In our first episode, Marvel sued NCSoft and Cryptic Studios, makers of the role-playing game "City of Heroes," claiming the game allowed users playing superheroes to infringe unspecified Marvel copyrights and trademarks. NCSoft filed a motion to dismiss the compaint.
Flip ahead to episode 3, Marvel's...

We loved that this NYT piece reported on EFF's high-definition TV PVR build-ins. We hated that the highly unfortunate title, "Steal This Show," suggests that recording TV programs using a homebrew HDTV PVR is somehow tantamount to stealing. Not surprisingly, so did Public Knowledge's Mike Godwin. Today,...

Ed Felten today asks Hollywood to quit shedding crocodile tears over profits "lost" to Internet-enabled piracy -- at least while it continues to make more money than ever, while denying movie stars (the "artist") a more sizable cut:

[Surging profits] undercut the industry's rent-seeking in Washington, which relies...

An intrepid group gathered at EFF Saturday to make the most of the window before the broadcast flag mandate by building our own HD PVRs.
Using open source MythTV and the pcHDTV HD-3000, we assembled personal video recorders to rival TiVo -- without the restrictions...

Among the many briefs supporting Hollywood and the music industry in MGM v. Grokster is one from the National Association of Broadcasters. The NAB represents broadcasters (not cable or satellite-casters, just the ones with free FCC licenses, granted in the name of the "public interest").
Its take...

James Madison understood that "a popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it is but a prologue to a farce or tragedy or perhaps both." Legal protections for media sources and unpublished information are critical means for journalists of all stripes to acquire information and communicate it...