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 ...
There's a rather strange statistic that is floating around and it originates from French media outlet 20 Minutes.fr. It says that a survey was conducted and found that 69% ...
The term, "paragraph 29" might not mean much for a number of bloggers unless you are an Italian blogger. In that case, the term "paragraph 29" is a part ...
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 ...
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 ...
After over a year of the Guns N Roses leak of several tracks from the then forthcoming album Chinese Democracy, the story of the person that leaked the tracks might ...
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 ...
Civil rights advocates have achieved a key victory in the fight against the European-wide data retention policy. A short report from EU authorities says, "European Data Protection Authorities find ...
The has been some interesting developments in the RIAA vs. Tenenbaum case that may have some far reaching consequences. How far reaching wasn't clear until some paperwork surfaced with ...
In what shape is the litigation campaign for the RIAA? Evidently, it's far worse then we thought if the RIAAs IRS forms are anything to go by.
If you were ...
HADOPI in France allowed that country to be one of the first countries to pass a graduated, or three strikes law for alleged copyright infringers. Now, the same country ...
It's been a while since we were able to report on anything in the Tenenbaum case, but news has broke today that the Joel Tenenbaum case took an interesting turn. ...
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 ...
We are now over half way through reading through and analyzing Canada's latest copyright reform bill. While there have been many interesting ideas (many of which are, unsurprisingly, controversial), ...
Yesterday, we went through the first page of Canada's latest copyright reform bill (Bill C-32). It's a lengthy piece of legislation that requires multiple articles simply due to its ...
It only took hours after Canada's latest copyright reform bill for there to be condemnation. The Documentary Organization of Canada (DOC) said that they were "dismayed" at the copyright ...
Think it's a typo to call it the DCMA rather than the DMCA? Think again. The Digital Copyright Modernization Act has been tabled. Did it live up ...
