Late last week, U.S. District Judge Denise Cote ruled that the Associated Press is “entitled to summary judgment on its claim that Meltwater has engaged in copyright infringement and that Meltwater’s copying is not protected by the fair use doctrine.” While many observers fret that the ruling presents peril for search engines (and services like…
In a decision that likely comes as no shock to anyone who is not named “Gary Fung,” IsoHunt founder Gary Fung suffered another loss in court last week, when a panel of judges from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a lower court’s finding that the defendants were liable for contributory copyright infringement on…
A few months back, I wondered whether the latest appeal from Jammie Thomas-Rasset to reduce the lawsuit damages imposed on her would be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court. On Monday, we got the answer. The Supreme Court “denied certiorari”, which is a latinate way of saying that it declined to hear Thomas-Rasset’s case, meaning…
A new study published by the Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (part of the European Commission’s “Joint Research Centre”) asserts that “Internet users do not view illegal downloading as a substitute to legal digital music,” and reports that the authors of the study found “no evidence of digital music sales displacement.” What’s most ‘impressive’ about…
