Out in New York, which is Second Circuit territory in terms of the appellate court system, it seems a potential “split” is brewing on the question of whether online redistribution of broadcast television works constitutes copyright infringement. As John Caher of the New York Law Journal reports: In a unanimous decision, the court upheld Southern…
In comments recently submitted to the Office of the jordan femme U.S. Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator (IPEC), RapidShare’s Chief Legal Officer Daniel Raimer recommended that the U.S. government focus its efforts not on “cloud services” like RapidShare, but on the sites that “facilitate access to copyrighted material stored remotely by cloud services” — in other…
Author and professor Tim Parks published a very interesting piece on the New York Review of Books blog yesterday, entitled “Does Copyright Matter?” Along the way to answering his own question, Parks dissects some of the air max 270 pas cher traditional explanations for why copyright is a good and necessary thing, eventually arriving at…
In a post on Google’s InsideSearch blog yesterday, Senior Vice President of Engineering Amit Singhal made an announcement that should come as music to the ears of rights-holders everywhere: Google is going to start penalizing sites that receive a high number of DMCA take-down notices by ranking such sites lower in Google’s search results. Here’s…
