DRM (Digital Rights Management)

EDUCAUSE Library Items for DRM (Digital Rights Management)

The Next Great Copyright Act

March 20, 2013

On March 20, 2013, Register of Copyrights, Maria Pallante, testified before the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet where she advocate…

Unintended Consequences: 12 Years Under the DMCA

March 3, 2010

This is the sixth update to the report, which aims to catalog all the reported instances where the DMCA's ban on tampering with DRM have been abused to stymie fair use, free speech, and comp…

Digital Books and Your Rights: A Checklist for Readers

February 24, 2010

After several years of false starts, the universe of digital books seems at last poised to expand dramatically. Readers should view this expansion with both excitement and wariness. Excitement be…

UCLA Streaming Video Case Dismissed

October 5, 2011

On Monday, October 3 rd , a federal judge in Los Angeles dismissed the copyright infringement lawsuit brought by AIME (Association for Information Media and Equipment, whose members includ…

Naughty Bit

July 6, 2007

© 2007 Steve Worona. The text of this article is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 License ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ ).…

Fighting to protect copyright 'orphans'

January 1, 2007

"An effort among Internet activists to halt the extension of copyright protections for orphan works--out-of-print books and media--was dealt a setback last week by a U.S. appeals court decisio…

Strong Copyright + DRM + Weak Net Neutrality = Digital Dystopia?

January 1, 2006

Three critical issues - dramatic expansion of the scope, duration, and punitive nature of copyright laws; the ability of Digital Rights Management (DRM) systems to lock-down digital content in an u…

Hollywood vs. Your PC: Round 2

January 1, 2006

"Legal options in digital entertainment are growing. But they come with restrictions that can hobble your ability to enjoy the content you've paid for--and even threaten your control over…

British Library Calls for Digital Copyright Action

January 1, 2006

The British Library has called for a wide-scale revision of existing copyright law, which, it said, inadequately addresses digital content, putting too much control into the hands of content produc…

The Digital Learning Challenge: Obstacles to Educational Uses of Copyrighted Material in the Digital Age

January 1, 2006

The study explores whether innovative educational uses of digital technology – everything from DVDs in the classroom to digital music libraries to online resources such as Wikipedia -- are hamper…