Ina Fried in Mobile on November 14, 2013 at 2:57 pm PT
Act by the holidays or face FCC action, Tom Wheeler says in a letter to the cellphone trade group CTIA.
Ina Fried in Mobile on March 7, 2013 at 10:45 am PT
Senators on both sides of the aisle have introduced a bill that would support the right of cellphone owners to unlock their devices.
Ina Fried in Mobile on March 4, 2013 at 10:51 am PT
The man behind the petition to re-legalize unlocking of cellphones now has a broader target: The Digital Millenium Copyright Act itself.
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Alexandra Cheney, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on September 27, 2012 at 3:24 pm PT
Cindy Lee Garcia, an actress in the anti-Muslim film “Innocence of Muslims” refiled her case in federal court Wednesday after an unsuccessful attempt last week to convince a California state judge to order YouTube to remove the movie.
Peter Kafka in Media on October 18, 2011 at 3:00 am PT
The YouTube copyright case — now more than four years old — won’t go away. In the real world, though, most media companies have made their peace with the world’s biggest video site.
Peter Kafka in Media on August 23, 2011 at 7:26 am PT
Had it gone the other way, EMI’s lawsuit against Michael Robertson and his music locker could have been a problem for Google and Amazon. And maybe YouTube and Tumblr and lots of other Web services. But since it didn’t …
Peter Kafka in Media on June 27, 2011 at 5:53 am PT
The red-hot music service is only a few months old, but it’s already growing up: It’s ditching non-U.S. users in order to give itself a fighting chance of surviving in the U.S.
Peter Kafka in Media on June 21, 2011 at 4:00 am PT
How did a start-up finally convince the music labels to let people share music with each other for free? Turntable didn’t. This could be interesting.
Peter Kafka in Media on December 15, 2010 at 6:00 am PT
Google and Apple both want to move your music to the cloud, then back to your phone, but they haven’t done it yet. But little mSpot has, at least for now.
John Paczkowski in Mobile on July 27, 2010 at 8:45 am PT
Sure, jailbreaking your iPhone no longer violates the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, but that doesn’t mean Apple supports it. So if you want to modify your iPhone to run unauthorized software, you’re welcome to do so, but not without risk or consequence. As Apple reminds us today, jailbreaking voids the iPhone’s warranty, which could prove problematic if your tinkering bricks it.