Arguing before the Second Circuit yesterday, Viacom renewed its $1 billion copyright infringement claim against YouTube. The colossal claim was first launched in 2007, and turns on the interpretation of the the Digital Millennium Copyright Act’s safe harbor provisions. According to the DMCA, a website like YouTube is liable for infringement only when it has “actual knowledge” that a user has posted [...]

Charges have been dropped in the federal trial of a California man charged with violating the anti-circumvention provisions of the Digitial Millenium Copyright Act (the “DMCA”). The trial revitalized the issue of whether video game console modification should be exempted from the anti-circumvention provisions of the act.  Andrew “Bunnie” Huang, author of the bookHacking the [...]