• BREIN Wants Dutch ISP To Block The Pirate Bay

    Updated: 2010-04-29 21:51:25
    Last year The Pirate Bay lost its case in The Netherlands with a court ruling that the site must cease its activities in the country. Despite this decision the site is still accessible in The Netherlands, but anti-piracy group BREIN isn't sitting still. According to information received by TorrentFreak, they are now taking action to force an ISP to start blocking the site.

  • Porn stars turn to YouTube to stop P2P piracy

    Updated: 2010-04-29 01:22:56
    About Archives Feed Porn stars turn to YouTube to stop P2P piracy 04 28 2010 05:22 PM Posted by : Janko Roettgers The adult industry's Free Speach Coalition has produced a PSA that sorta looks like the MPAA's anti-piracy commercials used to look like some eight or ten years ago . Will it stop people from downloading porn You be the judge . Tags : , porn , psa adult , biz Comments Good Luck . : wrote Try changing your ancient economic model instead of complaining that others can do it better . 04 29 00:27:32 Shemale Cam Addict : wrote Not at all . 04 29 17:24:03 Add Comment Your : comment : Name : Website : E-mail Remember Me Sidebar Ads Recent posts Porn stars turn to YouTube to stop P2P piracy 25 percent think its okay to share music , movies and software RapidShare Targets Copycats to

  • Pirate Bay Rallies Against UK Anti-Piracy Act

    Updated: 2010-04-28 17:02:36
    The Pirate Bay is encouraging its users to oppose the Digital Economy Act that was recently forced through by the UK Government. The legislation "threatens the privacy and human rights of all web users," they argue, but it's not too late to turn things around for the better.

  • 25 percent think its okay to share music, movies and software

    Updated: 2010-04-27 19:22:20
    , About Archives Feed 25 percent think its okay to share music , movies and software 04 27 2010 11:22 AM Posted by : Janko Roettgers Those Germans : 25 percent of all krauts believe its okay to download unlicensed copies of music , movies or software , according to a new survey commissioned by the German IT industry association BITKOM . 63 percent on the other hand believe that downloaders should be held responsible for their . actions Those results are published only days after another study found that 25 percent of all male users between the ages of 20 and 29 use file sharing networks to get their loot in Germany . Overall , seven percent of all Germans admitted to using file sharing networks I guess those remaining 18 percent might be the ones that get the copies via the sneakernet .

  • Supreme Court To Decide If California Can Ban Sale Of “Violent” Video Games To Minors

    Updated: 2010-04-26 23:41:18
    Last year, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals struck down a California law that made it illegal to sell “violent” video games to minors. Today, the Supreme Court agreed to hear the State of California’s appeal in that case: WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court will decide whether free speech rights are more important than helping [...]

  • RapidShare Targets Sites Over Trademark Abuse

    Updated: 2010-04-25 18:18:33
    RapidShare has been sending out legal threats to link sites and search engines that use its trademark to encourage users to download copyrighted material. The company is demanding that these sites cease their operations and hand over their domain names to RapidShare, voluntarily or through domain disputes.

  • What the Duck!

    Updated: 2010-04-21 17:51:13
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  • Podcast on How to Register Your Unpublished Photos

    Updated: 2010-04-19 21:20:27
    Check AMSP’s new podcast showing you each step to register your unpublished photos with the Copyright Office.  It only takes a few minutes to protect your work!

  • The Pirate Bay, A Year After The Verdict

    Updated: 2010-04-17 19:29:37
    Exactly one year ago The Pirate Bay Four were sentenced to a year in prison, and on top of that each ordered to pay $905,000 in damages. The entertainment industries hoped that the ruling would set an example, but today The Pirate Bay is larger than ever before.

  • Catch Photo Attorney Online!

    Updated: 2010-04-17 04:03:46
    Join me for the PMA Webinar on Tuesday, May 18, 2010.  I’ll be talking about legal and business issues affecting photographers, including copyrights, restrictions on photography, contracts, insurance, licenses, and more. Catch me on TWiL’s Episode 56 with Denise Howell, Evan Brown, and Merlin Mann.   We discuss the copyrightability of tweets and the visual artists’ [...]

  • Friday Diversion

    Updated: 2010-04-16 20:03:01
    Well, since I broached the third rail subject last night, I might as well atone with something a little lighter. I saw this and thought it was pretty cool. Click on the below photo to link to Flowing Data, the original source. Hat Tip: The Big Picture

  • BREIN Extends Anti-Piracy Activities To eBook Sector

    Updated: 2010-04-16 12:43:30
    Having long battled on behalf of the movie industry, Dutch anti-piracy group BREIN is spreading its wings into a new market area. With an eye on the likelihood that piracy will increase in the sector, BREN has entered into an trial agreement with publishers to stem the growth of eBook piracy.

  • Photograph of Sculpture Is Not a Fair Use

    Updated: 2010-04-11 15:52:56
    As reported in my article, the difficulty with fair use is that “it is sometimes difficult to predict how a court will rule on a fair use case.”  Well, even the courts don’t always agree with each other. Take, for example, the  Gaylord v. The United States case.  The U.S. Court of Federal Claims (a federal [...]

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