“Our industries do something that no one else can do,” the Motion Picture Association of America’s Fritz Attaway said at the Association of… Read More »
Indie Labels File Suit Against Limewire, Say They Got Stiffed In Settlement
By Joe Mullin
Jul. 18, 2011, 10:44pm
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Earlier this year, Limewire agreed to pay the major record labels $105 million to settle claims that it induced its users to break copyright… Read More »
Now that Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has launched its iCloud music service, it’s going to be scanning a whole lot of users’ music files. So what is t… Read More »
The U.S. record industry has finally exacted its tribute from Limewire, the file-sharing service that was in operation for a decade and allo… Read More »
The defunct file-sharing service Limewire is facing off with the record labels this week in front of a New York jury, and reports from the c… Read More »
RIAA v. Limewire: Record Labels Will Get Paid Twice For Some Downloads
By Joe Mullin
Apr. 9, 2011, 3:32am
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The Limewire file-sharing service was shut down last year, and the only thing left now is to figure out how much money the now-illegal servi… Read More »
Is A $675,000 Penalty For Illegal Music Downloading Excessive?
By Joe Mullin
Apr. 6, 2011, 4:24am
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The recording industry sued thousands of individual file-sharers in an unprecedented campaign of lawsuits that began in 2003; but only two o… Read More »
Limewire Settles With Music Publishers But Keeps Fighting Record Labels
By Joe Mullin
Mar. 9, 2011, 12:11am
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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 »
The Android Apps That Are Sparking Legal Battles
By Joe Mullin
Mar. 8, 2011, 10:50pm
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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 »
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 »
Will New Solicitor General Take Harder Line On Copyright?
By Joe Mullin
Jan. 26, 2011, 3:00am
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To fill the key legal post of Solicitor General, the Obama administration has turned to a lawyer with deep entertainment-industry roots who… Read More »
The record labels’ lawsuit against the Limewire file-sharing service is nearing its final stage-a January trial has been set to calculate th… Read More »
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By Joe Mullin
Nov. 11, 2010, 12:20pm
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The “first sale” doctrine in copyright law limits the rights of copyright holders to sue for infringement after they’ve sold their work-it a… Read More »
By Joe Mullin
Nov. 5, 2010, 12:01am
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Only four jury verdicts have ever been rendered in cases involving peer-to-peer file-sharing — and one woman, Jammie Thomas-Rasset, has bee… Read More »
By Joe Mullin
Oct. 29, 2010, 1:00pm
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Now that a U.S. court injunction has shut down the LimeWire file-sharing service, the only thing left for LimeWire lawyers to do is argue fo… Read More »
Now that a court injunction has shut down the LimeWire file-sharing service, the only thing left for LimeWire lawyers to do is argue for low… Read More »
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