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Viacom Hires Theodore Olsen To Appeal YouTube Decision

Viacom has hired former Solicitor General Theodore Olson to appeal an unfavorable outcome in a billion dollar copyright infringement lawsuit that came down this June, according...

Copyright10 years ago

Report: French Music Labels Reporting 25,000 Infringements to Copyright Authority Daily

Copyright holders in the French music industry are reporting a staggering 25,000 "music-related" infringements to the country's top enforcement authority on a daily basis, according to...

Copyright10 years ago

U.S. Film Chief Revives Call for “Three Strikes” Approach to Copyright Scofflaws On the Internet

The interim chief of the Motion Picture Association of America on Thursday urged lawmakers in Japan to enact new legislation that would mandate the disconnection of...

Copyright10 years ago

Las Vegas Copyright Holding Firm Has First Infringement Case Dismissed

A Las Vegas realtor who used an excerpt of a local newspaper's article on his promotional web site was exercising his right of fair-use and a...

Big Tech10 years ago

Will Copyright Law Save New York Area Baseball Fans?

As the landmark dispute over retransmission consent fees between Fox and Cablevision threatens to drag on through Tuesday, New York area baseball fans who are also...

Copyright10 years ago

Digital Rights Group Says Company Going After “Hurt Locker” and Other Movie Downloaders Are Abusing Legal Process

The Electronic Frontier Foundation is continuing to battle an emerging phenomenon known in some legal circles as “copyright trolls,” companies that have been set up to...

#broadbandlive10 years ago

Intellectual Property Breakfast Club Considered Issue of Tackling Intermediaries

WASHINGTON, October 14, 2010 - BroadbandBreakfast.com on Wednesday released the video, for free, of the October Intellectual Property Breakfast Club event on the issue of "Finding...

Broadband Calendar10 years ago

Intellectual Property Breakfast Club Today Likely to Focus on Bill Seizing Infringing Web Domains

WASHINGTON, October 12, 2010 - The Intellectual Property Breakfast Club on Tuesday, focusing on "Finding Solutions to the Problems of Copyright Infringement," may well focus on...

Copyright10 years ago

Final Draft of Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement Released

SAN FRANCISCO, October 5, 2010 -- Global trade negotiators on Tuesday released what they're calling the final draft of a anti-counterfeiting trade agreement that also addresses...

Copyright10 years ago

Trade Negotiators Say Anti-Counterfeiting Agreement Finalized … Except for Digital Provisions

American and European trade representatives said Monday that they've successfully concluded talks concerning a global anti-counterfeiting trade agreement, and they're ready to release the draft sometime...

Copyright10 years ago

Will the US and China Share A Similar Model When Attacking IP Pirates Online?

San Francisco, September 29, 2010 -- A legislative proposal to allow the US' top cop to seize the web addresses of sites that authorities deem are...

Copyright10 years ago

ASCAP Music Licensing Fees Voided for Yahoo, RealNetworks

SAN FRANCISCO, September 28, 2010 — A U.S. rate-setting court’s formula for establishing the fees that Yahoo! and RealNetworks must pay the nation’s dominant music licensing...

Copyright10 years ago

Justice Dept Could Shutter Infringing Web Sites With Court Orders Against Domain Name Registrars

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 21, 2010 -- A bipartisan group of 10 US senators on Monday introduced legislation that would enable the US Justice Department to render...

Copyright10 years ago

Amid Criticism, Las Vegas Law Firm Fires Off Volley of 15 Copyright Infringement Lawsuits In September

Righthaven LLC, a law firm in Las Vegas that has become known for its frequent filing of lawsuits against individuals for re-posting copyrighted newspaper articles online...

Copyright10 years ago

U.S. Copyright Chief Marybeth Peters, Who Presided Over Office’s Expansive Influence, to Retire

SAN FRANCISCO, September 13, 2010 — The U.S. top policy chief in charge of steering and influencing the nation's positions on copyright issues is to retire...

Copyright10 years ago

Sting of Press Coverage Spurs Microsoft To Issue Free Software Licenses

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 13, 2010 -- Microsoft on Monday reacted swiftly to a New York Times report that law enforcement authorities are abusing the company's anti-piracy...

Copyright10 years ago

Russian Authorities Use Anti-piracy Raids On Behalf of Microsoft To Suppress Dissidents

Russian police are using anti-piracy raids on behalf of Microsoft to suppress dissent, according to a Saturday report in the New York Times. The paper reports...

Copyright10 years ago

Pioneers To Gather To Chart The Future of Music

SAN FRANCISCO, September 13, 2010 - Back in 2000, Public Enemy's Chuck D proclaimed on Charlie Rose that file-sharing heralded a new era in the music...

Copyright10 years ago

Court Ruling Recasts Notion of Ownership of Books, Movies, Music, Software in Digital Age

SAN FRANCISCO, September 10, 2010 -- A federal appeals court ruling on Friday could eventually end the huge secondary market that has bloomed online in used...

Copyright10 years ago

Report: Bollywood Hires Online Hitmen To Attack Pirate Web Sites

SAN FRANCISCO, September 10, 2010 - Bollywood film studios are using a software consultancy in Bangalore to launch denial-of-service attacks against web sites with links to...

Copyright10 years ago

Prospects For Global Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement in 2010 Appear Dim

SAN FRANCISCO, September 9, 2010 -- The European Union might drop out of a global intellectual property enforcement agreement between the United States, Japan and other...

#broadbandlive10 years ago

BroadbandBreakfast.com Launches Free Monthly Intellectual Property Breakfast Club for 2010-2011

WASHINGTON, September 8, 2010 – The internet and intellectual property news service BroadbandBreakfast.com is offering free tickets to the first event in its Fall Intellectual Property...

Copyright10 years ago

Internet Service Providers Must Be Forced to Help Music Industry, Says U2’s Band Manager

SAN FRANCISCO, September 7, 2010 - U2's band manager Paul McGuinness has once again lit up the debate over who and what's responsible for the decline...

Copyright10 years ago

ACTA: International Trade Negotiators Drop ISP Liability, Anti-Circumvention Provisions Still In

SAN FRANCISCO, September 7, 2010 - International trade negotiators have dropped a controversial secondary liability provision regarding online copyright infringement, but still appear to be haggling...

Copyright10 years ago

Wrapped In A French E-mail Copyright Infringement Notice ‘Scam’ May Be Another Scam Itself

SAN FRANCISCO, September 3, 2010 -- A widely-circulated report about fake online copyright infringement e-mail notifications from French authorities demanding the payment of fines looks as...

Copyright10 years ago

Report: US Blocked EU Online Publication of Latest Anti-Counterfeiting Draft Agreement

SAN FRANCISCO, September 2, 2010 - U.S. trade negotiators participating in talks with their European, Japanese and other other global counterparts blocked the online publication of...

Copyright10 years ago

Senate Passes Copyright Clarification Bill

WASHINGTON, August 3, 2010 – The Senate has passed a bill based on recommendations from the Copyright Office that will make it easier to transition to...

Copyright11 years ago

US Chamber Gets New Online Piracy and Anti-Counterfeiting Chief

By all accounts, online piracy of software, movies, and music is on the upswing and becoming ever more sophisticated, but that doesn’t daunt Steven Tepp. Tepp...

Copyright11 years ago

Users Cheer Copyright Office Jailbreaking Decision on iPhone, But They Do It At Their Own Risk

SAN FRANCISCO, July 26, 2010 - iPhone owners can now add applications not approved by Apple, but whether Apple will support jailbroken iPhones is another story.

Copyright11 years ago

Free At Last? Obama Admin Jailbreaks iPhone, Sanctions MashUps, Blesses Security Research

SAN FRANCISCO, July 26, 2010 - The US Copyright Office on Monday addressed many of the longstanding criticisms of a digital-era copyright law when it granted...

#broadbandlive11 years ago

At Breakfast Club, USTR Official Defends Process and Goals of Trade Agreement

WASHINGTON, July 14, 2010 - Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Intellectual Property Stanford McCoy defended the process and goals of the controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement at...

Copyright11 years ago

Tech and Content Industry Still at Loggerheads Over Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Deal

WASHINGTON, July 13, 2010 – Major U.S. technology companies are worrying over an international trade agreement currently under negotiations because they see it as putting them...

Copyright11 years ago

Trade Group Slams Administration Over Secret Trade Deal Negotiations

WASHINGTON, July 6, 2010 – A communications and technology lobbying group is gnashing its teeth over a pending international trade agreement governing intellectual property that it...

Copyright11 years ago

Founder of Digital Music Royalties Collection Group To Leave By Year’s End

WASHINGTON, July 2, 2010 - The founding chief of the United States' pioneering digital music royalties collection group SoundExchange will step down at the end of...

Broadband's Impact11 years ago

Experts Debate Need for New Digital Copyright Law

WASHINGTON, July 2, 2010 – The Digital Millennium Copyright Act that extended the reach of copyright when it became law in 1998 may have been created...

Copyright11 years ago

ACTA Negotiators Won’t Release New Discussion Draft

SAN FRANCISCO, July 2, 2010 -- US trade representatives say they made progress this week in building consensus on key provisions of a new international intellectual...

Copyright11 years ago

Silicon Valley Fears Big Liabilities In Small Print of Proposed Trade Agreement

SAN FRANCISCO, July 1, 2010 --The office of the United States Trade Representative said Thursday that its negotiators had "made progress in building consensus," over specific...

Copyright11 years ago

Industry Experts Discuss Piracy Remedies

WASHINGTON July 1, 2010- Speaking at the Department of Commerce today, an expert observed that consumers who view streaming video on pay-only sites are “unwittingly giving...

Copyright11 years ago

Strickling Addresses Copyright Symposium

WASHINGTON, July 1, 2010 – The state of the internet economy, and how to protect copyrighted works on the internet, are two major issues facing the...

Copyright11 years ago

Moviemakers’ Demand for ISP Customers’ IDs In Infringement Suits Should be Quashed, Argue Rights Groups

A copyright holder can't just randomly rummage around an internet service provider's logs of its customers' online activities in pursuit of those too cheap to pay...

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Viacom Hires Theodore Olsen To Appeal YouTube Decision

Report: French Music Labels Reporting 25,000 Infringements to Copyright Authority Daily

U.S. Film Chief Revives Call for “Three Strikes” Approach to Copyright Scofflaws On the Internet

Las Vegas Copyright Holding Firm Has First Infringement Case Dismissed

Will Copyright Law Save New York Area Baseball Fans?

Digital Rights Group Says Company Going After “Hurt Locker” and Other Movie Downloaders Are Abusing Legal Process

Intellectual Property Breakfast Club Considered Issue of Tackling Intermediaries

Intellectual Property Breakfast Club Today Likely to Focus on Bill Seizing Infringing Web Domains

Final Draft of Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement Released

Trade Negotiators Say Anti-Counterfeiting Agreement Finalized … Except for Digital Provisions

Will the US and China Share A Similar Model When Attacking IP Pirates Online?

ASCAP Music Licensing Fees Voided for Yahoo, RealNetworks

Justice Dept Could Shutter Infringing Web Sites With Court Orders Against Domain Name Registrars

Amid Criticism, Las Vegas Law Firm Fires Off Volley of 15 Copyright Infringement Lawsuits In September

U.S. Copyright Chief Marybeth Peters, Who Presided Over Office’s Expansive Influence, to Retire

Sting of Press Coverage Spurs Microsoft To Issue Free Software Licenses

Russian Authorities Use Anti-piracy Raids On Behalf of Microsoft To Suppress Dissidents

Pioneers To Gather To Chart The Future of Music

Court Ruling Recasts Notion of Ownership of Books, Movies, Music, Software in Digital Age

Report: Bollywood Hires Online Hitmen To Attack Pirate Web Sites

Prospects For Global Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement in 2010 Appear Dim

BroadbandBreakfast.com Launches Free Monthly Intellectual Property Breakfast Club for 2010-2011

Internet Service Providers Must Be Forced to Help Music Industry, Says U2’s Band Manager

ACTA: International Trade Negotiators Drop ISP Liability, Anti-Circumvention Provisions Still In

Wrapped In A French E-mail Copyright Infringement Notice ‘Scam’ May Be Another Scam Itself

Report: US Blocked EU Online Publication of Latest Anti-Counterfeiting Draft Agreement

Senate Passes Copyright Clarification Bill

US Chamber Gets New Online Piracy and Anti-Counterfeiting Chief

Users Cheer Copyright Office Jailbreaking Decision on iPhone, But They Do It At Their Own Risk

Free At Last? Obama Admin Jailbreaks iPhone, Sanctions MashUps, Blesses Security Research

At Breakfast Club, USTR Official Defends Process and Goals of Trade Agreement

Tech and Content Industry Still at Loggerheads Over Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Deal

Trade Group Slams Administration Over Secret Trade Deal Negotiations

Founder of Digital Music Royalties Collection Group To Leave By Year’s End

Experts Debate Need for New Digital Copyright Law

ACTA Negotiators Won’t Release New Discussion Draft

Silicon Valley Fears Big Liabilities In Small Print of Proposed Trade Agreement

Industry Experts Discuss Piracy Remedies

Strickling Addresses Copyright Symposium

Moviemakers’ Demand for ISP Customers’ IDs In Infringement Suits Should be Quashed, Argue Rights Groups

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