The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent are in again, 'After Earth' tops the chart this week, followed by 'Bounty Killer' 'Curse of Chucky' completes the top three.Source: Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of The Week
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A coalition of copyright trade groups in Portugal will go to court with a demand that Internet providers should block The Pirate Bay and several other sites deemed to facilitate copyright infringement. The groups state that blockades have already been proven successful in other countries, such as the UK and the Netherlands. The Pirate Bay is very popular in Portugal and currently ranks as the country's 29th most-visited website.Source: Portugal Next in Line to Block The Pirate Bay
An unusual event involving Twitter over the weekend had website users scratching their heads. While visiting websites with the regular 'Tweet' button installed, users were instead offered a torrent file to download. So, what was causing the issue and what was inside the mysterious torrent?Source: Twitter Bug Requires Users to Torrent its Tweet Button
Home Attorneys Contact Products Representative Clients Cases Search CO Records Services Workshops and Appearances Posts Photo Attorney Serving the Photographer's Legal Needs Travel as Far Away as You Can from this Rights Grab On 09.20.13, In Rights Grabs by Carolyn E . Wright The Travel Channel is hosting a Photo Contest where , just by submitting an entry , you transfer the copyright to your photo to Scripps Networks , LLC The operative language is here with our comments in brackets and our bolding 7. Ownership of : Submissions By submitting a Submission defined as 1 high-resolution , digital color photograph the Photo” Entrant acknowledges and agrees that : a Sponsor defined as Scripps Networks , LLC is the sole and exclusive owner , in perpetuity and throughout the world , of all right
The Pirate Bay is blocked by court order in several European countries on copyright infringement grounds. In the Netherlands today, local ISPs are arguing that not only is DNS and IP address blocking both disproportionate and ineffective, but denies subscribers free access to information and runs counter to an EU ruling against filtering the Internet. Needless to say, anti-piracy group BREIN sees things rather differently.Source: Pirate Bay Blocking Orders Should Be Overturned Under EU Law, ISPs Argue
The Center for Copyright Information, a partnership between the MPAA, RIAA and five large U.S. Internet providers, is teaching copyright classes in California public schools. The group, which also heads the six-strikes alert system, has developed a curriculum targeted at kids from kindergarten through sixth grade. Critics question how objective the educational material will be and fear that it will lack balance.Source: MPAA and RIAA Teach Copyright at Kindergartens
Home Attorneys Contact Products Representative Clients Cases Search CO Records Services Workshops and Appearances Posts Photo Attorney Serving the Photographer's Legal Needs Is a Permit Required for Photography on Public Lands On 09.18.13, In Legislation Photography Not Allowed by Carolyn E . Wright Background As far back as 2005 we have been reporting here about photographers being falsely told that they need a permit to take photographs in National Parks and on federal lands . In 2008, NANPA shared its attempt s to clarify the laws on this . Photographer Jeff Conrad check his cool Sun Moon Calculator has an extensive summary on the laws on this . issue On August 22, 2013, the Department of the Interior published the new rule to establish permits and reasonable fees for commercial
Internet providers participating in the six-strikes scheme have made it clear from the start that under the program no subscriber will be permanently disconnected from the Internet. The Copyright Alerts being sent out by AT&T, however, inform accused pirates that in some cases it is company policy to terminate services to repeat infringers. Under what circumstances these disconnections take place remains a mystery for now.Source: AT&T Threatens Persistent Pirates With Account Termination
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