Copyright Challenges

U.S. Congress Member swho support SOPA/PIPA

The Electronic Frontier Foundation expressed concern that free and open source software (FOSS) projects found to be aiding online piracy could experience serious problems under SOPA.Of special concern was the web browser Firefox, which has an ...

Political Donations and where your money is going.

Shopping Price Club/Costco donated $225K, 99% went to Democrats Rite Aid donated $517K, 60% went to Democrats Magla Products (Stanley tools, Mr. Clean) donated $22K, 100% went to Democrats Warnaco (undergarments) donated $55K, 73% ...

Lamar Smith: Stop Online Piracy Act

The TV, movie, and music industries are the top donors to Smith's 2012 campaign committee, according to data complied by the Center for Responsive Politics. "This is a prime example of the content industry capturing members of government," says ...

Hollywood was secretly one of the largest players

Sony enlisted Ernst & Young to look into its businesses in the country and uncovered potential evidence of wrongdoing, according to the e-mails. In one case, investigators found that a joint venture between Sony and Discovery Communications Inc. ...

Stupid Laws: Craziest Copyright Claims Ever Made

Lately, people have been getting sued for some absolutely ridiculous reasons. The things we do every day—from putting pictures on Facebook to uploading home videos on YouTube—have led to some major lawsuits. Copyright law has gotten awfully ...

A DMCA takedown request to the recently released Adam Sandler film “Pixels.”

A DMCA takedown request has targeted short films older than and completely unrelated to the recently released Adam Sandler film "Pixels." Pixels, the new film from Adam Sandler, was a complete flop with critics and at the box office, as the ...

12.5 year prison sentence for Paul Hansmeier, one of the lead attorneys of the controversial law firm Prenda.

The Pirate Bay played a crucial role in the case, since it's where Prenda uploaded porn movies to extract settlements from alleged pirates. Hansmeier admitted his wrongdoing but is requesting a more lenient prison sentence of little over 7 years. ...

Insane Funny, and Stupid Laws That We Can’t Believe Are Real

Most countries in the developed world operate on some form of representative democracy. Citizens elect representatives who govern, imperfectly, on their behalf. But there is increasing support for a system of direct democracy, where citizens would ...

Copyright Infringement and lawmakers

Aerosmith lead singer Steven Tyler became the third person this year to hit Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump with a cease-and-desist letter for his use of music on the campaign trail. A month earlier, R.E.M. bassist Mike Mills voiced ...

How copyright impacts development of new technology and What To Do About It?

Technology runs our lives these days. Smartphones, tablets and computers – we really can’t seem to function without them. In a very short amount of time, technology has exploded in the market and now, many people cannot imagine a life without it. ...

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