I never meant to cause you any trouble, I never meant to cause you any pain The opening lines of Purple Rain serve to sum up the challenges faced by innovative SMEs around the world, seeking to protect their investments with IP. At the Internet Governance Forum, no one means [...]
Happy International Talk Like a Pirate Day!
While talking like a pirate (“Ahoy, matey!”) might be fun and games, ACTING like a pirate by stealing or sharing music, movies, and software is not. Many people think that piracy is an issue that only affects large software, music, and movie companies, but as we have seen from recent reports, small- and medium-sized businesses are preyed upon as well.
The Business Software Alliance’s new impact study on software piracy was released this week and we’re happy to see that it supports what we’ve been saying all along: protecting IP means creating jobs.
As this cartoon points out, the iPhone apps business isn’t all fame and fortune. Customers who don’t hesitate spending $5 on a quick, fancy cup of coffee think twice before paying less than a quarter of that for an app that may give them hours or days of enjoyment and [...]
The Librarian of Congress and the Register of Copyright conducted another thorough review of requested exemptions to the DMCA and issued six new well-reasoned exemptions. ACT believes the exemptions issued demonstrate the flexibility of the DMCA to adequately protect copyright owners, provide incentives for new innovation, and enable consumers and [...]
