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Copyright Holder Fighting Fraudulent DMCA Notices on YouTube

YouTube has built a reputation for quickly pulling copyrighted material from its servers. Many have argued for years that YouTube pulls content a little too quickly and some have ...

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Pirate Party Candidate to Run for Office in Florida

America is often seen as a land of the two party system, but other parties to exist in the US. The Florida Pirate Party is currently in the process ...


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Doctors Use DMCA to Censor Bad Reviews

A company called Medical Justice is reportedly using the DMCA to censor critical reviews of their clients - doctors. In response, some legal experts have set up a website ...

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Joel Tenenbaum’s File-Sharing Appeal Trial Begins

Harvard Law School student Jason Harrow, argues that Congress never intended to punish individual consumers when it passed the Digital Millennium Copyright Act back in 1998 expressly forbidding people from ...

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New Secret Trade Agreement Could Create Global Three Strikes Law

ACTA May not have gone over as well as the US would have hoped, but that doesn't stop any new secret agreement from forming. Among the provisions inside the ...


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ACTA Leaks Again – Our Review of the August 2010 Copy

While the US is doing everything they can to block transparency of the text, the draft text has, once again, been leaked. We reviewed the text and are commenting ...

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Don Henley: “Eliminate or Drastically Limit Safe Harbor Provision”

Famed Eagles singer says that without fixing the current Safe Harbor provision of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) copyright holders are "left with the unjustifiable and oppressive burden ...

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Viacom Appeals YouTube Court Ruling

Last month, YouTube prevailed in the Viacom vs. YouTube case. Under the ruling, YouTube does indeed qualify for the DMCA safe harbor provision. Today, Viacom served ...

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Battle.net Going Down Forces Hundreds of Gamers from Their Games

What happens when Battle.net goes down? Several users found out yesterday that they end up being no better off than those that snagged pirated versions of games like StarCraft ...

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American Anti-Circumvention Laws Becoming More Liberal?

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. ...

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“Expendables” Trailer KIA by the MPAA

Fan-produced trailer that exhorted men to watch the movie “not off your torrents” but “in a fucking theater where violence belongs" falls victim to a DMCA takedown request ...

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ACTA’s Latest Text – A Quick Read Through

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 ...

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For Your Eyes Only… Or Not – ACTA Leaks Again

The ultra secret Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) may be one of the worst kept secrets in the international community. The updated version of the infamous text has leaked online. ACTA ...

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EU Refuses to ‘Swallow’ US Hypocrisy on ACTA

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 ...

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IFPI Demands Google Remove Pirate Bay Links

Sends the search engine giant a DMCA complaint asking that it quit "providing search results directly linking to the website for the illegal file-sharing service" that is the ...

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A Detailed Look at Bill C-32 – Canada’s Copyright Reform Bill (Part 5)

We continue our comprehensive analysis of Bill C-32, Canada's recently tabled copyright reform legislation. The topic has become an increasingly forbidden topic to discuss, however, we are ...

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UK Music Industry Targets Google With US DMCA

British Phonographic Industry (BPI) asks the search engine to remove links to copyrighted material, making one wonder why it seems to get a free pass while sites like The Pirate ...

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Editorial: The Importance of the Anti-Circumvention Debate in Canada

With the Canadian DMCA about to be tabled this week I thought it would be important to talk about DRM and why the debate around it is important ...

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False Copyright Accusations – 2nd Edition

As countries mull the idea of a three strikes regime in their country, it's important to note that false copyright accusations do occur. We are currently tracking several false ...

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Canadian DMCA Minister Losing His Cool Over Criticism?

This weekend, James Moore who took part in the copyright reform process (now being labelled as the Canadian DMCA) had what some call a testy exchange between himself and one ...

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