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Digital Millennium Copyright Act 
39 posts and columns on Digital Millennium Copyright Act
Viacom and Google Pick Up the Gloves, Again
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.
Why the MP3Tunes Case Is a Big Deal You Won’t Notice
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 …
Turntable.fm Pulls a Pandora by Booting International Users
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.
Turntable.fm Really Is Awesome. Is It Legal?
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.
Here's Your iTunes in the Cloud, for Your iPhone–But From mSpot, Not Apple
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.
Apple on Jailbreak Ruling: Go Ahead and Brick Your iPhone. See If We Care.
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.
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An Emancipation Proclamation for the iPhone
With a single pen stroke, it looks like the federal government may have blown the closed Apple iPhone ecosystem wide open (at least for the tinkering crowd). In their periodic updating of exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act’s prohibitions again circumventing copyright protections, the Librarian of Congress and the Copyright Office today ruled that it is lawful for mobile phone users to “jailbreak” their devices in order to use apps not approved by the manufacturer and to unlock their phones in order to change carriers (though there are barriers other than the DMCA to both practices). More on this to come as we await comment from Apple, which had maintained that jailbreaking was illegal, although it has never pressed the issue in court.Google Wins YouTube Copyright Suit; Viacom Promises Appeal
Google has won its long-running case against Viacom, which accused the search giant’s YouTube of massive copyright infringement. Viacom promises to appeal the federal court ruling, which says that the video site is indeed protected by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. It’s a really big deal.
Silicon Valley Backs YouTube in Viacom Case
Google and YouTube have some powerful new allies in their pitched battle with Viacom: Yahoo, Facebook and eBay. Earlier this week, the three companies filed amicus briefs in support of Google and YouTube, which are defending themselves against a $1 billion copyright lawsuit by Viacom.
YouTube and Viacom Find Lots of Emails, but No Smoking Gun
The YouTube-Viacom documents released today are chock full of interesting morsels. Feel free to ignore most of them.