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April 22, 2013
The Perils of DMCA Take Down Notice Automation, Yet AGAIN?
Blog By dadmin
I've previously addressed, a few times now, the problem with relying too much on automated systems to identify infringing files that are then targeted with DMCA take-down notices. The latest widely-reported incident...
April 19, 2013
YouTube Wins Another Round Against Viacom
Blog By dadmin
By now, you've probably seen the news that U.S. District Judge Louis Stanton has awarded summary judgment to YouTube in Viacom v. YouTube, and you've probably read the salient quotes from the decision, as well. Rat...
April 17, 2013
Even When You Can, Maybe You Shouldn’t, Redux
Blog By dadmin
As this blog is operated by an anti-piracy services company, it's natural for us to focus on intellectual property misdeeds of pirates and pirate-enablers. From time to time, however, we run across a story in which ...
April 15, 2013
Spain Tries to Keep Itself Off of USTR’s Watch List
Blog By dadmin
Each year, the office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) puts out what it calls a "Special 301" report, a review of "the of intellectual property rights (IPR) protection and enforcement in trading part...
April 12, 2013
A Few Words About “Copyright Trolls”
Blog By dadmin
If you follow copyright law and intellectual property-related news at all, then there's little doubt that you've read about "copyright trolls," a term for which Wikipedia offers as good a definition as I've seen: "a...
April 10, 2013
Issuing a Take-Down Notice; Sometimes, Even if You Can, Maybe You Shouldn’t
Blog By dadmin
Given the services that DMCA Force provides, one might reasonably assume that I'm in favor of issuing DMCA take-down notices in response to any and all apparent online infringements on a copyrighted work; one would ...
April 8, 2013
One Subject on Which Piracy Apologists Have a Point… To a Point
Blog By dadmin
In reading about the (inevitable) piracy of Netflix's popular original series House of Cards, and the yeezy replica evidently record-setting piracy of the third seasons premier of HBO's Game of Thrones, I'm struck b...
April 4, 2013
Judge: ‘Either the Law or ReDigi Must Change’
Blog By dadmin
Back in October, I wrote briefly about Capitol Records' (a division of EMI Music) lawsuit against ReDigi, a service that allows users to store, stream, buy and sell "pre-owned" digital music. At the time, I thought...
April 2, 2013
Court Denies Broadcasters Prelim Injunction in the Aereo Case
Blog By dadmin
In a ruling that some interpret as a very bad portent for the plaintiffs'/broadcasters' claims, a panel of judges from the Second Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a lower court's decision declining the plaintiffs...
March 27, 2013
Judge Rules in Favor of AP in Meltwater Case
Blog By dadmin
Late last week, U.S. District Judge Denise Cote ruled that the Associated Press is "entitled to summary judgment on its claim that Meltwater has engaged in copyright infringement and that Meltwater’s copying is no...
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