Google and Copyright Issues

Posted on 23rd July 201631st July 2016 by majesticjam

On April 18, 2016 the US Supreme Court declined an appeal from the Authors Guild that accused Google of copyright infringement for scanning their books (Kravets, 2016). Despite the decision of the US top court was made in favour of Google, there are still acute debates about its correctness and the correct interpretation of ‘fair[…]

New ways to stop digital piracy without annoying paying customers

Posted on 21st July 201631st July 2016 by majesticjam

There is nothing to do with piracy. After multiple unsuccessful attempts to fight with this phenomenon by calling infringers for the law-abiding, companies have turned to Digital Right Management (DRM) that slightly ‘slow pirates and annoys paying customers’ (Bellamy, 2012). Taking into account that DRM doesn’t work, it also significantly limits turns any technology into[…]