Tag: Copyright

Anti-Piracy Lawyer Rips Off Content from Competitor
John Steele, an anti-piracy "pay-up-or-else" lawyer, has filed close to 100 mass-lawsuits for his clients, targeting thousands of...
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Why VCs Are Against the Protect IP Act
The Protect IP Act introduced by Senator Patrick Leahy in May is receiving a lot of criticism. The bill, which in f...
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Another Righthaven Copyright Case Thrown Out, Only To Be Filed Again
Righthaven lost another copyright case, this time in Nevada. The "company" seems to be losing a lot lately, but this time, they have decided to refile the suit right after the case...
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To Righthaven’s Dismay, Judge Rules Copying of Entire Article Fair Use
Righthaven was dealt another blow in court this week when a judge ruled that one of the defendants it was suing over copyright infringement had fairly reposted an entire article fr...
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Rebecca Black’s Friday Gone From YouTube
Say it ain't so! It looks like, at least for right now, you are going to have to rely on parody videos to get your "Friday" fix, as the official video has been pulled from YouTu...
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Righthaven Complaint Dismissed in Key Case
Righthaven, the company often referred to as a "copyright troll," which has essentially made a business out of suing bloggers and media outlets over alleged copyright infringement,...
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Facebook Pages Being Taken Down, Policy Comes Into Question
Numerous reports have been coming out that Facebook is taking down Facebook pages that are accused of infringing upon copyrights. The keyword there is "accused". Apparently, Facebo...
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Righthaven Wants More than Domains Now
Righthaven, the company that turned copyright lawsuits into a business model, had a claim dismissed by a federal court in...
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YouTube Launches School For Copyright Violators
YouTube has introduced a new campaign aimed at educating users about copyright violations. If the company receives a copyright notification concerning a video a user uploaded, t...
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Copying an Entire Article Without Permission – OK in Some Cases?
Last month, we asked whether full article-copying could be ruled as fair use. We...
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Testing the Fair Use Balance
Remember Righthaven? That's the company with the business model of suing bloggers over copyright that ignited one of the more recent fair use controversy debates. A...
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Viacom-YouTube Appeal Set To Proceed
More than four months after YouTube won a lawsuit filed by Viacom - and just one day after Google announced several new ways in which it'll try to aid copyright owners - it look...
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Google To Roll Out Changes to Copyright Handling
Google is making some significant changes to how it handles copyright infringement complaints and piracy that will go into effect over the next several months. G...
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Viacom Not Done with YouTube Yet
In late June, Google announced that it had won its long legal battle with Viacom. The court decided that YouTube is protected by the safe harbor of  the Digital Millennium...
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Google Goes On The Attack Over Infringement Claims
Time and time again, people have shown that Google is just as capable of tracking down copyrighted songs as sites like the Pirate Bay, and it's seemed inevitable that the music...
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