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Hotfile, a file-sharing locker, will pay $80 million to settle a copyright infringement case with the movie industry. The move comes after a judge ruled in August that it lost safe harbor protection.
Legal online movie services offered by sites like Youku and Tudou may benefit after e-commerce platform Taobao consents to Hollywood’s pleas that it stop selling counterfeit movie discs.
“Our industries do something that no one else can do,” the Motion Picture Association of America’s Fritz Attaway said at the Association of…
When the Zediva DVD-streaming service popped up earlier this year, its novel legal strategy immediately became a subject of debate among law…
Online DVD-streaming service Zediva has been getting a lot of attention since it was sued for copyright infringement by the MPAA. But set th…
The MPAA has filed another volley in the looming battle over the Zediva online DVD-streaming service. They’re hoping the Los Angeles federal…
Zediva is a quirky online movie rental business, launched in March. By using only physical DVDs-one per customer at a time-Zediva hopes to b…
Zediva launched just a few weeks ago and quickly produced some buzz among copyright lawyers and tech geeks who debated its legality. Now it’…
UPDATE: Viacom (NYSE: VIA) spokesman Jeremy Zweig has clarified that Mandil’s primary responsibility at Viacom will be managing litigation,…
Hollywood has set its sight on file hosters like Hotfile.com, which was sued this week by the MPAA’s member studios. Many of the legal arguments made against Hotfile could also easily be applied to RapidShare, Megaupload and even cloud-based backup and file synching services like Dropbox.
So-called “cyberlocker” sites have been a growing piracy problem for a couple years now, but big entertainment companies haven’t-until now-g…
Today on the Net: Break Media’s CEO questions AOL’s video strategy with The Huffington Post on board, the MPAA is suing cyberlocker service Hotfile and Thwapr’s new iPhone app lets users share up to 30-minute video files.
When Immigrations & Customs Enforcement agents seized 82 web domain names over the Thanksgiving weekend, it was an unprecedented event-not j…
The “first sale” doctrine in copyright law limits the rights of copyright holders to sue for infringement after they’ve sold their work-it a…
London’s High Court of Justice will hear the opening statements in the case of Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation & ors v…
The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and the advocacy group Public Knowledge sent tit-for-tat letters to the FCC yesterday over the…
A U.S. District Court judge sided with the Hollywood studios yesterday when she extended the restraining order that prevents RealNetworks from selling its controversial RealDVD software.
RealNetworks (NSDQ: RNWK) chairman and CEO Rob Glaser debuted on the company blog this afternoon with his explanation of how his company and…
We reported this morning on RealNetworks (NSDQ: RNWK) filing a lawsuit against the major movie studios, pre-empting a suit that MPAA was sup…
As expected, Hollywood is none too happy about RealNetworks’ new RealDVD DVD copying software. So unhappy, in fact, that the Motion Picture…
Updated below: Always trust Rob Glaser to stir the pot, even if in the end Steve Jobs ends up taking the credit for everything. RealNetworks…
Hollywood studios won legal victory against file sharing today, as a judge awarded a $111 million judgment against BitTorrent site TorrentSpy for…
The MPAA isn’t a publicly-traded, for-profit entity, so CEO Dan Glickman’s presentation at the UBS Global Media & Communications Conference…
