The Federal Labor Relations Board has settled a lawsuit brought against a Connecticut ambulance company that disciplined an employee for criticizing a boss on Facebook. The ambulance company had policies in place that included employees not being allowed to talk… Read More
Category: fair
What Breaking Electronic Locks Means to the Blind
The Library of Congress, in a regular review of digital copyright laws, made a few adjustments last week. They declared that jailbreaking a device is perfectly legal, that breaking code on games is okay for certain purposes (to fix bugs,… Read More
How Would They Know My Music is (or isn’t) Legal?
An article surfaced today in an Australian newspaper regarding Australian customs officials being asked by the U.S. State Department to participate in checking traveler’s iPods and laptops for pirated music. My question is, how would they know if it was… Read More
If you have not made a comment you still have a few hours
From the EFF Today is the last day to submit proposals (by 5p EST) to the Copyright Office seeking a 3-year DMCA exemption for noninfringing activities that are otherwise squelched by “digital rights management” (DRM) restrictions [EFF]
Rent my DVR!
Missed recording some shows on your DVR don’t worry head over to Rent my DVR. People are asking some of the obvious copyright questions but apparently the site has been up for a while and people are able to put… Read More
Saw this in my referal logs from Podscope?
Not sure what to think of this. When you click on this link you leave my site go to Podscope, and then my podcast page loads in a frame on their domain and they have something funky on the bottom… Read More
WIPO Treaty!
I found some information tonight that made my mouth fall open in disbelief. I have been hammering away at you folks for a while on Fair Use and talking about the evils of the DMCA. Little did I realize the… Read More