For a Web host, handling abuse is a messy matter. It is important to have a strategy ready to keep spammers at bay, qualify for safe harbor protection under the DMCA and generally keep your site from becoming a cesspool. However, having helped with abuse-related matters, I know well that it can descend into a [...]
If you need help with a specific case of plagiarism or another legal issue common to bloggers, here is your chance to get some fast, free help.
It’s been another crazy week of copyright news and, as usual, Chris and I try to sum it all up in one short hour of humor, news and views.
The same copyright system that allows the RIAA to go on a rampage of lawsuits and empowers movie studios to cripple fair use of their work is tying the hands of small copyright holders on the Web.
Worst hit of all are the bloggers, who often endure the worst kinds of infringement only to discover [...]
As the issue of plagiarism and content theft draws more and more attention on the web, in particular among bloggers, several Webmasters are posting their experiences with content theft and some intrepid writers are producing their own guides for fighting content theft on the Web.
Though the attention to this issue is welcome, many of these [...]
A New York Federal judge has ruled that printouts from the Internet Archive are inadmissible as evidence in a court of law unless the party trying to enter it can produce “authenticating testimony from someone familiar with how the pages were created?.
The judge’s order officially struck the pages from the record and removed the printouts [...]
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