iParadigms won a lawsuit filed by a four students alleging that their Turnitin service violated their copyright. But how will the ruling affect Webmasters and those of us dealing with indexing outside the classroom? The answer is unclear.

It is Monday again and that means it is time, in addition to my regular posting on the Blog Herald, for another episode of the Copyright 2.0 Show.
As usual, I sat down with Chris Matthieu from Numly to discuss the past week in copyright news, views and abuse. This week was a whirlwind week, [...]

I pay good money for my hosting and enjoy rock-solid service (well, semi-solid at least) from a reliable hosting company.
Despite running several domains, I am nowhere near my bandwidth limit for my account and am in no danger of going over my allotted 1 TB of bandwidth. I could probably host all of my [...]

Typically, I don’t comment on ongoing controversies, especially ones that I’ve already talked about on the Copyright 2.0 Show.
However, the Lane Hartwell controversy does not seem prepared to end. With the flames already fanned by some of the most popular bloggers, the debate rages on as Hartwell released her much-anticipated statement yesterday and the division [...]

On the surface, YouTube seems like a natural haven for fair use. The entire system is designed from the ground up to allow the posting of short, low resolution video clips and then embed those clips into blogs and other Web sites for commentary and criticism.
When you look up the four factors of fair use, [...]

Perhaps the most difficult area of copyright law is fair use.
Not only are the issues involved in fair use complicated and difficult to understand, but the answer is never satisfying. Since fair use can only be decided by a judge or jury and is handled on a case-by-case basis, there is no way to [...]

For those who did not know, including myself, today, July 11, is Fair Use Day.
It is a day to celebrate the freedoms that fair use gives us and, according to the organizers, “Exercise your Fair Use rights or contact a corporation or government of your choosing and let them know you want Fair Use rights [...]

It’s Monday and that means that it is time for another episode of the Copyright 2.0 Show. Once again I team up with Chris Matthieu from Numly to bring to you the latest in copyright news as it relates to the Web as well as more general information on copyright law itself.
This week we [...]