Copyright Office Amends Regulations on Interim Basis to Offer New Electronic Registration Option for Single Copyright Applications
Updated: 2013-06-28 17:10:34
Home Attorneys Contact Products Representative Clients Cases Search CO Records Services Workshops and Appearances Posts Photo Attorney Serving the Photographer's Legal Needs Copyright Office Amends Regulations on Interim Basis to Offer New Electronic Registration Option for Single Copyright Applications On 06.28.13, In Legislation by Carolyn E . Wright The Copyright Office is amending its regulations on an interim basis to establish a new registration option called the single application . The Office is doing so to provide an additional option for individual author claimants who use the Office’s electronic registration system to register a single one work that is not a work made for hire . Administratively , single applications are simple for the Office to process and may make copyright
BitTorrent Inc is once again distancing itself from everything piracy related. The San Francisco company is lashing out against media reports which claim that Game of Thrones is the "King of BitTorrent." The question, however, is whether this aggressive stance is helping them out or if we're seeing the Streisand Effect in progress. Can BitTorrent Inc. ever shake its association with piracy while it shares its name with the world's most popular file-sharing mechanism?Source: BitTorrent Inc’s Pirate Dilemma, Fabrications and Delusions
The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent are in again, 'The Hangover Part 3' tops the chart this week, followed by 'Fast and Furious 6'. 'Admission' completes the top three.Source: Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of The Week
A little over a month ago the MPAA started submitting DMCA requests to Google on behalf of the major movie studios but unlike most other copyright holders the movie group is not going for automated high-volume notices. Instead the MPAA appears to be hand-picking torrent sites and streaming portals in an effort to have their homepages de-listed from Google. The new KickassTorrents domain Kickass.to is one of the first casualties of this strategy. Source: MPAA Kicks KickassTorrents Off Google With ‘Precision’ Takedown
This week news broke that the popular JDownloader download tool had been declared illegal by a German court. The headline was open for debate since the court only took exception to one particular and long-since removed feature which allowed the downloading of encrypted video streams. However, the ruling has concerned the creators of JDownloader who say that it represents a threat to the development of Open Source Software.Source: JDownloader Court Ruling Worries Open Source Software Developers
With more than five million downloads for a single episode, Game of Thrones is by far the most pirated TV-show of the spring season. Thanks to the continued worldwide hype around the show and its high piracy rate, the number of downloads via BitTorrent show a 25 percent increase compared to last year. Aside from this HBO success story, several new series did well among pirates too, including Vikings, Hannibal and Arrow, with over a million downloads each. Source: Top 10 Most Pirated TV-Shows of the Season
Aggressive new anti-piracy legislation that allows for sites to be rapidly blocked by ISPs upon allegations of copyright infringement passed through its final two readings in Russia's State Duma today. Lawmakers fast-tracked the controversial legislation despite intense opposition from Google and Yandex, Russia's biggest search engine. Following upper house and presidential approval, the law is expected to come into effect on August 1.Source: Russia’s ‘SOPA’ Passed By Lawmakers, Site Blocking Begins “In Weeks”
One of the largest insurance companies in Guatemala has sued Microsoft over an unwarranted and extortion-like anti-piracy raid. With the help of local law enforcement Microsoft allegedly demanded an on the spot payment of $70,000 for the use of pirated software or the alternative of confiscating all of the company's computers. These types of raids are not isolated incidents in the software industry. Just last week the BSA and Microsoft lost a similar case in which the court described their raids as "deceptive." Source: Microsoft Sued Over ‘Mafia-Like’ Anti-Piracy Raid
U.S. Copyright Czar Victoria Espinel released her strategic plan on intellectual property enforcement today. In her report Espinel applauds voluntary anti-piracy agreements in the private sector and cites the six-strikes copyright alert system as a prime example. At the same time, the Copyright Czar also highlights several threats that warrant increased attention in the future, including 3D printing piracy.Source: U.S. Copyright Czar Applauds Six-Strikes, Warns Over 3D Printing Piracy
Home Attorneys Contact Products Representative Clients Cases Search CO Records Services Workshops and Appearances Posts Photo Attorney Serving the Photographer's Legal Needs Administration Releases 2013 Joint Strategic Plan on Intellectual Property Enforcement On 06.20.13, In Legislation by Carolyn E . Wright The Office of the U.S . Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator released today the 2013 Joint Strategic Plan on Intellectual Property Enforcement The U.S . Copyright Office has issued the following statement about the : Plan The Copyright Office congratulates the Office of the U.S . Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator on today’s release of the 2013 Joint Strategic Plan on Intellectual Property Enforcement . The Office agrees with the Administration that effective
Following a trial spanning two weeks, the Stockholm District Court has just handed down its sentence in the Gottfrid Svartholm hacking case. The 28-year-old was found guilty of hacking into Logica, a company carrying out work for local tax authorities, and sentenced to two years in jail. Another man, said to be his accomplice, was sentenced to probation.Source: Pirate Bay Founder Guilty of Hacking, Sentenced to Two Years in Prison
Leading ISPs in the UK have confirmed they are being pressured by rightsholders to add two major file-sharing sites to their blocklists. EZTV is the leading public TV show-focused website online and YIFY-Torrents is a rapidly growing site and home of hundreds of popular YIFY video releases. The ISPs say that no further information will be released until a court order is received but it seems likely that Hollywood is behind the request.Source: UK ISPs Asked To Block EZTV and YIFY-Torrents
The KAT.ph domain name is back in the hands of the KickassTorrents team after a temporary injunction ran its course. Meanwhile, the legal action initiated by the music industry continues and it's doubtful whether the second largest torrent site on the Internet will return to its old domain. The dotPH registry, who were also named in the complaint, informs TorrentFreak that going after domains is an ineffective strategy, as the events of the past week have shown.Source: KickassTorrents Regains Control Over KAT.ph, Legal Case Continues
A brand new law designed to make it easier to chase down file-sharers and have sites blocked at the ISP level is set to be exploited to the full when it comes into effect in just a few days time. Rightsholders including IFPI and representatives from the music and publishing industries will team up to create a Norwegian anti-piracy group modeled on the infamous Antipiratbyran. Web blocking of all the major torrent sites, including The Pirate Bay, is high on the agenda.Source: New Anti-Piracy Group Will Monitor File-Sharers and Block All Major Torrent Sites
As Russia braces itself for the introduction of a tough new anti-piracy law, the major labels have begun blitzing Russia's Facebook equivalent with copyright takedowns. The music of popular artists is currently being removed en masse by the huge social networking site causing outrage among its users who are now attempting to 'encrypt' their music uploads. While that's unlikely to stop deletions, the labels appear to be in the mood to exchange their stick for a carrot.Source: Users ‘Encrypt’ Music Uploads As Copyright Holders Blitz Russia’s Facebook
Home Attorneys Contact Products Representative Clients Cases Search CO Records Services Workshops and Appearances Posts Photo Attorney Serving the Photographer's Legal Needs eCO Uploading Method Improved On 06.17.13, In Copyright by Carolyn E . Wright The U.S . Copyright Office started the electronic copyright office eCO” to make it easier and quicker to register your copyrights . Follow the steps presented in this article to learn how to use the . system One problem with the eCO system is that it has a limited time for which your files can be uploaded . If you have lots of images to upload , then the system may time out before your upload is . complete But the Copyright Office has improved the system to address this concern . Specifically , you now need to close” your upload to let the
RSS feeds are a great tool for keeping up to date with the latest information across the web, whether that be plain news updates or other fresh content. Now a new website allows users to transform any RSS feed into a torrent-enabled RSS feed which can be imported into a torrent client for automated downloads of a limitless array of content.Source: Torrent-Enable any RSS Feed With a Couple of Clicks
Some of the world's largest book publishers are going after two prolific Usenet uploaders. The publishers have obtained subpoenas from a federal court in the District of Columbia which require major Usenet providers to reveal their customers' identities. Thus far legal action against Usenet users has been relatively rare, but the documents suggest that the publishers are preparing just that. Source: Major Book Publishers Demand Identities of Usenet Uploaders
Several UK Internet providers have quietly added a list of new sites to their secretive anti-piracy blocklists. Following in the footsteps of Sky, the first ISP to initiate a proxy blockade, Virgin, BT and several other providers now restrict access to several torrent site proxies. The surprise isn't really that proxies have been added to the blocklist, but that the music industry and ISPs are failing to disclose which sites are being banned.Source: UK ISPs Secretly Start Blocking Torrent Site Proxies
When the original crew of The Pirate Bay were found guilty of copyright infringement following their 2009 trial, the trio plus former financier Carl Lundström were left with a hefty bills for damages. Interest on the amount has been accruing by the day ever since and all told the amount owed now exceeds $12m. But with Lundström about to go bankrupt, will Hollywood ever see a penny? Maybe not, but the studios aren't giving up yet.Source: MPAA Still Hunting for Cash as Pirate Bay Financier Set to go Bankrupt