The new Electronic Copyright Office system was supposed to speed up copyright registrations. Instead, it has tripled the wait and put the whole system in jeopardy.
Category Archives: News
A Warning for DMCA Filers
A new ruling may make it more difficult to file a DMCA notice and could create some unintentional holes in the safe harbor process.
Creative Commons on Facebook
The Creative Commons Organization has released an application for Facebook offering the best way to license content on the service, for now at least.
The Maureen Dowd Plagiarism Scandal
Maureen Dowd has been accused of plagiarizing part of her most recent column from a blogger. However, do the accusations hold up?
Amazon’s Kindle Lets Anyone Sell Your Content
Amazon has opened up its Kindle to blogs but it comes with a major security hole that makes it possible for anyone to sell any blog, including your own.
1st International Plagiarism Detection Competition
If you develop or help work on a plagiarism detection system, you may want to register for 1st International Plagiarism Detection Competition for a chance to prove how good your system is and claim the cash prize.
Chilling Effects Roars Back to Life
Chilling Effects, after being almost idle for many months, has come roaring back to life with nearly 200 new DMCA notices in just over a month.
Getting Paid for Being Copied
A new initiative by Attributor hopes to bring publishers and advertising networks together to ensure content creators get paid when their content is copied.
Digg Relents on DiggBar
After nearly two weeks of controversy, Digg had relented on the DiggBar, removing it for the majority of viewers.
Google Accepts Online DMCAs for Blogger
Historically, Google has been a DMCA headache, even as its Blogger service has become overrun with spammers. That may be about to change.
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