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On September 3rd, YouTube lost a court battle in Germany over hosting copyrighted videos of British singer Sarah Brightman. The Hamburg court ordered the website’s owners to cease distributing any of Brightman’s copyrighted material and …
While perusing on Le Monde’s website (French major newspaper) in search of some interesting news of my home country, I discovered an astonishing headline and article. Excerpts of the French classical novel Madame Bovary will …
A little over a month ago a fellow IP Brief blogger reported on a very interesting decision handed down by the Librarian of Congress granting exemptions to the DCMA. The decision was triumphantly lauded by …
Over the past decade, damages awarded in patent litigation have risen to an unprecedented level. [ ] As the potential infringement damages have increased, so has the cost of conducting the trial. …
Earlier this month, Senator Charles Schumer (a Democrat unsurprisingly from fashion-capital New York) introduced the Innovative Design Protection and Piracy Prevention Act (S. 3728) to the delight of many fashion industry players and the dismay …
MGA Entertainment has thrown out another allegation against Mattel in the long-standing battle between the companies. MGA has accused Mattel of falsifying credentials in order to spy on other competitors at toy fairs around the …
On July 22, 2010 a three judge panel of the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a 2008 ruling in MGA Entertainment Inc. v. Mattel Inc. The panel was comprised of chief judge Alex …
According to Jonathan Bailey at Plagiarism Today, a person’s “best chance of getting hit with a copyright infringement demand letter… is for posting stock photos to [their] blog or website.”
Bailey notes that stock image companies …
I have a confession to make and I really need to get this out. I am a jailbreaker. I used to live in secrecy, running applications on my Apple® iPhone® that allowed me to brighten …
According to documents posted by p2pnet blog, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has recovered a very small amount in damages in comparison to the millions they have spent in legal fees. The RIAA …
