RIAA's VP of Strategic Data Analysis believes that the shutdown of Megaupload and other P2P file sharing sites is mandatory and will decrease file sharing. Truthfully, it will upset many.
Megaupload's ...
The case is at least 4 years old now, but that doesn't mean it's over. Jammie Thomas trial was described as a "first of its kind" trials where a ...
The revolutionary social music platform edges closer to legitimacy by striking a licensing deal with the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, but will the RIAA still manage ...
The PROTECT IP Act, the legislation that would erect the "Great Firewall of America" has had been building increasing resistance from the American people. Recently, ninety law ...
Says hacktivist group's campaign against public websites like the US Senate, CIA, and more recently, the Arizona Police Dept, prove a "lawless Internet" is not a "good thing," and that ...
Number of ISPs reportedly on the verge of an agreement with the entertainment industry to combat online copyright infringement; White House "instrumental" in brokering the deal; disconnection optional.
US ISPs are ...
Spends $2.1 in Q1 2011, up 74% from the $1.51 million it spent the quarter previous, to lobby on intellectual property rights in various countries and to end ...
PROTECT IP Act would give the Department of Justice the power to force ISPs and search engines to block access to infringing sites. Bill now moves forward to a full ...
Call the move "baffling," and a form of a "corporate imperialism." Say proposed US net filter doesn't compare to China's "Great Firewall" because China's filter isn't "bi-partisan" or "narrowly ...
Three of the four major labels said some of the $105 million settlement will be shared with artists, but after the RIAA deducts the cost of 5 years of litigation ...
Bill SB 550 would allow law enforcement to inspect "commercial optical disc manufacturing facilities during regular business hours without a warrant" to ensure they aren't producing pirated CDs.
The RIAA is ...
Settlement is well short of the billions, and at one time trillions, that the RIAA had sought from the shuttered file-sharing program.
The RIAA and LimeWire Inc. have announced that the ...
Year-end shipment statistics report says that digital music now accounts for 47% of total music shipments in the US, up from a mere 9% back in 2005. Digital downloads continued ...
Says that terrestrial radio is the only "platform in the industrialized world" that doesn't fully respect intellectual property rights thanks to its longstanding exemption from performance fees, whereas mobile ...
US District Court Judge Beryl Howell tells copyright holders they must amend their complaint to include only those individuals whom they believe the "Court has personal jurisdiction" over. Reverses earlier ...
US District Court Judge Kimba Wood rules the RIAA can still seek statutory damages in regards to the 104 copyrighted works for which it has already been awarded statutory ...
US District Court Judge Kimba Wood rejects RIAA's claim that LimeWire should have to pay statutory damages for each time a person illegally downloaded a copyrighted song. Calls the notion ...
Both parties agree to end the infringement case brought by the National Music Publishers’ Association in the wake of LimeWire's loss to the RIAA last year. LimeWire ...
RIAA spokeswoman Cara Duckworth defended the verdict as necessary to address her "blatant disrespect for artists, the legal system, and the law," but doesn't acknowledge that the amount is still ...
When analyzing the anti-infringement activities of the content owning industries (RIAA, MPAA, etc.) it is often far more interesting to focus on the results of what they do, rather than ...
