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10 Sep 2010, 11:01 am by David Kravets
The Motion Picture Association of America also sided with Autodesk. [read post]
16 May 2012, 3:30 am by David Kravets
The DVD Copy Control Association, an arm of the Hollywood studios that controls CSS licensing, claims consumers do not own the movies they buy and hence have no right to copy those motion pictures. [read post]
7 Mar 2011, 9:44 am by Ben Sheffner
On February 28 I started in a new position as Content Protection Counsel at the Motion Picture Association of America, where my primary responsibility will be litigating anti-piracy cases on behalf of the MPAA’s member studios. [read post]
26 Aug 2009, 7:07 am
Testing those boundaries is isoHunt, a Canadian index being sued by the Motion Picture Association of America in a Los Angeles federal court. [read post]
27 Aug 2007, 10:31 am
Last year, the Motion Picture Association of America sued TorrentSpy, a BitTorrent search engine, for alleged copyright infringement by aiding users in trading pirated material through file-sharing networks. [read post]
26 Dec 2014, 12:22 am by ligitsec
In fact, according to Kent Walker, the Senior Vice President and General Counsel at Google, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) is doing legal legwork for Mr. [read post]
31 Oct 2011, 3:28 pm by David Kravets
Mike Masnick over at techdirt directs our attention to an open a letter to Christopher Dodd, the Motion Picture Association of America’s chief executive, and huge supporter of Smith’s legislation. [read post]
24 Feb 2007, 7:02 pm
The Motion Picture Association of America has said that a million movies are illegally acquired every day using BitTorrent technology. [read post]
13 Sep 2011, 1:45 pm by David Kravets
Wes DeSoto had his Los Angeles apartment raided by FBI agents earlier this year, after a Motion Picture Association of America piracy officer advised tipped off the feds that high-quality digital copies of five feature films had shown up on The Pirate Bay while still in theaters. [read post]
18 Oct 2013, 1:42 pm by Jonathan Bailey
This week we have a very special guest on the podcast, the Vice President of Legal Affairs at the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), Ben Sheffner (formerly of the Copyrights and Campaigns Blog), joins us for the first part of the podcast. [read post]
1 Jan 2011, 10:34 am by Howard Knopf
As you know, there is also [Motion Picture Association of America president] Jack Valenti's proposal for the term to last forever less one day. [read post]
4 Dec 2007, 8:23 am
According to Slashdot, Ubuntu developer Matthew Garrett has just slapped the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) upside the head with the DMCA, making the term pwned singularly apropos. [read post]
1 Mar 2012, 5:03 pm by David Kravets
The Motion Picture Association of America sued the company out of existence, and it shuttered in October. [read post]
24 Dec 2007, 11:43 am by Litwak
A cease-and-desist letter was sent and there was no reply.The complaint includes actions based on federal and state trademark infringement, trademark dilution, and unfair competition.MPAA Wins Ruling Against TorrentSpyA US District Court ruled in favor of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) in a case against the operators of TorrentSpy.com. [read post]
21 Sep 2010, 9:33 am by Jonathan Bailey
The act, entitled the Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act, will likely have a rough road through Congress but is already being applauded by members of the copyright lobbies, including Bob Pisano, the chief executive of the Motion Picture Association of America.2: iviTV Sues Major Media, Claiming Right To Internet TVNext up today, iviTV, the “cable company” that hopes to stream live TV over the Internet for a monthly fee, all without… [read post]
22 May 2012, 3:57 pm by Laura Brookover
Motion Picture Association of America, a Central District of California case from 2007, and In re Google Inc. [read post]
19 Aug 2011, 3:52 pm by Tom Casagrande
Back in February, I reported with alarm that the 9th Circuit rejected a trademark infringement claim by the purported owners of the BETTY BOOP cartoon character, issuing an opinion resting on an interpretation of aesthetic functionality doctrine that was so broad that it posed a substantial threat to the ability of pro sports, college, and character licensing companies to stop counterfeiters on the entire West Coast.On rehearing, and after receiving amicus briefs from INTA, the Motion… [read post]
12 Mar 2012, 10:47 am by Andrew Ramonas
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in January said his company opposes the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA), anti-piracy measures that the music and motion picture industries endorse and are stalled in Congress. [read post]
31 Jan 2008, 8:54 am
Those sites, rather than abide by a court order and turn over to the Motion Picture Association of America information on its American users, blocked their access to protect their users' privacy. [read post]