Retailers such as Apple and Amazon market digital media to consumers using the familiar language of product ownership, including phrases like “buy now,” “own,”

Enforcing copyright protection in the digital age has become complex. South Africa should tread carefully as it amends its copyright laws.

Tech giants will fall, and culture will be lost.

After years of debate over the Library of Congress' failure to adapt to changing digital technology, the resignation of its longest-serving Librarian represents a new opportunity to move into the digital age.

An example of legally-purchased content disappearing as systems stop supporting it.

When Green Mountain Coffee Roasters announced its quarterly financial results last week, the news was bad for the company—but good for people who...

Speaking with a wide variety of publishers at the San Diego Comic-Con revealed different reactions to DRM-free comics, in-app purchases, storytelling and more as the industry adapts to Amazon's acquisition of Comixology.

Ay, we must die an everlasting death. What doctrine call you this, Che sera, sera, What will be, shall be? Divinity, adieu! – The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus, Christopher Marlowe To evoke Fa…

I understand the pressure to support commercial video – but the browser makers can do more to defend free and open software. By Cory Doctorow

Green Mountain fixates on controlling the coffee pod market.

Adobe has issued a proclamation that starting in July, the vast majority of e-reader apps and hardware devices will not be able to read purchased eBooks anymore. This announcement stems from a massive upgrade to the encryption system Adobe has implemented in their new Digital Editions 3.0 and will have reverberating effects on ePub books all over the world. Unless thousands of app developers and e-reader companies update their firmware and programming, customers will basically be unable to read books they have legitimately purchased. In effect, Adobe is killing eBooks and e-readers. Adobe will be lobbying e-reader companies and app

DRM is one of the most salient, and least understood, facts about technology in the contemporary world

Adobe you JERKS.

A clever statement on both digital media, and a nascent world where physical designs can always be copied, thanks to 3-D printing.

On Monday, the W3C announced that its Director, Tim Berners-Lee, had determined that the "playback of protected content" was in scope for the W3C HTML Working Group's new charter, overriding EFF's