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On Monday, President Bush signed the controversial ProIP bill into law, which will create a 'copyright czar' position within the White House and raise the potential fines for copyright infringements.

At the Dow Jones and Nielsen Media and Money conference in New York today, Viacom and CBS chairman Sumner Redstone pulled out all the stops in defending the sanctity of

On Saturday, German Chancellor Angela Merkel used her weekly video podcast to attack Google and the Google Book Settlement. According to Merkel, the Google Book Settlement disregards international copyright laws.

Google today announced that it has reached a deal with book publishers to settle two copyright lawsuits over potential copyright violations in its Google Book Search product. This $125 million

According to research group Ipsos Reid's "Social Networking: 2009" poll, Canadians are flocking to social networking sites. In the last 18 months, the percentage of Canucks with a social

Our good friends over at TechDirt discovered an interesting anomaly and enormous security hole in BayTSP's website today. BayTSP, a Los Gatos, CA-based company, is best known for putting the

Today, a regional court in Germany ruled that Google is violating German copyright law by displaying thumbnail previews of copyrighted images. German photographer Michael Bernhard and cartoonist Thomas Horn had

As reported in the LA Times' technology blog, the launch of Antigua-based media tweetmeme_url = 'http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/gad-zookz_wto_to_allow_copyright_infringement.php'; tweetmeme_source = 'rww'; download site Zookz has raised the ire of the US trade

The founder and some staff of a directory site called TV Links was arrested this weekend and the site was shut down by British police. Tv-links.co.uk listed links to other

We interviewed Google's Derek Slater at the SanFran MusicTech Summit yesterday. Slater is a Policy Analyst at Google and in our interview he discusses net neutrality, copyright and other public