Have you purchased your .xxx domain yet? I am only half joking. Many companies (big and small) that have absolutely no relation to the pornography industry have been buying up their tradenames at the .xxx level. They have been reserving those domains from registration (see: Walmart.xxx) so that third parties cannot scoop up the domains and […]
Tag: cyberlaw
The Online Copyright Infringement Liability Limitation Act (OCILLA), also known as DMCA 512 was passed in 1998 as part of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). OCILLA is also known as the “Safe Harbor” provision in the DMCA, which shields internet service providers (ISPs) from being forced to pay any monetary damages as a result of […]
The most active group of movie producers in the realm of litigating apparent copyright infringement in 2011 seems to be producers of pornographic material. I have no hard evidence that this is the case, but from the sheer amount of cases I hear about, including some demand letters that clients have brought to my attention, […]
Zediva does not have name recognition among the general public yet, but it certainly has plans to enter every American household. Movie studios will do everything in their power to prevent that from happening. On April 4, 2011, multiple movie studios filed a complaint for copyright infringement in the United States District Court Central District […]