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21 May 2013, 5:30 am
U.S. seizes accounts of major Bitcoin exchange based in Japan http://t.co/kF0zRUOQuX ->
Lawmakers Seek Google Glass Privacy Plan http://t.co/j51gL1l9QM ->
Canadian Tire Forgoes BYOD, Issues BlackBerries to Workers http://t.co/UfGEgV9ihu ->
Chinese Hackers Master Art of Lying Low http://t.co/XZgRuxKlN8 ->
Financial Times’ Twitter, tech blog hijacked by the Syrian Electronic Army http://t.co/HYLG6yCi74 ->
Aussie government tries to block two sites, takes down 1,200… [read post]
21 May 2013, 1:14 am
The Canadian Library Association issued a statement
late last week on the Access Copyright lawsuit filed against York
University, urging it to abandon the lawsuit and pointing to several
legal concerns. [read post]
21 May 2013, 12:34 am
With the latest phase of Canadian copyright reform now complete, the
government may soon turn to the question of what comes next. Given last
year's major legislative overhaul and the landmark series of copyright
decisions from the Supreme Court of Canada, significant substantive
changes are unlikely to be on the agenda for the foreseeable future.
Instead, my weekly technology law column (Toronto Star version, homepage version) argues that it is time for the government to set its sights on the… [read post]
20 May 2013, 12:26 pm
Earlier this month, four Prenda-linked lawyers were hit with serious sanctions by a Los Angeles federal judge. The sanctions are starting to have consequences.
On Friday, Paul Hansmeier, a Minnesota attorney who has been pointed to as one of the masterminds of the Prenda copyright-trolling scheme, filed an emergency motion to stay the $81,000 sanctions order while he and his colleagues could mount an appeal. Today the appeals court flatly denied (PDF) his motion.
Two appellate judges… [read post]
20 May 2013, 10:36 am
The news came down today that, after nearly a week of speculation and rumors, Yahoo! has concluded its buyout of Tumblr, the popular blogging and social networking site. The deal, worth $1.1 billion, is one of the largest of its kind and represents a bold move for both companies.
Yahoo!, for its part, promises “not to screw it up” but Tumblr users have responded with a great deal more skepticism. According to Automattic, this has included a spike in blog posts being transferred from… [read post]
20 May 2013, 9:10 am
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1: Grooveshark’s Future in Doubt After Settlements With Big Music
First off today, Ernesto at Torrentfreak writes that several former (and one current) Grooveshark employee has agreed to “consent judgments” to end litigation against them, raising questions about the future of Grooveshark as a company.
In late 2011, Universal Music Group sued the music streaming service Grooveshark claiming that it was… [read post]
20 May 2013, 6:56 am
Apparently undaunted by the previous mass dismissals, Voltage Pictures has moved forward with their BitTorrent litigation strategy by filing a copyright infringement action against a single IP address. I’m reluctant to forecast Voltage Pictures’ next move, but I suspect this is a test case that, if financially successful, will result in hundreds of individual filings.
[Update: A commenter has informed that the Defendant in this case was one of the first to respond with a Motion to Quash… [read post]
20 May 2013, 6:14 am
In March, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued an opinion in Luvdarts et al. v. AT&T Mobility et. al. (9th Cir. March 25, 2013). Luvdarts, the plaintiff-appellant, appealed from the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California’s dismissal of its vicarious and contributory copyright infringement claims against certain wireless carriers [...] [read post]
20 May 2013, 5:00 am
Dave Mustaine
One of my favorite heavy metal guitarists, Dave Mustaine, has a great saying regarding talent: “It’s not the size of the pencil that matters, it’s how you write your name.”
If only we could get over this preoccupation with SIZE in the so-called art world. It’s ironic, I know. I touched upon this fascination with BIG a few days after the Cariou v. Prince opinion, where I noted — among other modes of socio-cultural discrimination — the Second… [read post]
20 May 2013, 1:56 am
“The creator of children’s TV show Button Moon has won a damages claim against a businessman he said copied his designs on T-shirts and mugs.”
Full story
BBC News, 17th May 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk [read post]
19 May 2013, 5:00 am
If you’re in London and interested in art & law, join me, professor Lionel Bently, Prodromos Tsiavos, and The Piracy Project at The Showroom for an afternoon of art, books, piracy, and copyright. With the recent Cariou v. Prince fair use opinion, this will certainly add a bit of fuel to the burning fire. Hope to see you there.
What: A Day at the Courtroom
When: Saturday, June 15, 2013, from 2-5pm.
Where:
The Showroom
63 Penfold Street
London NW8 8PQ [read post]
18 May 2013, 5:06 pm
When frequent contributor and collaborator Jerry Newhall recently asked for some space on this page for a plug, I was more than happy to oblige. A plug!?! some might say. But not to worry dear readers, he isn't shilling anything dodgy like internet gambling...As a periodic contributor to BlawgConomics, I've shared my ruminations on subjects from zombies to handbags. And as regular readers know, I'm currently hard at work alongside the Esteemed Editor on a paper examining the nature of… [read post]
18 May 2013, 11:03 am
It is Friday Saturday again and that means that it is time for another episode of the Copyright 2.0 Show.
It was a busy week for copyright news as members of the U.S. Congress has proposed legislation to drastically reform the DMCA, Aereo is trying for a big win against the TV studios suing it and Google is seeking to stop authors from suing them as a group.
However, there’s much more than that. We also have an important fair use ruling in the Righthaven saga and, most bizarrely, an argument… [read post]
18 May 2013, 9:14 am
As briefly discussed above, Peteski brought this action against Deadspin because Deadspin copied the Dr. Phil show that had an exclusive interview with Ronaiah Tuiasosopo. Tuiasosopo is the brains (and voice) behind the hoax that was played on Notre Dame football player Manti Te'o. What was the hoax? A fake online girlfriend for the football player. On the first part of Dr. Phil's two-part show, Tuiasosopo talked about how the hoax worked, and toward the end of the show, Dr. Phil asked Tuiasosopo… [read post]
18 May 2013, 5:30 am
The Industrial Internet economy: Canada 2025 http://t.co/vfY4CA0O8r ->
UK court jails four LulzSec hackers who masterminded cyberattacks on targets including the CIA http://t.co/7NbclcDgT5 ->
Twitter comment about British politician leads to defamation case http://t.co/qmCUAkUFOB ->
Supreme Court Looks More Closely at Reviewing Therasense http://t.co/gueEtnH83q ->
Google Glass spurs privacy questions from Congress http://t.co/z7scDzNqga ->
Yahoo Wins Appeal of $2.7 Billion Suit in… [read post]
18 May 2013, 5:30 am
Computer and Internet Law Updates for 2013-05-11 | Barry Sookman http://t.co/Cvy8vCt7SF ->
Computer and Internet Law Updates for 2013-05-11: RT @AusCopyright: News Alert – High Court delivers reasons f… http://t.co/db5J2oxA2V ->
Mandating disclosure of personal information for census purposes no Charter breach R v Finley, 2013 SKCA 47 http://t.co/3STTaTILF7 ->
UK company's spyware 'used against Bahrain activist', court papers claim http://t.co/4NL4JO56Sv ->
CLS Bank v. Alice… [read post]
17 May 2013, 1:59 pm
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1: Advocates Call for Legal Protections for Copyright Consumers
First off today, Grant Gross at Tech Hive reports that yesterday marked the first hearing before the intellectual property subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee on a possible major overhaul of copyright in the United States.
The hearing involved members from a group called the Copyright Principles Project, which released a 2010 report about trying… [read post]
17 May 2013, 1:25 pm
A mosaic of Lady Justice at the 9th Circuit in San Francisco.
Thomas Hawk
Four lawyers linked to the embattled copyright-trolling Prenda Law operation were slapped with a sanctions order earlier this month, ordering them to pay more than $80,000 in penalties and referring them to state bar investigators as well as the US Attorney's office.
The only one who has spoken publicly, John Steele, said he will appeal. Now, papers have been filed by Steele's… [read post]
17 May 2013, 12:29 pm
Football Ass'n Premier League Ltd. v. YouTube, Inc., ---
F.Supp.2d ----, 2013 WL 2096411 (S.D.N.Y.)
Interesting not just because of the intersection of class
actions and copyright, but because neither side apparently had the incentive to
clarify matters with respect to statutory damages, thus enabling some sloppy language, though nothing that ought to make a difference to this
case.
The court began by suggesting that this case was a
“Frankenstein monster posing as a class action”… [read post]
17 May 2013, 11:41 am
Arctic Pear by Ochre
Most of my writing here about copyright law concerns the misuse and abuse of its heavily pro-plaintiff provisions such that there is little or no incentive against the filing of meritless claims of infringement. In particular I have focused on scams such as Righthaven, the now-defunct copyright trolling operation, and the use or threatened use of attorneys’ fees and statutory damages as part of such claims. Often these components are wildly out of proportion to… [read post]