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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
