Ripping DVDs You Bought: Still Illegal
You know how if you purchase a CD, you’re well within your rights to take that CD to your computer, convert it to some sort of digital file format, and then put those music files on your iPod. That...
View ArticleTwitter Announces New Copyright Policy
There’s news today that Twitter has a new policy regarding alleged Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) violations. Until now, if a user’s profile picture or background image used a...
View ArticleCopyrights Aren’t Transferred By Emailed Phrase “Done…Thanks!”
Mark Frost writes books about golf. One of his books, ‘The Greatest Game Ever Played’, was adapted into a 2005 film that starred Shia LaBoeuf and Stephen Dillane. So, it makes sense that production...
View ArticleCongresswoman Seeks Reddit Users’ Help Over Domain Seizures
Yesterday, Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) took to the so-called “front page of the Internet”, Reddit.com, to ask for some help from that site’s very active community. She explained her idea in a...
View ArticleIn Belgium, At Least, Google And Newspapers Can Coexist
Lately, we’ve had a few stories about newspapers battling with Google in various countries, included but not limited to Germany and Brazil. It turns out that little old Belgium was way ahead of the...
View ArticleEA And Zynga Go To War Over Similar Games
Post by IT-Lex Friend Matthew Owens (LinkedIn) While there is little love these days for gaming industry giant Electronic Arts, few would begrudge them their latest legal action against an even bigger...
View ArticleDutch Court: Linking To Legal Audio Streams Requires A License
As we’ve documented before, sometimes the Dutch can have, let’s say, interesting ideas about trying to govern technology use. Plans to remotely infect and destroy any computer anywhere in the world are...
View ArticleAereo Okay in Second – Aereokiller Not Okay in Ninth
One of our earliest posts here at IT-Lex involved the streaming video service Aereo, which streamed live feeds of the major television networks to paid subscribers. When we last checked in, a judge in...
View ArticleLinking To An Irish Newspaper Might Cost You Serious Euros
Since we’ve covered newspapers, and their troubles with adapting to the digital age, on this site before, this article from Boing Boing last week really caught our attention. The article links to the...
View ArticleISP Claims Not To Be “Online Police”, Leaves Piracy Talks
By IT-Lex Intern Emily Pineless (LinkedIn) It has long been the practice of internet service providers to go along with the entertainment industry’s requests and identify alleged pirates. We’ve talked...
View ArticlePhotographer, News Agency Battle Over Rights To Twitter Photos
By IT-Lex Intern Shannon Allen (Linkedin) Last month a New York District Court issued a 58 page opinion [PDF] in the Agence France Presse v. David Morel case, where photos were lifted from Twitter...
View ArticleLawyers Lose Copyright Claim Against Lexis And Westlaw
By IT-Lex Intern Shannon Allen (LinkedIn) A couple of lawyers tried suing Lexis and Westlaw on copyright grounds for reprinting opinions. They were unsuccessful. Is this a surprise? The two page...
View ArticleTrolls, Return To Your Bridges: IP Addresses Alone No Longer Sufficient To...
By IT-Lex Intern Joey Chindamo (LinkedIn) In an emerging and consistent body of law, a California federal court has ruled that an IP address alone is not sufficient to establish identification of an...
View ArticleJoni Mitchell Fansite Operator ‘Blue’ After Copyright Suit
By IT-Lex Intern Karina Saranovic (LinkedIn) JoniMitchell.com is a very comprehensive fansite devoted to the legendary Canadian singer-songwriter, but lately the site has been facing some difficulties....
View ArticleCellphone Pics Of Giant Tires Lead To Federal Convictions
By IT-Lex Intern Shannon Allen (LinkedIn) In the recent opinion U.S. v. Howley, the two defendants took cellphone pictures of a competitor’s giant truck tires and were federally convicted of sharing...
View ArticleMass Graves Documentary Leads To Copyright Lawsuit
Here’s an interesting set of facts: A filmmaker named Melinda Hunt made a documentary about Hart Island, “a small potter’s field island in New York City where prison laborers bury the region’s...
View ArticleBlogger Can’t Use Fair Reporting Privilege Defense In Defamation Action
Defendant Brenda Wells was a former patient at a psychiatric hospital in Texas, and evidently did not have a good experience there, because she subsequently maintained a blog devoted to criticizing the...
View ArticleNews Clipping Service Isn’t Fair Use In Copyright Analysis
By IT-Lex Intern Joey Chindamo (LinkedIn) In a recent case that is likely to reach the Second Circuit, the Associated Press scored a victory when a New York district court ruled that a news aggregator...
View ArticleTorrent Site Guilty Of Inducement, Not Entitled To Safe Harbor Protection
By IT-Lex Intern Joey Chindamo (LinkedIn) When it comes to online file sharing, courts have repeatedly delivered beatings to the owners of file sharing websites and services. From Napster, to Grokster,...
View ArticleNinth Circuit: Mobile Providers Are Not Illegal File-Sharing Networks
By IT-Lex Intern Joey Chindamo (LinkedIn) We have discussed copyright infringement a number of times recently, but this story is different. This time, the court found in favor of the accused...
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