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7 Internet Law Predictions for 2012

Internet Lawyer — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 02:05:29 +0000

1. Hollywood Retreats The entertainment industry thought it had bought enough politicians, plus foolish support by GoDaddy (now retracted), to ram through SOPA/PIPA legislation. Pretending to be about property rights, this horrible legislation would cripple ecommerce while allowing politicians in power to crush free speech online. Now that Google, Amazon, Facebook, etc. are fighting back, [...]

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Fox Columnist Fired for Promoting Wolverine Piracy

Internet Lawyer — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 11:42:40 +0000

Fox News Corp. isn’t amused that its freelance columnist, Roger Friedman, has watched a pirated version of 20th Century Fox’s X-Men Origins: Wolverine and apparently promoted such piracy in a column he posted on Fox News’ website. According to Nikki Finke, Friedman has apparently been canned and his column deleted. This just reinforces the futility [...]

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Wolverine: Pirates Steal X-Men Origins Movie Online Before Its Public Release

Internet Lawyer — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 18:05:02 +0000

Hugh Jackman’s X-Men Origins: Wolverine has leaked out onto the Web. Downloads via P2P are estimated to already be in the hundreds of thousands. The Hollywood blockbuster release model is becoming increasingly irrelevant because technology has moved beyond it. The FBI is investigating the unauthorized distribution of the film and the studio claims that it [...]

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Copyright Infringement Damages – Are They Constitutional?

Internet Lawyer — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 09:12:29 +0000

In an unusual copyright infringement case, a defendant (Denise Barker) admits that she engaged in downloading copyrighted materials using Kazaa’s peer-to-peer (P2P) network. What makes this case unique is that the defendant is challenging the constitutionality of the damages music companies are trying to extract from her in the lawsuit. As I’ve discussed in this [...]

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Music Piracy – Even the Experts Get it Wrong

Internet Lawyer — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 13:24:07 +0000

Andy Greenberg has an article in Forbes that cites intellectual property (IP) experts whining about the peer-to-peer (p2p) piracy of Radiohead’s latest album. Because Radiohead let fans name their own price, but pirates still downloaded the music on bittorrent instead, the mistaken assumption is that the piracy hurt the distribution model used by Radiohead. You [...]

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Copyright Infringement – Will DMCA Coupon Case Be Dismissed?

Internet Lawyer — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 02:28:36 +0000

John Stottlemire has just struck back in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) infringement case filed against him by Coupons, Inc. (coupons.com). Stottlemire is seeking dismissal of the case for failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted or summary judgment in the alternative. He’s also seeking Rule 11 sanctions against the [...]

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Is Your ISP a Snitch for the MPAA?

Internet Lawyer — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 11:32:01 +0000

The MPAA wants your Internet Service Provider (ISP) to fight piracy on its behalf. That’s like the auto dealership where you got your car selling you out to the police for speeding. Yes, you the paying customer are supposed to go along like a dumb sheep by paying for the privilege of having your ISP [...]

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Media Defender – Anti-Piracy Group Caught Setting Up Fake Video Download Site

Internet Lawyer — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 03:56:29 +0000

According to TorrentFreak, Media Defender set up a fake video download site to entrap BitTorrent and other peer-to-peer (P2P) users as part of MediaDefender’s anti-piracy efforts. The report claims that internal Media Defender e-mails that have become public provide the details of the scheme to have people upload copyrighted content to miivi.com and then nail [...]

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Porn Industry Joins Hollywood in Attacking BitTorrent

Internet Lawyer — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 04:00:44 +0000

Tired of losing four percent of their profits to piracy, porn video makers are plotting legal attacks against BitTorrent for copyright infringement. This puts pornographers in the same bed as MPAA and RIAA. Fitting but funny when you consider how many adult films have ripped their titles and loosely borrowed their ‘plots’ from mainstream PG [...]

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DMCA Infringement By Deleting Files On Your Computer?

Internet Lawyer — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 12:16:36 +0000

Here’s yet another example of why room temperature IQ politicians have no business prostituting themselves for campaign contributions from RIAA, MPAA, and others in the entertainment industry. An Internet entrepreneur, John Stottlemire, found a way to delete certain files and registry keys on one’s computer so that multiple copies of coupons could be printed from [...]

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Hollywood Attacks Web Video Pirates

Internet Lawyer — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 05:23:10 +0000

Copying RIAA’s tactics in the music industry, the MPAA has filed a lawsuit to stop online video piracy. Like RIAA, the MPAA is doomed to fail. Copyright laws are old, obsolete, and can’t keep pace with modern technology. However, be sure to protect your business and your personal assets by not putting yourself in a [...]

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Copyright Alliance – Beware of it

Internet Lawyer — Thu, 24 May 2007 13:09:24 +0000

Following up on what I wrote about the Intellectual Property Protection Act of 2007…a bill designed to make it easy for virtually anyone to be convicted of copyright infringement, or even attempted infringement, by shifting the burden from the accuser to you. The big money is lining up behind the bill with the formation of [...]

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Internet Lawyer — Wed, 02 May 2007 06:16:21 +0000

If you don’t know what these numbers mean, Google them. If you do know what these numbers mean and object to them being posted, see the First Amendment. Hint: It trumps the DMCA. If you want to know why the numbers were posted, check out this prior blog post. 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 [...]

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L18 Metatag to Protect Children Online Is A Stupid Idea

Internet Lawyer — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 23:09:30 +0000

Congress is once again proposing a website metatag that can allegedly be used to filter out web pages that are “harmful to minors.” When politicians try to do something “for the children,” expect a child-like solution. Who defines what is “harmful to minors?” The same elected representatives who troll for teenage pages and other sordid [...]

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Congress Debates Proposed Anti-Spyware Bill

Internet Lawyer — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 10:27:21 +0000

The Spy Act (Securely Protect Yourself Against Cyber Trespass) is being debated in the U.S. House of Representatives. How will this affect your business? Hopefully not at all. But here’s the danger. If some form of this bill becomes law, Congress has a propensity to screw things up when it comes to the Internet because, [...]

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Copyright Infringement, Spin, and DMCA Protection For You

Internet Lawyer — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 11:01:21 +0000

Does Google’s New Toy Really Expect Anyone To Believe This? “We take copyright issues very seriously.” - YouTube spokesman. No. Just taking Viacom’s demand that 100,000 video clips be removed for infringement very seriously. Viacom has the deep pockets to take on Google in court. If you find your copyrighted work on YouTube, use the [...]

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Some Lawyers Claim Internet Infringement Is A Lost Cause

Internet Lawyer — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 03:48:42 +0000

Intellectual property lawyers attending the conference of the Association of National Advertiser’s Law and Business Affairs complained about the futility of trying to stop trademark infringement on the World Wide Web. Some of the attendees recognized, with frustration, that it was impossible to control Internet content. Hat tip to Zachary Rodgers at ClickZNews. Some Lawyers [...]

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