Posts Tagged ‘
copyright ’
Here at The Inquisitr we have been covering the whole SOPA, PIPA, and the Blackout of the Web but even before those two extremely flawed bills surfaced we were covering the international treaty commonly referred to by ...
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As we deal with the morning afterglow of our success in making Congress rethink the whole SOPA and PIPA, even if only temporarily, the push against all things meant to supposedly protect copyright and trademark laws continues ...
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Mike Meier, a DC defense attorney, was once considered a champion of BitTorrent users rights and was even on the list of lawyers recommended by the Electronic Frontier Foundation's web site. He also wasn't shy about calling ...
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That image you see above has, in a very short period of time, become the iconic image of Apple and Steve Jobs. It first started spreading around the web just after his passing away was announced and ...
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We are pretty use to seeing stories about fake Apple products that stream out of China but it seems that some bootleggers have decided to raise the bar and have opened up "Apple Stores" in some Chinese ...
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In the beginning patents were conceived of as a way for inventors of all types to protect their ideas from being stolen or copied without any legal repercussions.
As idealistic as that might have been we have seen the whole patent ...
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There has been a lot of talk courtesy of the entertainment industry lobbying groups about a three strikes type act for copyright infringers who will be kicked off the Web is they get three warnings for downloading or sharing ...
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A student from the UK is facing possible extradition to the states because he ran a website that linked to pirated content.
23-year-old Richard O'Dwyer's website TVShack has since been seized by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), but ...
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The law firm criticized for their "copyright trolling" in an attempt to wring money out of internet users for engaging in nefarious activities such as viewing a YouTube video or quoting an news piece on a message ...
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I have to say, if you're going down for torrenting a movie, you could have probably been sued for something far better than The Expendables.
Perhaps the US Copyright Group wants to add insult to injury by threatening ...
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A little over a month ago, we posted about the Las Vegas law firm seeking to squeeze dollars out of bloggers and regular everyday internet users via a creative use of copyright law and re-interpretation of statues ...
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Via Fark comes a story about this terrifying new practice, spearheaded by a law firm in Vegas and aimed at wringing money out of bloggers and even sometimes message board commenters in a legal strategy that- if it catches ...
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I was wondering how long it would be before this tactic would succeed but according to Kit Eaton at Fast Company two Hollywood giants have scored a major win against Triton Media and set a huge precedent ...
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This is nuts but Mike Masnick at Techdirt has the lowdown on a whole new level of stupid when it comes to this copyright madness. It seems that bartenders are being encouraged to try and copyright their ...
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Well YouTube can breath easy now.
The official YouTube blog has a post up announcing its win over Viacom in their long running court case. The court issued a summary judgement which means that the court decided that YouTube was ...
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) might have a slight bias when it comes to reporting on stuff that is happening on the web but when they have post that is basically highlighting the responses to the Intellectual ...
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Dear President Obama,
I am writing this open letter to you in the hopes that you might be able to explain why it is that the United States Government is so actively trying to hide all information regarding ...
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Australian ISP iiNet has won its copyright infringement case against the Hollywood studios in a major win for commonsense copyright law in Australia.
The case, lodged in the Australian Federal Court by Village Roadshow, Universal Pictures, Warner Bros, ...
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What is it with big buck musicians and record companies, are they all just brain-dead and think that by blaming everything on music piracy that it justifies their stupidity and lack of any understanding of how to ...
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I realize that it is common practice come this time of year for us to all sit back and ruminate over all the wonderful and earthshaking things we have written about in the past year and to ...
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An Israeli hacker responding to a message board challenge has cracked the DRM protections on Kindle for PC, allowing users to convert books to a more portable Mobi format.
Amazon is expected to find and patch the security ...
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In order to try and help the American economy there has been a practice in the U.S. of 'Buy American' and that has led into more than a few run-ins between American and Canadian bureaucrats. Canadian firms ...
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