The EFF has launched a new TOS tracker to help users spot and understand changes to the terms of service that govern their online life.

BackType, a new comment search engine, has raised the ire of many bloggers for its practice of scraping and republishing full comments. But what is the service about and how can it resolve these issues?

In what has to be one of the strangest weeks for copyright news, we’re going to have a tough time telling the hard news from the jokes as a strange cast of characters line up to keep copyright law interesting.

It was another busy week for copyright news with updates and opinions from across the copyright spectrum. Be on the lookout for news from the AAs, Congress, Bittorrernt trackers and many, many more places.

Premium user-generated content site Yepic, famous for encouraging bloggers to sell premium content through their service, is preparing to close their doors in just under a month, making another shift in the volatile user-generated content business.

The prospects for the orphan works legislation improve as a major artist trade group, the ASMP, throws their support behind the current version, calling it the best that artists are likely to get.

It was another wild week for copyright news with a major setback for the RIAA, legislation making its way through Congress and so much more to talk about.

It was yet another wild week for copyright news with the RIAA taking a hit in court, Radiohead turning around on the free model and even more news from Madonna and Yoko Ono among many others.

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If you read this site regularly, you probably know a great deal about how to protect your content on the Web. However, you probably also know that the current system is an inelegant solution in need of serious repair. Here’s what’s wrong and what can be done about it.