MPAA Accused of Anti-Trust Violations During RealDVD Trial
RealDVD creators, Realnetworks, is making headlines again during the trial over DVD copying software. The MPAA has been accused by Realnetworks of being a “price-fixing cartel”. All this during what has already been a very long trial where the MPAA wishes to prevent the DVD copying software from being sold in the United [...]
Lawyer – The Pirate Bay’s Legal Demise Could Endanger Google and YouTube
Much to the dismay of Google, there seems to be a movement afloat to compare The Pirate Bay to the ever-present search engine. While many of the comparisons are technical (and this is far from a unanimous opinion), one lawyer is looking at the legal similarities between the two sites.
Simon Levine wrote a column [...]
Day #3 of The Pirate Bay Trial – Users Responsible for Uploads
It might not have been as dramatic as day 2 of the trial, but the day wasn’t void of the defence casting doubt on the prosecutors charges.
The days events revolved around the philosophy on how ThePirateBay is run. The prosecutors have been tasked to try and figure out a way to make the creators [...]
Canada – High Profile Resignation Could Stall Copyright Bill
Late tonight comes reports that Maxime Bernier, now former minister of international affairs and the minister who previously took charge in the copyright reform bill has now resigned. The political fallout may put copyright reform on hold while the governing party swings into further damage control.
Jim Prentice is currently the minister in charge of [...]
California court expands immunity for bloggers
Individuals who use the Internet to distribute information from another source may not be held to account if the material is considered defamatory, the California Supreme Court ruled on Monday in a reversal of a lower court decision.
The ruling supports federal law that clears individuals of liability if they transmit, but are not the source [...]
Swedish Appeal(s) court clears man of file sharing
A 29-year-old man from Västerås in central Sweden suspected of sharing files from his computer was today acquitted by Svea Court of Appeal. Last year the man was the first person in Sweden to be convicted of file-sharing, having been charged with making the Swedish film Hip Hip Hora available for download from the internet.
The [...]
