No fan of so-called copyright or patent trolls that litigate over purchased intellectual property rights, a law blog has discovered that it is possible, in its moral scheme of things,…
Solicitor Andrew Crossley of ACS:Law apparently saw a potential moneymaking opportunity when he sent out letters to some 10,000 individuals alleging that their Internet Protocol addresses had been linked to…
A lawsuit brought by Talking Heads frontman David Byrne against former Fla. Governor Charlie Crist over use of his “Road to Nowhere” song in campaign material has been settled.
Although patently obvious to innovators like Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Napster’s Sean Parker and IP geolocation pioneer Cyril Houri, most regulators refuse to accept that the Internet has fundamentally changed the…
A journalist covering a lawsuit by copyright enforcement company Righthaven briefly became a defendant himself when he published a Denver Post photo taken from court records.
A federal judge in Manhattan has rejected a proposed $125 million class action settlement that would have allowed Google Inc. to avoid potential liability for creating a massive online digital…
A Denver music conductor who wants his orchestras to perform foreign works that were once in the public domain is getting a hearing before the U.S. Supreme Court.
It isn’t just George Hotz who may soon be feeling the heat from his publication of a “jailbreak” encryption key and software tools on his website that allow PlayStation 3…
Lawyers for an Internet television provider had argued that its $5-per-month rebroadcasts of major network and cable programs to a wider coverage area weren’t prohibited by copyright law or Federal…
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