By now, you’ve probably seen the news that U.S. District Judge Louis Stanton has awarded summary judgment to YouTube in Viacom v. YouTube, and you’ve probably read the salient quotes from the decision, as well. Rather than add to the number of blogs that have talked about what the decision says, and what it means,…
As this blog is operated by an anti-piracy services company, it’s natural for us to focus on intellectual property misdeeds of pirates and pirate-enablers. From time to time, however, we run across a story in which it air max 270 homme is the rights-holder (actual, presumptive, or otherwise) who acts in a way that inspires a…
Each year, the office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) puts out what it calls a “Special 301” report, a review of “the of intellectual property rights (IPR) protection and enforcement in trading partners around the word,” as the USTR put it in the Executive Summary of its 2012 edition of the report. In…
If you follow copyright law and intellectual property-related news at all, then there’s little doubt that you’ve read about “copyright trolls,” a term for which Wikipedia offers as good a definition as I’ve seen: “a pejorative term for a party that enforces copyrights it owns for purposes of making money through litigation, in a manner…
