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 […]
Tag: copyright
Authors and scholars would love to be able to use unpublished works in their own works, but they must do so carefully so that they do not run afoul of copyright law and publisher restrictions. Historically, it has been tough to prove a fair use when dealing with unpublished works.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 […]
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 […]