The German Federation of the Phonographic Industry has granted the German National Library a license to circumvent protection measures in order to facilitate archiving. It's nice of them to grant the license, but it's sad that libraries have to ask permission to do their jobs.

In a bizarre show of legal straw-grabbing, a business man has sued CNN for failing to police the postings of "Wolfblitzzer0" on a non-CNN site. The man claims that Wolfblitzzer0's postings are defamatory, and that CNN's failure to assert trademark claims against him/her has caused harm. We assume, by the way, that the poster is not the cuddly anchor of CNN fame.

Did you know that Google tracks every search and the IP address from which it was made? The company may not be evil, but privacy advocates worry that the data could be abused by virtue-challenged government agencies.

The "M&Ms of DRM?" Okay, that was bad, but this news is worse. The two companies intend to saddle analog recordings with even more copy protection cruft.

According to this scary study, over a third of US students think the government should pre-approve news stories.

The Voting Systems Performance Rating (VSPR) is designed to be a publicly drafted, publicly available alternative to today's flawed voting machine standards.

Some people think that the year-old law -- and its guidelines for sending legal spam -- are the reason that junk mail is more popular than ever.

The HDTV king and owner of the Dallas Mavericks weighs in on the coming Supreme Court battle over the future of innovation.