The notice-and-takedown system created by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act provides an essential safe harbor for online services to innovate. Without it, content companies would be constantly filing even more copyright suits against online services like YouTube, Flickr, Facebook, and Pinterest, and those sites would likely be unable to exist in the face of such liability. However, this is not a two-sided issue. By only looking at copyright holders and online services, we neglect the interests of the most populous sector involved in copyright law: the public.

Bill allows DRM circumvention for cell phone unlocking and other lawful purposes.

It was hard to believe, but the student insisted it was true. He had discovered that compact discs from a major record company, Sony BMG, were...

The anti-circumvention section of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act threatens to make archivists felons if they try to preserve our society's artifacts for future generations.

Obama refutes Library of Congress, calls unlocking crucial for consumer choice.

The U.S. Congress is considering the Protect IP Act and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). MythBuster Adam Savage says that if these sweeping pieces of legislation pass, the U.S. will join the likes of China and Iran in censoring the Internet.

Five top security experts say that the PROTECT IP Act's domain name  …

Every three years, the Library of Congress approves a handful of exemptions to …