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27 May 2015, 7:42 am by Rebecca Tushnet
Copyright Office: Jacqueline CharlesworthMichelle ChoeRegan SmithCy DonnellySteve RuheJohn RileyStacy Cheney (NTIA) Proposed Class 1: Audiovisual works – educational uses – colleges and universitiesThis proposed class would allow college and university faculty and students to circumvent access controls on lawfully made and acquired motion pictures and other audiovisual works for purposes of criticism and comment. [read post]
26 May 2015, 11:23 am
Powerful corporate interests like the Motion Picture Association of America, Recording Industry Association of America, and the Business Software Alliance are intent on having anti-user trade deals pass without proper oversight. [read post]
14 May 2015, 3:29 pm by Lorene Park
In an ADA discrimination suit by the EEOC, Bank of America was denied a motion to compel production of all texts, emails, and social media posts by [read post]
13 May 2015, 6:16 pm
Amidst a discussion of new top-level domain names (such as “.sucks”), a lawyer representing the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), and other groups told the House Judiciary Committee’s Internet subcommittee that ICANN should force the companies that register domain names to suspend domains based on accusations of copyright infringement. [read post]
28 Apr 2015, 11:43 pm
Yesterday Birss J made yet another order pursuant to s97A of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (CDPA) [this is the provision by which the UK implemented Article 8(3) of the InfoSoc Directive into its own national law; for earlier cases, see here] to block access to websites hosting unauthorised content whose copyright is owned by members of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA). [read post]
24 Apr 2015, 10:49 am by Rebecca Tushnet
The Motion Picture Association of America, in partnership with Microsoft and ABC NewsCreativity Conference(File under: you invited me! [read post]
20 Apr 2015, 3:49 pm by Parker Higgins
But most relevant to EFF was the revelation last December—through emails revealed in last year's high-profile Sony breach, as well as public records obtained by the paper—that the Motion Picture Association of America had been taking advantage of this lobbying technique to pressure Google and to advance the policy goals that fizzled with the defeat of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). [read post]
20 Apr 2015, 3:49 pm by Parker Higgins
But most relevant to EFF was the revelation last December—through emails revealed in last year's high-profile Sony breach, as well as public records obtained by the paper—that the Motion Picture Association of America had been taking advantage of this lobbying technique to pressure Google and to advance the policy goals that fizzled with the defeat of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). [read post]
2 Apr 2015, 4:20 am by Ben
 It means the net firm must start sending warning letters to suspected file-sharers with the threat of sanctions against those customers who ignore the warnings, and according to the ruling the record companies need only cover 20% of the costs associated with the scheme. [read post]
1 Apr 2015, 9:03 am by Rebecca Tushnet
Motion picture industry has been involved since the 1920s when people stole film off trucks. [read post]
17 Mar 2015, 9:33 am by Jeremy Malcolm and Maria Paz Canales
But the authors of the Torah obviously didn't count on the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), who are doing exactly that. [read post]
13 Mar 2015, 5:21 am by Ben
The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) have both sent letters to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) urging the organization to take strong action against the use of domain names for illegal and abusive activities including those related to copyright infringement. [read post]
10 Mar 2015, 5:02 pm by Jeremy Malcolm and Maira Sutton
The United States Trade Representative (USTR) has built an arsenal of tools to pressure other nations to enact enforcement measures that benefit major entertainment companies such as the members of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA). [read post]
4 Mar 2015, 2:48 pm by Mark Walsh
Christopher Dodd, the Connecticut Democrat who is now the chairman (and essentially chief lobbyist) of the Motion Picture Association of America. [read post]
3 Mar 2015, 11:03 am by Joe Mullin
Hood's investigation came under fire last year after press reports revealed that it was encouraged, and partly funded, by the Motion Picture Association of America. [read post]
22 Jan 2015, 1:22 pm by Maira Sutton
At the behest of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and other copyright industry groups, US lawmakers had the gall to introduce bills like SOPA and PIPA, even though it would have led to widespread Internet censorship. [read post]
20 Jan 2015, 8:43 am by Jonathan Bailey
Film Group Says It Sued Xunlei Unit for Copyright Finally today, Bloomberg News is reporting that the members of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) have filed a lawsuit against Xunlei Networking Technologies Co., a Chinese company that operates video-streaming and pay-per-view services. [read post]
17 Jan 2015, 6:20 am by Ben
Torrentfreak has released details from a report from the Motion Picture Association Of America which says that the US movie industry is unconvinced by the USA's graduated response programme for combating online piracy saying that it is having limited results, though the MPAA continues to endorse the so called Copyright Alert System and feel it is yet to reach an appropriate scale. [read post]
8 Jan 2015, 6:16 am by Lloyd J. Jassin
"The author writes, the publisher invests, and from the sales of the book they create together and from exploitation of rights, the author earns royalties and fees, and the publisher earns its profits. [read post]