The entertainment world is buzzing about a viral video that shows A-list artists like Kanye West and Alicia Keyes singing the praises of fil… Read more »
The European Commission is proposing to legislate to force all the continent’s public bodies to open up their data for re-use by citizens an… Read more »
Recent talk of an internet piracy plan has reached such a pitch that an outsider could be forgiven for thinking participants were discussing… Read more »
The new technology allowing consumers who buy entertainment in physical formats to consume it online for no additional cost has gone live an… Read more »
Federal law enforcement agents celebrated cyber-Monday in their own peculiar fashion by seizing 150 websites to go along with the 72 they ba… Read more »
UK business secretary Vince Cable has appointed former Ofcom deputy chairman Richard Hooper to lead a feasibility study on establishing a Di… Read more »
Two weeks ago, publisher John Wiley made headlines by suing 27 internet users who were allegedly swapping editions of the popular “For Dummi… Read more »
In the copyright case brought by UK broadcasters against the TV Catchup restreaming site, a UK High Court judge has handed the site some som… Read more »
The Hartford Courant, which provoked a lawsuit over an ill-fated aggregation experiment, quietly settled the case last week. The settlement… Read more »
This week saw the largest uproar over copyright in a decade as Silicon Valley and Hollywood clashed at a Washington hearing over the Stop On… Read more »
America is fond of chiding other nations about freedom of speech in the internet age. Leaders including President Obama and Secretary of Sta… Read more »
The Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee is pushing back against critics like Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and Facebook who say that impending p… Read more »
In the latest twist in the epic feud between Viacom (NYSE: VIA) and YouTube (NSDQ: GOOG), an appeals court has zeroed in on a narrow questio… Read more »
Looks like a small window of opportunity has opened for Meltwater News Service and the Public Relations Consultants Association in its case… Read more »
Righthaven has been running on fumes since this summer when a federal judge cut off its revenue stream by stripping the company’s standing t… Read more »
Publishing house John Wiley has joined the anti-piracy fray by filing a lawsuit against people who downloaded illicit copies of its popular… Read more »
In a major win for Hollywood, a High Court judge told the country’s biggest internet service provider, BT (NYSE: BT), that it has two weeks… Read more »
Physicians are wearing lab coats with iPad pouches, and college students are doing coursework quizzes on their mobile phones. For a royalty… Read more »
How times change. In 2006, critics feared that one company would use a controversial patent to gain a monopoly over learning software in sch… Read more »
More than a year after a federal judge threw out Viacom’s $1 billion claim against YouTube (NSDQ: GOOG), the parties were back at it today b… Read more »
Remember the epic $1 billion copy-fight that pitted Viacom (NYSE: VIA), the English Premier League and a gang of others against Google/YouTu… Read more »
Big U.S. publishers are now reporting that e-books now make up between 15 and 20 percent of their sales-a dramatic and quick rise since 2010… Read more »
Being the most popular is not a good enough business model, it seems, when it comes to music mobile apps. Pandora, the music-streaming app,… Read more »
The ugly fight between writers and universities over book scanning is getting bigger. The Authors’ Guild yesterday updated its court complai… Read more »
Univision, the Spanish-language media giant, has opened a new front in the long-running battle over where and how people can make copies of… Read more »
UCLA just won a court case over DVD streaming of Shakespeare plays, but the decision is actually a bigger victory for another school — the… Read more »
– Bravo Digital Media Suejin Yang has been named VP of Bravo Digital Media. She’ll manage strategic development, content, operations and ne… Read more »
While patent law has hogged the headlines in the last year, copyright law is making a splash this week with two cases at the Supreme Court a… Read more »
Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) won an appeal yesterday that confirmed it can stop others from selling clones of its popular computers. But the court als… Read more »
The Authors Guild is crowing after universities decided to suspend the release of over 100 orphan works — in-copyright books whose owners c… Read more »
A sports betting enthusiast who successfully defended himself against a lawsuit by Righthaven is now trying to turn the screws on the copyri… Read more »
Google (NSDQ: GOOG), authors and publishers have been locked in a stalemate since last March when a federal judge rejected their ambitious b… Read more »
Several universities recently declared, against the wishes of the Author’s Guild, that they will begin sharing digital versions of so-called… Read more »
The Righthaven saga continues. Recall that the controversial copyright enforcer last week begged a federal court to lift a $30,000 fee award… Read more »
In a surprise move, authors’ groups slammed their one-time university partners with a lawsuit demanding that the schools’ surrender digital… Read more »
Many fans say college sports are about the game and not the money. One New Jersey judge appears to agree, ruling that Electronic Arts (NSDQ:… Read more »
In a remarkable court filing, copyright enforcer Righthaven today warned that it cannot afford to pay a defendant $30,000 in legal fees and… Read more »
Is copyright enforcer Righthaven, which has suffered a series of legal setbacks, folding its cards? (UPDATED with Righthaven CEO quote) Read more »
As authors and publishers wait to learn the final fate of the Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Books settlement, a group of universities has quietly laun… Read more »
Grassroots members and European parliamentarians in the UK’s coalition Liberal Democrat party want it to repeal the controversial online pir… Read more »
