers. Despite the apparent conflict [...]

Rachel Hyman works in a bar in New York City. Part of her job involves confiscating fake IDs from underage patrons that are attempting to drink illegally. Recently, Hyman took one of those fake IDs and posted it to her blog. When she discovered that the fake ID was in the person’s real name, she [...]

Previously on this site, I would do weekly wrap-ups of news stories that, while important, didn’t really warrant a full article. I stopped doing that in a bid to focus on the issues specifically pointed at bloggers and other Webmasters. With that being said, several new stories have cropped up that deserve mention as the [...]

DreamHost, one of the largest Web hosting services, posted an entry to their blog yesterday discussing their handling of DMCA notices, in particular false ones. The article was posted in the wake of the settlement of the Michael Crook case and references back to it multiple times. According to the entry, DreamHost received several of [...]

Yesterday, the EFF, Jeffery Diehl and Michael Crook announced that the lawsuit between Dielhl and Crook had been settled. This brings a relatively quick end to the case, which was started in November, and puts to rest the issue of Crook’s false DMCA notices. All parties involved seem to be very happy with the settlement. [...]