WASHINGTON, February 9, 2011 – A recent report commissioned by NBC Universal shows that if given the opportunity, consumers prefer to obtain content online legally.
LOS ANGELES, February 8, 2011 -- Five of the major motion picture studios in the United States on Tuesday launched the next phase of their industry's...
The murky status of rights clearance is bamboozling the Japanese publishing industry's efforts to move into the eBook market even as start-ups take matters into their...
NEW YORK, February 2, 2011 -- The Department of Homeland Security on Tuesday seized the domain names of 10 web sites that officials said were illegally...
WASHINGTON, February 1, 2011 - A group of non-profit organizations filed a brief in federal district court Tuesday, opposing an injunction that would pull Internet rebroadcaster,...
SAN FRANCISCO, January 27, 2011 -- Prize-winning science student and renowned hacker George Hotz was temporarily banned Wednesday from disseminating code that allows PlayStation 3 owners...
The CEOs of some of the largest and most influential U.S. technology companies made the guest list at a gala White House state dinner held in...
China's "indigenous innovation" policies, and other trade issues with the United States will be in the spotlight Wednesday when both President Barack Obama and Chinese president...
A reknowned hacker and 21-year-old whiz kid who was the first to unlock an iPhone says in a Thursday cable television interview that Sony’s lawsuit against...
Chinese officials vowed to step up the government's copyright enforcement this week ahead of Chinese President Hu Jintao's visit to Washington, DC next week.
WASHINGTON, January 13, 2011 - Congress can't get away from controversial copyright- and patent-related issues, said panelsts at the first Intellectual Property Breakfast Club of the...
WASHINGTON, January 7, 2011 – The Washington-based internet and intellectual property policy news and events service, BroadbandBreakfast.com, http://broadbandbreakfast.com, announces its Winter 2011 series of events (January...
The Electronic Frontier Foundation on Monday formally named the members of its new intellectual property litigation team, bringing on board Yahoo's senior legal director for copyright...
On Friday, the Library of Congress announced that it has put Senior Adviser Maria Pallante in charge as the current Register Marybeth Peters retires at the...
The Copyright Alliance on Monday named Sandra Aistars as its executive director. Aistars succeeds the group's Founder Patrick Ross, a well-respected Washington, D.C. technology journalist who...
The Motion Picture Association of America on Monday announced that it has hired Karen Thorland as vice president and senior content protection counsel.
Late into the night at the end of November, a text message woke up Waleed A. Gad El Kareem, an open-source web developer in Alexandria, Egypt....
Government officials from both the United States and China on Wednesday said that they had made progress on several key issues that had been on the...
Harvard's student newspaper on Monday endorsed the way that the movie industry has approached the phenomenon of illegal downloading at university campuses, calling it "a sensible...
For all of the tough talk coming out of Congress as the United States and China embark on a high profile trade summit today, a confidential...
As requested by the U.S. Senate Finance Committee, the U.S. International Trade Commission on Monday released the first of two comprehensive reports detailing the impact of...
A Clinton administration architect of a digital age copyright law, a former solicitor general for the United States, and an army of content industry associations on...
WASHINGTON, December 7, 2010 – The internet and intellectual property policy news and events service BroadbandBreakfast.com is postponing its December breakfast , “China & Intellectual Property...
Google’s YouTube isn’t eligible for the Digital Millennium Copyright Act’s safe harbor provisions because its founders deliberately built the business on pirated content, according to media...
The acting chief of the Motion Picture Association of America says that he was "encouraged" by Google's recent announcement about technical changes it is making to...
Justice Samuel Alito told his colleagues last week that they missed a rare opportunity to clarify copyright law in the digital age when they declined to...
Russian authorities have quietly dropped their piracy charges against an environmental group that had been critical of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's environmental record after Microsoft...
Direct, personal relationships without lawyers as intermediaries appears to be one of the keys to Netflix's runaway success with its online movie streaming service, according to...
Swedish online music streaming start-up Spotify is under pressure to launch in the United States, according to the Financial Times.
The Denver Post is apparently trying to prop up its web site traffic by reminding readers of what the legal concept of fair-use really means.
Oracle's high-profile white-collar legal counsel David Boies on Monday told a jury in Oakland that it should award the company $1.7 billion in damages because rival...
WASHINGTON, November 19, 2010 - The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday unanimously approved legislation that would provide the U.S. Justice Department with enhanced powers to...
SAN FRANCISCO, November 18th, 2010 -- The U.S. Senate's latest battle plan against intellectual property piracy online could gain traction and be approved by the body's...
WASHINGTON, November 11, 2010 - The French copyright authority HADOPI -- and what lessons it presented for America's approach to copyright piracy -- was the key...
WASHINGTON, November 9, 2010 – The Motion Picture Association of America has notified the United States Trade Representative as to what it believes are the most...
WASHINGTON, November 4, 2010 – The internet and intellectual property policy news and events service BroadbandBreakfast.com invites the public to its FREE November event in its...
French authorities have started to send out warning letters to individuals suspected of copyright infringement online, and a whole cottage industry of lawyers and technologists has...
Five of Russia's largest internet companies have called for an update of its copyright laws, according to the wire news service Agence France Press. "We believe...
Google has partnered with three digital music providers to launch a new online music service to increase broadband usage and stave off internet piracy, according to...
China's official newspaper recently criticized Apple's iPAD because users must pay for music and movies, according to a recent report in The Christian Science Monitor.