The orphan works bill, killed nearly two years ago after a protest from artists, seems prepared to make a reappearance sometime in the coming days or weeks. Learn what you need to be prepared here.

It was another wild week for copyright news with stories from all across the globe. This week, we hear more from J.K. Rowling, The Pirate Bay, the IFPI, Comcast and even Yoko Ono.

It has been another full week for copyright news with J.K. Rowling heading to court against one of fans, a slew of RIAA news and even an appearance by Yoko Ono.

With so many new search engines, directories and social news sites repurposing the full feed, often against the will of bloggers, perhaps it is time to have a central repository of this information. Leave a comment and have your voice heard on this matter.

Shyftr is not the first site to make use of your full feed or offer commenting as part of a user experience. Here are three other sites that you may want to take a look at.

The notion of fragmented conversations has drawn a lot of attention over the past few weeks. However, what are the real implications solutions to the problem?

Spammers are nothing if not clever and a new technique to scrape posts could cause headaches for bloggers as it thwarts many of the traditional means of shutting down the scrapers.

If you can read this, then you’re probably looking at PlagiarismToday on its new, albeit temporary, home. I’m currently upgrading and expanding the hosting to make it faster and more reliable.

It was another wild week for copyright news with developments in net neutrality, bittorrent trackers and much more.

It’s been another wild week for copyright news. The Village People attempt to compete for the dumbest DMCA notice ever, Demonoid comes back and the debate over net filtering gets hotters than ever.