Court makes a hash of online storage

Copyright Most of the initial post-game commentary on the U.S. District Judge William Pauley III’s long-awaited order in the  MP3tunes case (embedded below) has focused on the court’s finding on whether the online music locker service qualifies for the safe harbor protections in the DMCA, and its implications for other would-be cloud storage services (basically it Read More …

Ripping yarns

Copyright The British government on Wednesday released its long-awaited set of proposals for updating U.K. copyright law for the twenty-first century. Sort of. The actual report (PDF) might best be described as notional, or perhaps aspirational — a set of ideas the government is publicly endorsing but with formal legislative language to follow later, sometimes much later. Read More …