Facebook resisted a few days longer than MySpace but finally has given in to the RIAA’s demands that the Project Playlist app be removed for copyright violation.

Wednesday, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reversed a lower court ruling and held that licenses such as Creative Commons (CC) licenses set conditions on the use of copyrighted work as opposed to covenants.

Publishers commonly profit from the creative works of their freelance contributors not only in the traditional print format, but increasingly digitally through websites, databases, and multimedia output and through syndication and sales to third parties publishers. More enlightened publishers make provision for this in the contract with their freelancers and pay royalties on such secondary and tertiary practices, but this is not common practice.

The largest U.S. record companies will bring a suit against illegal downloads to court for the first time Tuesday. Jennifer Pariser, head of litigation and antipiracy at Sony BMG, portrayed the federal copyright trial as a fight for survival.

The launched much-anticipated digital music store with nearly 2.3 million songs is not protected against copying. The store, Amazon MP3, lets shoppers buy and download individual songs or entire albums. The tracks can be copied to multiple computers, burned onto CDs and played on most types of PCs and portable devices, including Apple Inc.'s iPod and Microsoft Corp.'s Zune.

Vivendi's Universal Music Group, the world's largest music label, will test the sale of songs from artists such as Amy Winehouse, 50 Cent and the Black Eyed Peas, without customary copy-protection technology.

A new digital watermarking system not only protects music and media files from online pirates but also ensures that the quality for legitimate users is as good as it gets.

Microsoft supports government anti-piracy actions to prevent modified chips in game consoles.

The U.S. Congressional International Anti-Piracy Caucus has put China and Russia at the top of its 2007 watch list of countries where rampant copyright piracy continues, and where governments refuse to take adequate action against violators. VOA's Stephanie Ho reports from Washington.

It seems that soon copyright dispute between Belgian newspapers and Google Inc. will be over. They said that both are involved in "constructive dialogue" and even have agreed that the search engine can link to new stories on the newspapers' web sites.

Sony Corporation today announced "CLEFIA", a new highly secure and efficient block cipher algorithm that delivers advanced copyright protection and authentication, which is essential in the growing environment of digital data distribution, such as music and images