4000 Anti-Scientology videos pulled from YouTube

" Over a period of twelve hours, between this Thursday night and Friday morning, American Rights Counsel LLC sent out over 4000 DMCA takedown notices to YouTube, all making copyright infringement claims against...

Veoh wins copyright suit, sets precedent

"In a decision that should bode well for larger video sharing sites that are in legal trouble such as YouTube, a federal judge has absolved Veoh of any responsibility in the unauthorized posting of copyrighted video...

Pritam - Bollywood Music Composer Exposed

After YouTube postings, work by the Bollywood film music hit-maker Pritam has been exposed as copied and taken from other artists and composers around the world. Pritam has been responsible for producing many hit...

EBay Wins Lengthy Trademark Battle Against Tiffany

Previous article written about eBay paying $61 million to Fashion Companies over sales of fake Good can be read here.With the recent courtroom defeat of eBay, there is finally a reason for them to celebrate as they...

Firm sues Liberals for trademark infringement

Update | - Three weeks after Canada's Liberal Party released its "green-shift" carbon plan, Toronto environmental consulting company Green-Shift Inc. is suing the Liberals $8.5 million for trademark infringement. "A...

Court order on YouTube user data fans privacy fears

"NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A U.S. judge's order to Google Inc (GOOG.O: Quote, Profile, Research) to turn over YouTube user data to Viacom Inc (VIAb.N: Quote, Profile, Research) sparked an outcry on...

Viacom Will Get Your Youtube Records

This is somewhat disturbing: Google has been ordered by a federal court to hand over all of YouTube's viewer records to Viacom, as the media giant continues its crusade against copyright infringement. This means that...

YouTube/Google battle another step towards thinking "after piracy"?

It was a happy morning to wake up and find out I was not the onlyone destined to have an aggravating first day back to work. Seemslike the legal teams and front offices of these two web gorillas willbe pretty testy...

MIT's YouTomb Resurrects Videos Pulled from YouTube

Leave to an MIT crew like Free Culture to come up with YouTomb, a place to resurrect the online carcasses of videos that have been killed by YouTube for allegedly violating copyright.This is an interesting...

Pirate Bay to Sue Music Industry Lobbyist

Just when we all got used to the comforting routine of lobbyists for the recording industry suing the Pirate Bay, and the Swedish peer-to-peer tracker getting around the  suits due to differing laws in the US...

Star Wars stormtroopers in British court

A prop designer who made the stormtroopers costumes for the 1977 cult hit 'Star Wars' appeared for the first time in court today over a dispute with George Lucas about the fact that he doesn't own the rights to sell...

Apple sues NYC: logo is forbidden fruit

 The original article has a side-by-side comparison of the two logos in question. To me it's a silly lawsuit:1) the two logos are totally different2) New York = the big apple3) Fruits don't belong to...

Sweden formally charges Pirate Bay owners

"As expected, the Swedish government charged the owners of Pirate Bay with copyright infringement of four applications, nine movies, and 22 music tracks. Each of the four owners, Fredrik Neij aka 'TiAMO,' Gottfrid Svartholm Warg aka 'Anakata,' Peter Sunde aka 'Brokep' and...

Pirate Bay Admins Charged with Assisting Copyright Infringement

"The Swedish prosecutor Håkan Roswall has announced the charges against four individuals involved with The Pirate Bay. The four, aged 23 to 37, are being charged with “assisting copyright infringement” of 4...

Steal this Film Part 2 - Distribution, media, copyrights, piracy - this film ...

"Steal this Film Part 2 is not simply just about piracy and copyright infringement. Even more so, it is an interesting look into how media and information have historically been shared and distributed. It doesn’t surprise me that the “Gatekeepers”, or the people...

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