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Facebook URL Policy Favors East Coast

Facebook is wading into territory that domain name registrars found themselves in 10 years ago.  Namely, trying to figure out 'who owns a name?'  Some notable examples include:J. Crew forced the owner of...

Response to Cinema Shill Sony CEO Michael Lynton - Huffingtonpost

This is in response to Cinema Shill Sony CEO Michael Lynton's article on Huffingtonpost.com. This is Michael Lynton, "I'M A GUY WHO DOESN'T SEE ANYTHING GOOD HAVING COME FROM THE INTERNET, PERIOD." At a panel...

Bono on Theft

People who don't produce books or music probably can't understand the impact of copyright infringement on those who dedicate their lives to their art. Most people assume that when an artist releases a CD, they will earn millions. Only the mega-stars, such as Bono, earn...

AP alleges copyright infringement of Obama image

Thousands and thousands of $$ have been made from the sale of one of the most recognizable images of Pres. Obama, designed by street artist Shepard Fairey.  Now the AP wants credit and compensation;  the...

20 Amazing Facts About Voting in the USA

20 serious facts every American should know about when pressuring their Representatives for Election Reform!""

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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