If you don't follow tech news very closely, it's likely you've heard the term "SOPA," but you may not know exactly to what it refers.
You could be forgiven- in the barrage of politics-related news that crosses our ...
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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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Grooveshark is often attacked for its "too good to be true" business model- after years of watching the RIAA win astronomical judgments against file-sharers and the whole Napster brouhaha, users are wary of getting their asses hauled ...
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Well, this is kinda whack.
YouTube is now forcing alleged copyright infringers to watch a PSA starring the Happy Tree Friends in which the blue otter pirate is beaten over the head with a gavel several times as ...
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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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Well that didn't take very long did it.
Early this morning Leander Kahney from the Cult of Mac blog was contacted by Apple PR over this silly idea of jailbreaking the iPhone in light of the new DMCA ...
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Exceptions to the DMCA announced today have decreed that jailbreaking of iPhones is no longer an illicit activity to be carried out under the cover of night, among a few other bones thrown to the consumer.
James H. ...
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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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YouTube Chief Counsel Zahavah Levine posted some interesting things today on YouTube's official blog about Viacom's strange, love-hate relationship with the video streaming giant.
I am not a lawyer©, but the allegations made certainly seem like Viacom is ...
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Times are tough for the media industry, and any way to raise funds and abuse copyright law seems to be fair game, at least if you're Time Inc.
We received a DMCA takedown notice and a demand for ...
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Googling for "The Pirate Bay" returns a different set of results today, as Google has responded to a DMCA complaint requesting the change.
Instead of the results you may have come to expect, pages have been removed with ...
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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 ...
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No this isn’t another story about Warner Brothers sending their RIAA or MPAA storm troopers after a single mom or an ailing grandmother. Those they would probably succeed into forking over a pound of ...
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Copyright laws around the world are in the process of being re-written and in many cases they are a draconian move into the the past with us – the users – being made out ...
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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 ...
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The McCain campaign has written to YouTube, asking that the site ignore a provision of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and provide special resources to give expedited consideration to copyright claims against campaign videos.
The legalities leading ...
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The term red states, blue states introduced America and the world to the notion of a polarized society, one that rallies around what makes us different over the common ground. Polarization in politics isn't new, but today ...
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Online music sharing service Muxtape is offline, with a notice on the site saying only that "Muxtape will be unavailable for a brief period while we sort out a problem with the RIAA." The Muxtape blog doesn't ...
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