This week, the Intellectual Property and the Internet Subcommittee of the House Committee on the Judiciary began its “comprehensive review” of U.S. copyright law, kicking things off with a hearing that included testimony from a handful of legal scholars and attorneys whose views on copyright are quite divergent. Witnesses for the subcommittee’s first hearing included…
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…
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…
