It’s the latest way to study natives in their natural habitat: Check their iTunes music libraries. A group of researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology and the Palo Alto Research Center presented a study this week outlining the behavior of the wild cubicle-dweller when using Apple Computer’s digital music software. Sharing playlists on an office network turns out to …

As the Supreme Court mulls the fate of file-swapping networks, justices are studying a rarely used element of copyright law that sparked bitter controversy when raised in Congress last year. Last week, the nation’s top court heard arguments from the entertainment industry and file-swapping software companies in a landmark review of the legal status of peer-to-peer networks. In the course …

A Canadian appeals court has temporarily blocked last year’s ruling that overturned that country’s “iPod tax,” a fee collected on the sales of MP3 players that was distributed to copyright holders. Last December, a court ruled that the fee, which is applied to all blank recording media in Canada, should not be applied to digital media players like the iPod. …