I’ve been at this all backwards. See, first I read this story, which seemed to suggest that Canada was working on an agreement that would turn its border cops into copyright cops, lead to searching of iPods and computers for infringing material like ripped CDs and DVDs, and force their ISPs to turn over information [...]
Over the past weekend, the online video network Revision3 fell victim to a distributed denial of service attack that took down their entire site and even crippled their internal email servers. And upon investigating the source of the attack, they discovered it had originated from MediaDefender, an antipiracy “defense” firm (owned by digital media entertainment [...]
YouTube is taking a bold approach in its defense against Viacom’s massive copyright infringement lawsuit. In a nutshell, YouTube’s official reply to Viacom’s $1 billion complaint (submitted Friday) is that if Viacom wins, the DMCA’s safe harbor provisions will be invalidated, and that “threatens the way hundreds of millions of people legitimately exchange information, news, [...]
Oh, no, the worst has occurred! A woman created knitting patterns based on the monsters in Doctor Who, and other people knitting up those monsters and posting them on eBay. And it’s simply got to stop! Well, something’s got to stop, anyway. Let’s dig in, shall we?
The BBC has threatened legal action against a 26-year-old [...]
Ok, here’s the deal. Everyone needs to stop paying any royalties on “Happy Birthday,” wait to get sued by Warner Music, and when they come after one of you, start a giant class-action lawsuit based on the findings of one Robert Brauneis of the George Washington University law school. Those findings, in a nutshell? [...]
As reported by Wired News, Los Angeles County has determined that intellectual property infringement “substantially interferes with the interest of the public in the quality of life and community peace, lawful commerce in the county, property values, and is detrimental to the public health, safety, and welfare of the county’s citizens, its businesses and its [...]
On Thursday, Tennessee became perhaps the first state in the nation to adopt legislation aimed at forcing universities to police their own networks for pirated media. The Tennessee legislation mandates, according to this News.com article:
“any higher education institution in the state, whether public or private, to develop and enforce a policy that prohibits its students, [...]
Call this a “Bob Loblaw law flaw.” A respected law professor and intellectual property scholar says According to intellectual property scholar John Duffy, a well-respected professor at George Washington University Law School, billions of dollars of patent decisions made in the last eight years might have been made by patent appeals judges who were unconstitutionally [...]