In a victory for Comcast, a federal judge in Chicago quashed four subpoenas that would have let a porn studio identify hundreds of subscribers accused of using torrent technology to share videos. Read more »
Verizon Communications has had a history of standing up against publishers seeking to subpoena information about its subscribers and their downloading habits, so it’s not a big surprise to see Big Red telling John Wiley’s lawyers to stuff it. Read more at GigaOM »
“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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
The RIAA has won a nearly two-year-old copyright infringement suit against news-sharing and communication network Usenet.com; the verdict co… Read more »
After years of engaging in a largely futile campaign of lawsuits against illegal file-sharers, the Recording Industry Association of America… Read more »
