Myth: Reporting the news is what makes it news

If journalists don’t write about it does that mean that news doesn’t happen and if they do does that mean they have some sort of copyright over the reporting of that news? For ... continue

Dustin Lance Black lawyers threaten to sue us despite not running the XXX pics

Lawyers representing Oscar winner Dustin Lance Black have today threatened to sue The Inquisitr for a screenshot of perezhilton.com we included in a post. The shot we ran included one picture from the set of pictures published by ... continue

Music industry set to suck even more blood

Just as the newspaper industry is facing a collapse of their business model so to is the music industry. While it is the falling advertising spending on traditional print media that is severely hurting ... continue

Hulu to release the UK from geotarding hell – how about the rest of the world?

I totally get that this whole geotarding thing can’t be placed directly at the feet of companies like Hulu and Pandora. I understand that they are having to play nice with rights holders around ... continue

Authors Guild blinks and gives Google a monopoly

Currently Google, as a part of its mission to index all the information in the world, has through its Book Search program scanned the text of some seven million books. Along the way though, ... continue

How WENN uses copyright threats as a sales tool

The rules relating to copyright in the United States are fairly clear, even if you don't necessarily agree with them. At the core of US hosted content is the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), a system the ... continue

Secret ACTA International Copyright Treaty leaked to Wikileaks

A discussion draft of a secret ACTA International copyright treaty has been leaked to Wikileaks. The treaty, between the European Union, United States, Canada, Mexico, Singapore, Australia and Japan was agreed upon in 2008, but despite requests across ... continue

Court case could force one strike and you’re out on downloaders in Australia

The copyright case against Australia's second largest ISP iiNet went to court today with an interesting twist: the entertainment industry wants iiNet to disconnect customers accused of illegal downloading as soon as they are notified. The action against ... continue

Only idiots like the Authors Guild could believe in this kind of crap

We are pretty use to the crap that the RIAA and the MPAA like to spread around like fresh manure on a cow field but as of this week they have been joined by yet another trade ... continue

YouTube Now Blocks Copyright Material First, Asks Questions Later

We've had some interesting run-ins with YouTube before over copyright. In December USA Today claimed copyright of a Digg demonstration video we uploaded, and given YouTube seemingly ignores complaints, USA Today to the best of our knowledge ... continue

Valkyrie Producers May Be Sued Over Hitler Globe; Copyright Law Gone Mad

The producers of Valkyrie, Tom Cruise's newest movie based on the plot during World War Two to kill Hitler may be sued for using a reproduction of the famous Hitler Globe. The globes, produced in the 1930's were ... continue

Pirate Party Polling 21% in Sweden

The Swedish Pirate Party, the party set up to tackle copyright reform in Sweden has scored 21% in a nationwide poll. As TorrentFreak points out, the figures are even more remarkable among men aged 18-29, where The Pirate ... continue