TV Catchup Gets Court Victories, But Europe Will Have Final Say
In the copyright case brought by UK broadcasters against the TV Catchup restreaming site, a UK High Court judge has handed the site some som… Read more at paidContent »
Hartford Courant Settles Copyright And Hot News Claims
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The Hartford Courant, which provoked a lawsuit over an ill-fated aggregation experiment, quietly settled the case last week. The settlement… Read more at paidContent »
Why Is Lawrence Lessig MIA In The Great SOPA Piracy Debate?
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This week saw the largest uproar over copyright in a decade as Silicon Valley and Hollywood clashed at a Washington hearing over the Stop On… Read more at paidContent »
How The Stop Online Piracy Act Will Kill Innovation
America is fond of chiding other nations about freedom of speech in the internet age. Leaders including President Obama and Secretary of Sta… Read more at paidContent »
What the web is saying about SOPA
No matter how you categorize the Stop Online Privacy Act, or SOPA, the technology industry has unified against this issue in a way that I have not seen before — even during the network neutrality debates. We take a look at what the web is saying. Read more »
While hacktivism secures the web, SOPA could expose it
According to one expert, hacktivism gets a bad rap when it comes to web security, but those sites generate a lot of attack data to feed security systems. However, the proposed SOPA antipiracy legislation could end up playing right into hackers’ hands. Read more »
The Internet isn’t just pipes; it’s a belief system
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New laws such as the Stop Online Piracy Act threaten to give new powers to Congress and to content companies, and have serious implications for the web — they make it clear that content companies are in many ways fundamentally opposed to the way the internet works. Read more »
Sponsor Of Piracy Bill: Legit Companies 'Have Nothing To Worry About'
The Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee is pushing back against critics like Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and Facebook who say that impending p… Read more at paidContent »
No, a copyright case didn’t spur cloud investment
According to a Harvard Business School professor, cloud startups can thank a copyright law decision for increased funding in the past few years. The case’s timing certainly aligns with an uptick in cloud funding, but it’s tough to see how the two are related. Read more »
Belgian ISPs pressured to pay piracy levy
Belgian music rights holders want local ISPs to pay 3.4 percent of their subscriber revenue to compensate for music piracy committed by their customers. Those customers, however, could still be sued for file sharing, even after their ISPs paid for it. Read more »
YouTube Defines Copyright 'Red Flag' For Court In Viacom Appeal
In the latest twist in the epic feud between Viacom (NYSE: VIA) and YouTube (NSDQ: GOOG), an appeals court has zeroed in on a narrow questio… Read more at paidContent »
Update: UK High Court OKs Appeal Of Part Of Meltwater Copyright Case
Looks like a small window of opportunity has opened for Meltwater News Service and the Public Relations Consultants Association in its case… Read more at paidContent »
Marshals To Seize Assets Of Deadbeat Righthaven
Righthaven has been running on fumes since this summer when a federal judge cut off its revenue stream by stripping the company’s standing t… Read more at paidContent »
Book Publisher Sues ‘Dummies’ Downloaders
Publishing house John Wiley has joined the anti-piracy fray by filing a lawsuit against people who downloaded illicit copies of its popular… Read more at paidContent »
Looks like Congress has declared war on the internet
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A new copyright bill proposed in the House would give governments and private corporations unprecedented powers to remove websites from the internet completely, on the flimsiest of grounds, and would also force internet service providers to play the role of copyright police or face penalties. Read more »
UK Judge: ISP Must Block File-Sharing Site In 14 Days, Foot Bill
In a major win for Hollywood, a High Court judge told the country’s biggest internet service provider, BT (NYSE: BT), that it has two weeks… Read more at paidContent »
Will People Pay For Licenses To Share Content Via Apps?
Physicians are wearing lab coats with iPad pouches, and college students are doing coursework quizzes on their mobile phones. For a royalty… Read more at paidContent »
Why Patent Bully Blackboard.com Became A Creative Commons Advocate
How times change. In 2006, critics feared that one company would use a controversial patent to gain a monopoly over learning software in sch… Read more at paidContent »
If you crowdsource a story, who owns the movie rights?
James Erwin had a writer’s dream come true when a story he wrote in response to a question on a Reddit forum was optioned by Warner Brothers for a movie. But who owns the rights to the idea that Erwin just sold to the studio? Read more »
Appeals Court Cites ‘Many Hurdles’ In Viacom-YouTube Appeal
More than a year after a federal judge threw out Viacom’s $1 billion claim against YouTube (NSDQ: GOOG), the parties were back at it today b… Read more at paidContent »
Monster YouTube-Viacom Copyright Battle Is Back
Remember the epic $1 billion copy-fight that pitted Viacom (NYSE: VIA), the English Premier League and a gang of others against Google/YouTu… Read more at paidContent »
What Will It Take For International E-Book Markets To Take Off?
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Big U.S. publishers are now reporting that e-books now make up between 15 and 20 percent of their sales-a dramatic and quick rise since 2010… Read more at paidContent »
Pandora Learns The Hard Way, Mobile Ads Are Still Far From Being A Cash Cow
Being the most popular is not a good enough business model, it seems, when it comes to music mobile apps. Pandora, the music-streaming app,… Read more at paidContent »
New Players Join Battle Over Scanning ‘Orphan’ Books
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The ugly fight between writers and universities over book scanning is getting bigger. The Authors’ Guild yesterday updated its court complai… Read more at paidContent »
Is It Legal To TiVo The Radio?
Univision, the Spanish-language media giant, has opened a new front in the long-running battle over where and how people can make copies of… Read more at paidContent »
The Court Decision On Streaming Shakespeare At UCLA — What It Really Means
UCLA just won a court case over DVD streaming of Shakespeare plays, but the decision is actually a bigger victory for another school — the… Read more at paidContent »
Industry Moves: Bravo Digital; Bookish; CCC; FRWD
– Bravo Digital Media Suejin Yang has been named VP of Bravo Digital Media. She’ll manage strategic development, content, operations and ne… Read more at paidContent »
Your Guide To Some Key Copyright Cases On The Docket This Week
While patent law has hogged the headlines in the last year, copyright law is making a splash this week with two cases at the Supreme Court a… Read more at paidContent »
In Victory For Apple, Court Upholds Ban On Mac Clones
Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) won an appeal yesterday that confirmed it can stop others from selling clones of its popular computers. But the court als… Read more at paidContent »
In Orphan Works Squabble, Round One Goes To The Authors Guild
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The Authors Guild is crowing after universities decided to suspend the release of over 100 orphan works — in-copyright books whose owners c… Read more at paidContent »
Righthaven Defendant Moves To Strip Firm’s Assets
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A sports betting enthusiast who successfully defended himself against a lawsuit by Righthaven is now trying to turn the screws on the copyri… Read more at paidContent »
Authors, Publishers Set To Part Ways In Google Books Settlement?
Google (NSDQ: GOOG), authors and publishers have been locked in a stalemate since last March when a federal judge rejected their ambitious b… Read more at paidContent »
A year after shutdown, LimeWire still hugely popular
It’s been close to a year since LimeWire was forced to shut down its file sharing platform. LimeWire’s website has since been reduced to a single splash page – but it’s still attracting more than a million people a month looking for free music every month. Read more »
Can’t Find ‘Orphan’ Authors? Writers Group Says It Had No Trouble
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Several universities recently declared, against the wishes of the Author’s Guild, that they will begin sharing digital versions of so-called… Read more at paidContent »
The next Pandora will be a mashup
Pandora has established itself as the leading personalized radio service online. A new breed of services is now challenging Pandora by mashing up videos from around the web to personalized video streams, all without spending an arm and a leg on licensing. Read more »
Righthaven Defendant Asks Judge Not To Let Company ‘Slither Away’
The Righthaven saga continues. Recall that the controversial copyright enforcer last week begged a federal court to lift a $30,000 fee award… Read more at paidContent »
Hotfile sues Warner Bros., claims wrongful takedowns
Warner Bros. systematically abused an automated takedown system provided by Hotfile, the file host claims in a countersuit against the studio. The claims made by Hotfile include information on the behind-the-scenes actions taken by Hollywood to enforce its rights against file sharing on cloud file hosts. Read more »
Authors To Universities: Give Up Your Google Books
In a surprise move, authors’ groups slammed their one-time university partners with a lawsuit demanding that the schools’ surrender digital… Read more at paidContent »
Judge: Video Game Maker EA Can Use NCAA Players’ Likenesses For Free
Many fans say college sports are about the game and not the money. One New Jersey judge appears to agree, ruling that Electronic Arts (NSDQ:… Read more at paidContent »
Righthaven: We Might Have To Declare Bankruptcy
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In a remarkable court filing, copyright enforcer Righthaven today warned that it cannot afford to pay a defendant $30,000 in legal fees and… Read more at paidContent »
