Congress can outlaw boot-leg recordings: Court
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U.S. Congress criminalizing boot-leg  recordings of music performers is constitutional and does not  conflict with copyright laws, a federal appeals court ruled on  Wednesday in a decision that reopened charges against a New  York record store owner.
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Exclusive: In a setback for the prosecution of file sharers, Capitol Records is ordered to pay most of a P2P defendant's legal fees. In Listening Post.
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A federal judge yesterday declared unconstitutional and blocked a law that allows the FBI to force companies to turn over Internet and telephone records to fight terrorism and bars the companies from disclosing the searches.
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U.S. lawmakers have dropped a legislative provision that would have substantially raised fines for indecent antics on broadcast radio and television, congressional aides said on Friday.
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Recording the movie at a movie theater using a video camera could be made into a federal case. The House of Representatives passed a bill to make using video camera to record movies in cinemas a federal crime with a punishment of up to six years in pri...
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A federal judge yesterday tossed out bootlegging charges against a Chelsea record-store owner accused of trafficking in underground recordings of live concerts.
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WASHINGTON Â The Justice Department has asked the Supreme Court to toss out a lower court ruling that says the FBI was wrong to raid Democratic Rep. William Jefferson's office, a decision the Bush administration argues will hinder corruption investigations of Congress.
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The government is violating the First Amendment by embarking on a "radical reinterpretation and expansion" of its power to punish broadcasters for indecent speech, a federal court was told yesterday by Fox Television Stations Inc.
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Using video cameras to record films in movie theaters would become a federal crime punishable by up to six years in prison under a bill passed Tuesday by the House.    The legislation, called the Piracy Deterrence and Education Act, also would make it easier for the Justice Department to prosecute Internet users who illegally distribute large amounts of music and other copyrighted works...
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Movie studios and record labels on  Friday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a ruling that  Internet "peer to peer" networks cannot be held liable when  their users copy music and movies without permission.
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A federal judge ruled that the police must stop the routine videotaping of people at public gatherings.
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A U.S. district judge struck down the section of the act that requires telephone and ISPs to turn over records to the government without telling customers.
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A judge on Friday rejected part of a lawsuit requesting Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee turn over backup tapes from computer hard drives he ordered destroyed before leaving the Arkansas governor's office.
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Legislators, regulators and the phone industry are all considering ways to clamp down on unauthorized releases of phone records like those in the Hewlett-Packard case.
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A federal judge ruled Wednesday that a part of the US Patriot Act that allows the FBI to demand company records from businesses without court approval is unconstitutional.
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Audio and video tapes of Mel Gibson's drunken driving arrest are exempt from the California Public Records Act and won't be released, authorities said, despite requests from a celebrity news Web site.
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A US federal appeals court yesterday upheld a district court ruling in favor of an individual whose e-mail records were copied by government investigators from servers at Yahoo and another ISP. In so doing, the court may have prevented the government from loosely applying a key tool in its ability to obtain e-mail records without a warrant: the Stored Communications Act.