HADOPI is effectively an anti-piracy organization that oversees and enforces Frances three strikes law. Unfortunately for HADOPI, someone else took the Trademark of 'HADOPI' - someone who just so ...
The Philippine Federal Police (PNP) and the Motion Picture Association (MPA) have reached an agreement to work more closely together to combat movie piracy. The agreement includes influence from ...
The Law Society and lawyer Clive Elliott have come out to support a three strikes law saying that the punishment is no different than a driving penalty and that a ...
Many questions have been raised on how HADOPI planned on enforcing a three strikes law. One particular question that really raises doubts on the possibility of enforcement is how ...
A report has surfaced that says that an NZ ISP is having a hard time identifying where copyright complaints are coming from. That's OK, because sometimes that ISP couldn't ...
It was September 24, 2009. France had adopted their three strikes law. While rights holders were happy that a European country has adopted a three strikes ...
The USTR's Special 301 report has been well known for being essentially a wish-list put together by the US copyright industry. Over the last few years, doubts have been ...
Last month, ASCAP issued a letter hoping to collect donations to fight the copyleft movement. After severe backlash both externally and internally for saying that organizations like ...
It's been a roller-coaster of a ride for the Three Strikes law in France. Nearly a year after the adoption of the three strikes law, things still ...
The US might be one party pushing for tougher copyright rules internationally through ACTA (Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement), but the laws surrounding anti-circumvention appear to be getting looser these days. ...
We've provided some extensive coverage of Bill C-32 including a detailed analysis that allows readers to decipher our interpretations for themselves. Since our detailed review, a number ...
When was the last time you burned a CD or a DVD? If you haven't done that in a while, you aren't alone according to a copyright collective that ...
Mass litigation has commenced against 2,000 individuals accused of copyright infringement by Gallant Macmillan on behalf of record label Ministry of Sound. While this isn't the first mass litigation ...
We recently reported that an updated version of ACTA (Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement) has leaked online. We are currently pouring over the contents of the forbidden text (since ...
Things are apparently getting tense over the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA). If rights holders are hoping to get ACTA talks finalized quick and efficiently, they have a huge problem ...
It may be the least surprising reaction of the year, but the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) has said that they would contest the ruling that saw the reduction ...
We have just wrapped up reviewing bill C-32, Canada's copyright reform bill. Since Canada had a huge public consultation on the matter earlier, we found it to be an ...
After 5 parts, we begin to near the end of our look at Bill C-32, Canada's copyright reform bill. While we may have covered a large number of broad ...
In news that might give a second reason to call the raids on several streaming sites a failure, TVShack is currently back up under a different domain. ...
The now infamous ASCAP letter, where ASCAP attacked Creative Commons, EFF and Public Knowledge allegedly for undermining their copyright, has generated no shortage of controversy. Was it ...
