Copyright
Time Warner Cable Launches New Publicity Campaign Defending iPad App
Time Warner Cable on Monday defended the legality of its new iPad app and launched a publicity campaign promoting it.
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Amazon.com Boldly Goes Where No Big Service Has Gone Before By Launching Music Service In The Cloud
SAN FRANCISCO, March 29, 2011 — Amazon.com on Tuesday launched a new ‘cyberlocker’ service that allows music lovers and owners to remotely access their music collections on any device of their choosing.
Big Tech
Report: Content Providers Sending Nastygrams to Time Warner Cable To Stop iPad Streaming
Time Warner Cable is receiving cease-and-desist letters for allowing its customers to access television programming through their iPads.
Copyright
New York Judge Rejects Google Books Settlement
SAN FRANCISCO, March 22, 2011 — A federal judge in New York City has rejected the expansive amended settlement agreement between Google, U.S. authors and publishers more than a year after the court heard from a wide variety of interested parties in hearings on the fairness of the settlement of a cla
Copyright
Feds Arrest Operator of Web Site Accused of Pirating Live Streams of Copyrighted Sporting Events
Federal authorities on Thursday followed up their previous technical attempt to curtail online piracy with the confiscation of domain names by arresting a man accused of operating the web site at one of those domains.
Copyright
Motion Picture Association Casts Chris Dodd As Chairman, CEO
WASHINGTON, March 1, 2011 — And the 2011 Award of Chairman and CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America goes to … former Connecticut Senator Chris Dodd!
Big Tech
Court Orders Internet Rebroadcaster ivi To Halt Service
WASHINGTON, February 23, 2011 – A federal judge ordered Internet video provider ivi TV to cease rebroadcasting by on Monday, after concluding the provider did not fall under the protection of the Copyright Act.
Ninth Circuit
Motion Picture Association Tries To “Unfriend” Google In Court Fight Over Digital Copyright Law
SAN FRANCISCO, February 21, 2011 — Movie industry lawyers told an appeals court late last week that it should ignore an attempt by Google to get involved in an appeal of a case that they won — even if Google is ostensibly on their side.
House Judiciary
House IP Chairman on COICA: “We Don’t Want To Be Egypt.”
WASHINGTON, February 20, 2011 — The lead lawmaker in the U.S. House of Representatives regarding intellectual property issues says that he and his colleagues need to be extremely wary of giving the federal government too much unfettered power when it comes to seizing the domain names of web sites th
Justice Department
Senate Judiciary Committee Addresses COICA Criticisms
WASHINGTON, February 17, 2011 – The Senate Judiciary Committee conducted a hearing Wednesday to address potential criticisms of the Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Acts (COICA), which would target websites dedicated to stealing American intellectual property.
Broadband Live
Top House Judiciary Democrat: China Bashing Not Going To Work
WASHINGTON, February 11, 2011 — Congress’ traditionally brash China-bashing rhetoric isn’t “going to work very well” in advancing American companies’ interests as the world’s most populous nation’s own global influence begins to eclipse the U.S., said a top House Democrat on Tuesday.
Asia
Experts: U.S. Companies Complain, But Often Don’t Act To Protect Rights in China
WASHINGTON, February 11, 2011 — Despite U.S. companies’ loud and frequent complaints about rampant intellectual property infringements in China, relatively few of them use China’s legal system to stop it, according to a group of legal experts who spoke on the subject of China and intellectual proper
Asia
China Stepping Up Intellectual Property Rights Campaign, Says Attache
WASHINGTON, February 11, 2011 — The Chinese government has undertaken unprecedented measures to boost intellectual property enforcement in recent months, according to the government’s attache in Washington, D.C.
Copyright
Consumers Prefer Legal Content, New Study Suggests
WASHINGTON, February 9, 2011 – A recent report commissioned by NBC Universal shows that if given the opportunity, consumers prefer to obtain content online legally.
Copyright
U.S. Movie Studios Launch Lawsuit Against Online Media Locker Service
LOS ANGELES, February 8, 2011 — Five of the major motion picture studios in the United States on Tuesday launched the next phase of their industry’s ongoing campaign against online piracy by filing what will be a closely-watched copyright infringement lawsuit against Hotfile.com, a so-called cyberlo
Copyright
Japanese Book Publishers Up Against Wall As IPad Spurs Cottage Industry of Book Scanning
The murky status of rights clearance is bamboozling the Japanese publishing industry’s efforts to move into the eBook market even as start-ups take matters into their own hands and start scanning books for people who want to make space in their apartments in Japan, according to a recent report in Bl
