Free legal advice for open-source developers. A new law center will offer pro bono legal advice for non-profit open-source organizations. The Software Freedom Law Center, operated by a Columbia University law professor, will employ 2 additional full-time IP attorneys to provide consulting services....

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German IT site barred from linking to CD-burning software site. A German court has issued a writ, ordering IT site Heise Online to remove links pointing to slysoft.com, sellers of CD and DVD burning software. The court cited German copyright law which prohibits anyone from promoting anything that c...

Yes, Rat, deja vu all over again It's good to be back on a forum where I can discuss these issues.

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[This is an updated and modified version of a piece that I had contributed to filebreech.com last year. ---Prog] Some common myths and misconceptions about copyright law and file sharing. There are many misconceptions surrounding copyright law and its effect on file sharing. I hope this clears up s...

RIAA sues another batch of file-sharers.

This latest round of filings names 717 new defendants, as the campaign to alienate music consumers continues. The group includes 68 users at universities. Sadly, these news stories of new lawsuits are becoming routine.

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Norwegian Supreme Court upholds damage award against file-sharing student. The high court ruled that the student, who had set up the napster.no site (no connection with napster.com) must pay the court-ordered compensation. The site had been a school project for the student, offering links to .mp3 f...

I will use this thread to post news stories from the legal world that affect file-sharing, and other related topics. Feel free to add stuff that you find.

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This is a question that is asked by many people, newbies and experienced users alike. It has been the topic of much discussion. With the legal assaults on file-sharing, it seems that more and more P2P users are choosing to "play it safe" and not share. File-sharing is…wellÃÂ...

DRM has been quite a bone of contention between The Entertainment Cartel and consumers in recent years. This includes CDs with various copy-protection schemes (clever insertion of errors into the disc to make it unrippable), and the dizzying array of incompatible proprietary music file formats (iTun...