Big media and tech companies unveil their copyright coalition
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An alliance of technology and media companies releases a set of principles for promoting user-generated content while protecting copyright online.
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Companies say they want to encourage growth of user-generated content online without violating the copyrights of the content owners.
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LONDON - Six large technology and music companies announced Monday they have banded together in an attempt to bring some interoperability to the DRM (digital rights management) systems protecting digital content such as music and movies within the next nine months.
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Should creators insist on copy protection and other technologies to block the unauthorized spread of their works? That's the first question in a week-long debate on Bits between Rick Cotton, the general counsel of NBC Universal, and Tim Wu, a professor at Columbia Law School.
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The patents needed for an overarching Digital Rights Management (DRM) system for protecting digital music, video, and software from illegal file sharing over mobile devices have been successfully pooled together, the film and music technology company MPEG LA announced Thursday.
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Warner Music Group Corp. has agreed to distribute and license its copyrighted songs and other material through online video trendsetter YouTube Inc., marking another significant step in the entertainment industry's migration to the Internet.
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Google is forming partnerships with hundreds of smaller media companies that see value in contributing to the site.
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Founders of TorrentSpy, a BitTorrent search-engine and tracker-hosting site currently under legal assault from Hollywood studios, have launched a new company called FileRights designed to help copyright owners keep their content from being shared or indexed online, the new company announced Monday.
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By Associated Press  MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- A coalition of technology companies and environmental groups led by Google Inc. and Intel Corp.
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An impressive coalition of media companies on Thursday will release a list of guidelines for protecting copyrights online, according to The Journal.
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A new political action committee supports candidates who speak for the consumer when it comes to copyright law. The group doesn't have the big bucks of the entertainment companies, but it's just getting started. By Katie Dean.
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The two companies have joined BitTorrent Device Partners, a licensing program aimed at creating devices that work with the file sharing service.
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Until earlier this week, some electronics companies were wielding the Digital Millenium Copyright Act -- a law that tries to curtail piracy of music and movies -- as a shield to protect their businesses from competition.
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A new agreement between a peer-to-peer network and the major music labels has created the first peer-to-peer file sharing network for licensed digital music.
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NEITHER APPLE nor Microsoft will join a consortium formed today to address digital rights management for music and films. But the Coral Consortium has heavyweight firms Sony, Samsung, Philips, Matsushita, HP and 20th Century Fox backing their plans.
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Copyright cabal ahead A large group of media giants is poised to announce a new system for copyrighting content on t'internet.â¦
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Technologies that let people record satellite and Internet radio broadcasts digitally are opening a new front in the recording industry's war on music piracy. This has given the music industry a new problem to worry about.