In a move to merge copyleft ideals with a repository of 1 million articles from the last decade of publishing, The Guardian wants to give Web site and application developers everything it has written ...

DUBLIN, Ireland --Software that is placed under "copyleft" -- as opposed to copyright -- may be in a legal limbo and is still reliant on the concept of copyright, an Irish legal expert says. But ...

In one corner, the Free Software Foundation, headed by bearded guru (and sometime songwriter) Richard "I don't use a Web browser" Stallman. In the other, the recording industry, where beards only ...

On 1 January 2001, we didn’t have Facebook or Twitter. YouTube, SoundCloud, Spotify and iTunes had yet to exist. None of these services saw the light of day until ...

No one would confuse cyber-lawyer Lawrence Lessig with Homer Simpson – symbol for all that is dumb about America. But Lessig, a professor of law at Stanford University in Palo Alto, CA, has spent a ...

Prenda Law is gone, and today it's a legit porno company, Malibu Media, that files more copyright lawsuits than anyone else. Malibu sues thousands of people for downloading the company's content via ...