Sweden seizes Pirate Bay web domains
A Stockholm court on Tuesday seized the Swedish web domains of file-sharing site The Pirate Bay over repeated copyright violations in a bid to end the site's activities.
View ArticleThere are better ways to combat piracy than blocking websites
The Senate passed controversial anti-piracy legislation, the Copyright Amendment (Online Infringement) Bill 2015, last night. But it's not so clear whether the legislation will actually achieve its...
View ArticleJustices won't hear Google appeal in dispute with Oracle
The Supreme Court is staying out of a long-running legal battle between technology giants Oracle and Google over copyright protection for a computer program that powers most of the world's smartphones...
View ArticleAustralia court sides with Internet firms in piracy row
Australians who illegally downloaded the movie "Dallas Buyers Club" will not be asked to pay for the film just yet, after the Federal Court on Friday decided not to release their names and addresses.
View ArticleChasing illegal movie downloaders proves an unprofitable exercise
It has been a bad week for companies wanting to build businesses around make money from illegal movie downloaders. Last Friday saw an Australian judge refuse Voltage Pictures the right to send...
View ArticleCalifornia court makes it tougher for music, movie industries to take down...
For a Pennsylvania mom who has waged a closely watched Silicon Valley legal battle for nearly 10 years with the music industry, it appears, perhaps, her baby should have simply been allowed to dance to...
View ArticleKim Dotcom extradition hearing begins in New Zealand
Kim Dotcom and three colleagues face an extradition hearing that began Monday in an Auckland courtroom. Dotcom is the colorful German-born entrepreneur who started the Internet site Megaupload, which...
View ArticleLawsuit filed in US on behalf of monkey who snapped selfies
US animal rights activists filed an unusual lawsuit on Tuesday on behalf of a macaque monkey who snapped selfie photographs, arguing it owned the photos rather than the nature photographer involved.
View ArticleAnti-piracy battle unfolds in real time on Periscope, live-streaming apps
Floyd Mayweather Jr. vanquished his last opponent on Sept. 12, but as fans used live-streaming apps such as Periscope to broadcast the fight, they were also throwing punches at anti-piracy rules in...
View ArticleTwitter sidelines sports highlight accounts
Twitter sidelined a pair of popular sports publication accounts after fielding complaints they ran afoul of copyright rules for sharing video snippets from US football games.
View ArticleAppeals court rules in favor of Google's online library
Google is not violating copyright laws by digitizing books for a massive online library, a federal appeals court ruled Friday in a decadelong dispute by authors worried that the project would spoil the...
View ArticleNetflix for live, local TV? It could happen
A couple of San Diego entrepreneurs, former executives from the wireless and cable TV industries, believe they can accomplish what might seem impossible: deliver live, local broadcast television - not...
View ArticleHow 3-D printing threatens our patent system
Remember Napster or Grokster? Both services allowed users to share computer files – usually digital music – that infringed the copyrights for those songs.
View ArticleWikimedia art database breaks copyright law: Swedish court
Sweden's highest court on Monday found Wikimedia Sweden guilty of violating copyright laws by providing free access to its database of artwork photographs without the artists' consent.
View ArticleGoogle wins long US court battle on book-scanning (Update)
Google's massive book-scanning project cleared its final legal hurdle Monday as the US Supreme Court denied an appeal contending it violates copyright law.
View ArticleGoogle says anti-piracy effort has delivered $2 bn
Google said Wednesday its efforts to fight online piracy have yielded $2 billion paid out to copyright holders whose content is shown on its YouTube platform.
View ArticleLeader of top piracy site arrested in Poland, charged in US
US authorities unveiled criminal charges Wednesday against a Ukrainian alleged to be heading the world's biggest online piracy site, Kickass Torrents, distributing over $1 billion worth of illegally...
View ArticleEU copyright overhaul sparks cultural 'apocalypse' warnings
Is the EU, with Brexit and migration already in its cross-hairs, about to launch war on Europe's digital start-ups and entertainers?
View ArticleEU's Juncker unveils radical copyright reform
The EU will overhaul copyright law to shake up how online news and entertainment is paid for in Europe, under proposals announced by European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker Wednesday.
View ArticleGermany's top court rejects Yahoo case over news royalties
Germany's highest court has rejected a case brought by Yahoo against a law designed to compensate news publishers for the use of their content.
View ArticleAuction houses face off in website data scraping lawsuit
Christie's auction house has been accused in a lawsuit of using a computer program to scrape research, images and price information from a rival's website and then reselling that data as part of its...
View ArticleBlocking access to illegal file-share websites won't stop illegal downloading
The Australian Federal Court ruled today that TPG, Optus, Telstra and other internet service providers (ISPs) must take "reasonable steps" to stop customers accessing file-sharing websites The Pirate...
View ArticleWikipedia readers get shortchanged by copyrighted material
When Google Books digitized 40 years worth of copyrighted and out-of-copyright issues of Baseball Digest magazine, Wikipedia editors realized they had scored. Suddenly they had access to pages and...
View ArticleLegitimacy of reusing images from scientific papers addressed
It goes without saying that scientific research has to build on previous breakthroughs and publications. However, it feels quite counter-intuitive for data and their re-use to be legally restricted....
View ArticleJustices won't hear appeal in music copyright dispute
The Supreme Court won't hear an appeal from record companies that want to pursue copyright infringement claims against music site Vimeo for hosting unauthorized recordings from the Beatles, Elvis...
View ArticleThe automation of art: A legal conundrum
In 1968, sociologist Jean Baudrillard wrote on automatism that "contained within it is the dream of a dominated world [...] that serves an inert and dreamy humanity."
View ArticleShould robot artists be given copyright protection?
When a group of museums and researchers in the Netherlands unveiled a portrait entitled The Next Rembrandt, it was something of a tease to the art world. It wasn't a long lost painting but a new...
View ArticleNo monkeying around: Court weighs if animal owns its selfies
A curious monkey with a toothy grin and a knack for pressing a camera button was back in the spotlight Wednesday as a federal appeals court heard arguments on whether an animal can hold a copyright to...
View ArticleChina opens its first 'cyber court'
China's first "cyber court" was launched on Friday to settle online disputes, as the legal system attempts to keep up with the explosion of mobile payment and e-commerce.
View ArticleSupreme Court declines to hear Megaupload case
The Supreme Court is leaving in place lower court rulings against internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom and others associated with his now defunct file-sharing website Megaupload.
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