Posts Tagged ‘anti-circumvention’

You Think U.S. Copyright Law is Bad?

By Jonathan Bailey • Jan 28th, 2009 • Category: Articles, DMCA, Legal Issues

U.S. Copyright law has gotten something of a bad rep over the years. But how bad is it? Turns out not as crazy as some of the laws/restrictions we see in other countries…



CAPTCHAs and the DMCA

By Jonathan Bailey • Nov 14th, 2007 • Category: Articles, DMCA, Legal Issues, Prevention

Yesterday I received an email Ben Maurer, one of the engineers for reCAPTCHA.
In addition to responding to a comment on a post from last week, he alerted me to a copyright case involving Tickmaster (TM) and RMG Technologies. According to the complaint and subsequent injunction (embedded below), RMG produced an application that allowed users [...]