New technology doesn’t mean that the laws don’t apply.
A song written when Grover Cleveland was President is still protected by Copyright Law. That makes no sense at all.
An object lesson in the problems with our intellectual property laws
Academic publishers want to end the Fair Use of scholarly journal articles in the classroom.
So, Kodak is suing Shutterfly because it claims to have invented the idea of putting pictures on the Internet.
The American copyright system is broken. Cory Doctorow offers some useful suggestions for fixing it.