Last week, I wrote about a lawsuit filed by the United States Copyright Group (USCG) on behalf of Nu Image regarding the supposed illegal downloading of Nu Image’s The Expendables movie. At the time, the lawsuit was the largest file-sharing copyright infringement lawsuit based on the number of defendants (23,322). That record did not last […]
Category: Copyright
Yesterday, I wrote about the largest file-sharing copyright infringement lawsuit based on the number of defendants (23,322), which was recently filed. The subject of the matter is the illegal downloading of the 2010 movie, The Expendables. While the studio that released the movie will probably be happy based on the sheer number of small settlement offers […]
On IMDb, The Expendibles has a rating of 6.7 out of 10, based on over 79,000 people rating the movie. It is certainly not one of the more popular movies to be released in 2010, but that does not mean that nobody watched it. In fact, a lot of people viewed the movie after its […]
Authors and scholars would love to be able to use unpublished works in their own works, but they must do so carefully so that they do not run afoul of copyright law and publisher restrictions. Historically, it has been tough to prove a fair use when dealing with unpublished works. There is no per se […]
$1.3 billion is now the largest amount ever awarded to a plaintiff in a software piracy case, and the 23rd largest jury verdict. The plaintiff was Oracle and the defendant was SAP, a leader in business management software. Oracle claimed that SAP stole thousands of copies of Oracle software for over three years and then […]
On its “About” page, The Pirate Bay describes itself as follows: The Pirate Bay is the worlds largest bittorrent tracker. Bittorrent is a filesharing protocol that in a reliable way enables big and fast file transfers. The website was founded by a Swedish anti-copyright organization and has gone through a few changes of ownership before […]
Imagine spending your time writing an article with the hope that it will be published on a popular website. Imagine the thrill when you find out the the website is going to publish your article. You are becoming a trusted source for that particular information. Perhaps you will be able to earn money by granting […]
Peer-to-peer music sharing’s glory days are long gone. Napster used to be a favorite for people interested in swapping music with one another for free. It did not take too long for the music industry to see the writing on the wall, and Napster had to completely change the services it offered. Other peer-to-peer start-ups […]
You want to create some websites. You understand the value of owning the domain name for your name (i.e. DarrenHeitner.com), you need a website for your company, and maybe you also want to start up a blog. But you have no idea how to write the code for your various sites and do not feel […]