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…
Last month, I wrote about a pair of articles published by Forbes, one by Consumer Electronics Association President Gary Shapiro, and the other by National Music Publishers’ Association CEO David Israelite. Both articles touched on the subject of scarpe basket jordan lobbying, doing so in essence to call out just how much lobbying is being…
Earlier this week, I expressed disappointment in the lack of information to be found on FixCopyright.com, a website recently launched by copyright reform activist Derek Khanna. Today, I stumbled across another website advocating copyright reform, the similarly-titled FixTheDMCA.org. Unlike FixCopyright.org, which as of this writing remains a mere email harvester page, FixTheDMCA.org is pretty specific…
