Copyright, DMCA, and public interest: House Judiciary Committee to conduct ‘comprehensive review’ of U.S. copyright law

April 24, 2013 4:17 PM John Koetsier
John Koetsier

"The DMCA's unintended consequences on our rights to modify and repair the electronics we buy, and to remix and make fair use of copyright content could easily be fixed as part of a larger Copyright reform act."

Shockingly, you can’t just lift photos off Twitter and sell them

January 16, 2013 8:48 AM John Koetsier
John Koetsier

Photographer Daniel Morel took riveting photos of the devastation caused by the January 2010 earthquake in Haiti. So riveting that the Agence France-Presse took them off Twitter and actually uploaded them to Getty Images.

Swedes say file-sharing is a new religion

January 5, 2012 12:09 PM Jolie O'Dell
Jolie O'Dell

Sweden has recognized file-sharing as a legitimate, officially sanctioned religion.

The Church of Kopimism (Get it? “Copy”-mism?) was recognized by the state just before Christmas.

Laugh if you like, but the “free-as-in-freedom” and copyleft crowds have long had a quasi-religious …