Over on Forbes.com today, Tim Worstall asks: {W}hy is the US near unique in not having a system whereby the loser picks up both sets of legal bills? His question comes in the context of thinking of ways to prevent copyright trolling, and the sort of copyright trolling that Prenda Law has been up to,…
Normally on this blog, when we talk about copyright infringement or intellectual property theft, the perpetrators are people generally unknown to the rights-holder — for-profit pirates operating from parts unknown, file-sharing web users, and the like. After all, our business is in DMCA takedown services, so it makes sense for our focus to be squarely…
Warner Brothers, no stranger to intellectual property litigation, now finds itself on the defendant’s side of the table of a trademark lawsuit filed by… (wait for it…) the creators of the Keyboard Cat and Nyan Cat memes. Seriously…. I’m not kidding. Actually, while the idea might seem odd on its face, it sounds like at…
DMCA Force is pleased to announce that we have joined the ranks of the National Association of Recording Merchandisers (NARM), a trade association established back in 1958 to advance the business of music. So, what is NARM all about? Let’s let NARM speak for itself. The NARM mission statement is as follows: NARM advances the…
