News tagged with copyright management

YouTube buys US-based music rights company

YouTube said Friday it has acquired RightsFlow, a New York-based company which manages music rights for songwriters, recording artists, record labels and online music services.

Technology / Internet

created Dec 09, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Singapore's SPH sues Yahoo! in copyright row

Asian media group Singapore Press Holdings is suing Yahoo! for copyright infringement, accusing the US Internet giant of reproducing its news items without permission.

Technology / Business

created Nov 23, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scribd turns page from document sharing to selling

(AP) -- Hoping to do for the written word what iTunes did for music, the online document-sharing service Scribd is opening an Internet store that will offer new sales opportunities for authors and publishers, ...

Technology / Internet

created May 18, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Does anti-piracy software on video games open security risks on users' computers?

(PhysOrg.com) -- Computer scientist Alex Halderman wants to know if antipiracy software built into Spore and other video games makes computers more vulnerable to hackers. To find out, he might have to break the law.

Technology / Computer Sciences

created May 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1




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Pirate party makes a raid on German politics

(AP) -- Pirates are capturing Germany's political system. The party with the outlaw name started as a marginal club of computer nerds and hackers demanding online freedom, but its appeal as an antiestablishment ...

Technology / Other

created Apr 29, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (10) | comments 37

Hollywood studios lose landmark download case

Top Hollywood film studios Friday failed in their attempt to stem the flow of illegal downloads when they lost a landmark appeal against an Australian Internet provider.

Technology / Internet

created Apr 20, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 5

For the stock market, it's all about Apple

(AP) -- For most of the year, Apple has propelled the Nasdaq forward. In the past few days, it's done just the opposite.

Technology / Business

created Apr 16, 2012 | popularity 1.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Apple's 'iPad' is the only tablet people know

(AP) -- Apple is on the verge of doing what few others have: change the English language. When you have a boo-boo, you reach for a Band-Aid not a bandage. When you need to blow your nose, you ask for Kleenex ...

Technology / Business

created Apr 08, 2012 | popularity 1.7 / 5 (9) | comments 18

Kim Dotcom's money won him New Zealand residency

(AP) -- In the eyes of New Zealand immigration authorities in 2010, Kim Dotcom's money trumped his criminal past.

Technology / Business

created Mar 13, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Reading more into open access

For many years, the traditional method to access researchers’ scholarly works, particularly in the sciences and social sciences, has been through paid subscriptions to journals. But in recent years, a ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Mar 08, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

A wild online ride hits the digital piracy wall

On his way up, he fooled them all: judges, journalists, investors and companies. Then the man who renamed himself Kim Dotcom finally did it. With an outsized ego and an eye for get-rich schemes, he parlayed ...

Technology / Internet

created Feb 25, 2012 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (14) | comments 12

HTML5 spec editor slams Google & gang's DRM bid

(PhysOrg.com) -- A draft proposal by Google, Microsoft and Netflix to introduce mechanisms for copy protection on web videos has generated strong opposition and a response that the proposal is "unethical." ...

Technology / Internet

created Feb 25, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (21) | comments 13 | with audio podcast report

Youth shaping future of online TV, movies, music

(AP) -- Young people want their music, TV and movies now - even if it means they get these things illegally.

Technology / Internet

created Feb 19, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Academics line up to boycott world's biggest journal publisher

Dozens of Australian academics have joined a growing boycott of Elsevier, one of the world’s leading publishers of academic journals, over the behemoth’s “extortionate efforts to extract money” ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Feb 15, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 4


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