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April 19, 2013

YouTube Wins Another Round Against Viacom

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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. Rat

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DMCAForce
April 17, 2013

Even When You Can, Maybe You Shouldn’t, Redux

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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

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DMCAForce
April 15, 2013

Spain Tries to Keep Itself Off of USTR’s Watch List

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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 part

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DMCAForce
April 12, 2013

A Few Words About “Copyright Trolls”

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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

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DMCAForce
April 10, 2013

Issuing a Take-Down Notice; Sometimes, Even if You Can, Maybe You Shouldn’t

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Given the services that DMCA Force provides, one might reasonably assume that I'm in favor of issuing DMCA take-down notices in response to any and all apparent online infringements on a copyrighted work; one would

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DMCAForce
April 8, 2013

One Subject on Which Piracy Apologists Have a Point… To a Point

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In reading about the (inevitable) piracy of Netflix's popular original series House of Cards, and the yeezy replica evidently record-setting piracy of the third seasons premier of HBO's Game of Thrones, I'm struck b

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DMCAForce
April 4, 2013

Judge: ‘Either the Law or ReDigi Must Change’

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Back in October, I wrote briefly about Capitol Records' (a division of EMI Music) lawsuit against ReDigi, a service that allows users to store, stream, buy and sell "pre-owned" digital music. At the time, I thoug

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DMCAForce
April 2, 2013

Court Denies Broadcasters Prelim Injunction in the Aereo Case

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In a ruling that some interpret as a very bad portent for the plaintiffs'/broadcasters' claims, a panel of judges from the Second Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a lower court's decision declining the plaintiffs

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DMCAForce
March 27, 2013

Judge Rules in Favor of AP in Meltwater Case

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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 no

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DMCAForce
March 25, 2013

IsoHunt Loses Another Round in Court

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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

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