Back when we were still worrying about the Y2K bug, the greatest rapper alive, Jay-Z, was busy making it rain with his newest single, “Big Pimpin.” What a lot of people didn’t know was that Timbaland, the producer of the track, sampled the beat that Jay-Z raps over from an old Egyptian movie, Fata Ahlami.

You wouldn’t steal a car. Then why would you steal a movie? Last month, Immigration and Customs Enforcement released an anti-piracy PSA. Is it effectively using humor to shed light on the issue of piracy? Or is it just another sensationalized piracy PSA? Click through to check it out and tell us what you think.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement. I.C.E. The coolest acronym in the U.S. government. Pun intended. The following is a sure fire guide to getting a shiny seizure notice or PSA for your infringing website’s domain name.

The royal wedding is a week old now, but the ban on use of royal wedding footage for satirical use or comedy highlights the differences between the UK’s fair dealing doctrine and the US’s fair use doctrine. Plus, funny hats.

Iron Mike’s crazy face tattoo may prevent us from seeing The Hangover: Part 2 anytime soon. The tattoo artist is asking for an injunction, stopping the film’s release, because Warner Brothers did not ask for permission to put the tattoo on Ed Helms’ face.

A recently filed Righthaven copyright suit tries the novel legal strategy of using a previously failed legal strategy.

Two weeks ago, those who had pirated a computer game started receiving an ominous-sounding error. Users who reported this error were then publicly shamed and banned from receiving technical support. This approach was an effective digital rights management system that didn’t affect legal owners of the game.

After just getting out of a huge battle over movie royalties, the estate of J.R.R. Tolkien may have just gotten involved in a huge intellectual property suit. What will happen when a new book features Tolkien himself as a character?

How far can bluffing get you in copyright infringement cases? Righthaven hopes its bluffs will take it as far as settlements as it continues to bully bloggers into settlements using possibly bogus copyrights.

YouTube has taken a new step in its quest to prevent copyright infringement on its website. If you infringe, you are sent to Copyright School run by maniacal forest creatures.