Fox News Doesn’t Understand Fair Use; Or the Web

Fair use laws, which, among other things, allow for people to take clips from broadcast TV and add their own commentary, have been an important part of the development...

Mattel Ucreate Music, Games Capitalizes on Your Kids' Creativity [Toys]

Mattel's hanging its hopes on kids making their own fun with its Ucreate brand. Ucreate Music turns your tweens into amateur djs while Ucreate Games gets them started...

Students, law prof want RIAA trial live and online

The group of Harvard Law students defending one Joel Tenenbaum in an RIAA lawsuit have an unusual request for the judge: they want the whole case streamed live over th...

UK music industry owes an awful lot to digital downloads

RIAA.Change.Gov?

How’s this for “Change”? President-elect Barack Obama named four former Clinton administration officials to leadership posts in the Justice Department Wednesday,...

Law prof wants to webcast RIAA lawsuit

Campaigning law prof Charlie Nesson wants the whole world to see how the RIAA shakes down students, so he's asked for the proceedings to be webcast. The RIAA wants to ...

MediaSentry may be gone, but RIAA tactics will live on

While the RIAA has dropped long-time P2P investigator MediaSentry, the music industry actually needs such services now more than ever. Denmark-based DtecNet will be ha...

RIAA dumps evidence-gathering firm

Recording industry trade group reportedly drops the company responsible for gathering evidence against those accused of sharing copyrighted music.

RIAA Drops MediaSentry

The RIAA has dumped the company it used to help it gather evidence for mass lawsuits it filed against people it claimed were illegally uploading copyrighted music.

Gizmodo's Most Popular Hits of 2008 [Best Of Gizmodo]

What a year, roller coaster from beginning to end, and tons of amazing stories. In case you missed any of them, here they are: The most popular stories for 2008, plus ...