For all the growth in the digital book market over the last few years, Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Books is still the only project with the outsize… Read more »
A federal judge has ruled against Google (NSDQ: GOOG) in its long-standing attempt to expand a plan to scan and then distribute millions of… Read more »
Righthaven, a company that has garnered controversy by suing 250 different blogs and websites over newspaper copyrights, has lost its second… Read more »
UK government plans to curb illegal filesharing could be delayed for at least a year as its most contentious measures are battled out in the… Read more »
Broadcaster Channel 4 is asking the UK government to rewrite the law so that online services would be barred from re-transmitting TV channel… Read more »
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and large media owners have submitted opposing responses to the digitally-focused review of the UK’s intellectual proper… Read more »
The Associated Press’ litigation over Shepard Fairey’s 2008 “Obama Hope” design, which was based on a photo by AP photographer Manny Garcia,… Read more »
Judging by today’s hearings, some members of Congress are willing to consider radical measures to rid the internet of “rogue” websites accus… Read more »
It was a speech delivered last autumn by Prime Minister David Cameron, setting out his vision for a “Silicon Roundabout” in Shoreditch, east… Read more »
The iconic “Obama Hope” image created by street artist Shepard Fairey has now spawned no less than five copyright conflicts. The Associated… Read more »
It turns out Google (NSDQ: GOOG) can still be successfully sued for hosting copyrighted material without authorisation.
Paris’ appeal court… Read more »
Limewire has been locked in a copyright battle with the big record labels since 2006. In May of last year, the peer-to-peer file-sharing ser… Read more »
Google’s Android Marketplace, now home to more than 100,000 mobile apps, has fast become the top competitor to Apple’s App Store. But unlike… Read more »
Copyrights do end — although these days, they’re so long (95 years for most works) that you’d scarcely know it. Once a work does fall into… Read more »
Speaking at a Silicon Valley legal conference this morning, Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-San Jose) said that the recent website shutdown by U.S. Immi… Read more »
Several months ago, government agents with U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement kicked off a controversial new method of enforcing the… Read more »
Righthaven, the company that’s filed more than 200 lawsuits based on copyrights it bought from The Denver Post and the Las Vegas Review-Jour… Read more »
Rovi Corp., best known for being a behind-the-scenes force in everything from metadata to copyright protection, announced a few moves Tuesda… Read more »
Michael Robertson, an online music entrepreneur who has been something of a lawsuit-magnet for record labels, has launched his newest ventur… Read more »
What’s Apple’s social networking strategy for the iPhone? The company has not said much about this so far, but one clue might be in the trad… Read more »
After a four year battle, the only issue remaining in the record labels’ lawsuit against the Limewire file-sharing network is the battle ove… Read more »
Updated with response from TheWrap editor-in-chief Sharon Waxman.
A year ago, Sharon Waxman, editor-in-chief of TheWrap.com, sent a letter… Read more »
Seattle startup ivi TV sought to build a business by transmitting the most popular network TV shows over the internet, but today that idea l… Read more »
Google is still locked in a legal battle with Viacom (NYSE: VIA) over how it handled users who violated copyright rules on YouTube. So a cop… Read more »
Updated with comments from AP.
The Associated Press settled its copyright lawsuit against Shepard Fairey over his Obama “Hope” poster last… Read more »
UPDATE: Viacom (NYSE: VIA) spokesman Jeremy Zweig has clarified that Mandil’s primary responsibility at Viacom will be managing litigation,… Read more »
Starting next month, Microsoft’s Bing and Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) Search will both allow advertisers to buy paid search ads that pop up based on… Read more »
Just about every member of the the Senate Judiciary Committee seems amped up to pass some version of a controversial anti-piracy bill, the C… Read more »
Warner Bros.’ intent to distribute movies as standalone apps packed with all sorts of content extras may seem like just a high-end treat for… Read more »
Righthaven has become controversial by taking a sue-first-ask-questions-later approach to copyright enforcement on behalf of its newspaper c… Read more »
The just-filed IPO documents by Pandora Media show a company on the rise. The popular web radio service Read more »
So-called “cyberlocker” sites have been a growing piracy problem for a couple years now, but big entertainment companies haven’t-until now-g… Read more »
The Associated Press is moving ahead with a plan to establish an independent digital news licensing agency to help news organizations make a… Read more »
Sports fanatics around the web had already started to notice, but today federal officials gave a full list of the sports-streaming websites… Read more »
This morning, Search Engine Land reported on some detective work at Google (NSDQ: GOOG) that seems to indicate that Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) i… Read more »
Look out, Pittsburgh Steal-ers: The domains of at least five websites notorious for carrying illegal feeds of live sporting events were seiz… Read more »
UK media regulator Ofcom has been asked by culture secretary Jeremy Hunt to review one part of anti-piracy law in the country’s Digital Econ… Read more »
Internet piracy is as big as…everyone already probably assumed it was. But just in the case the Motion Picture Association of America hasn… Read more »
A coalition of rights holders including the Premier League and trade bodies representing the music, film and TV industries is lining up to i… Read more »
In the U.S., copyright law generally makes it illegal for consumers to do things like copy a DVD, even if it’s for personal use. But in Cana… Read more »
