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US Judge Orders Cox Communications to Pay BMG $8.4 Million

Paul Resnikoff
February 15, 2017
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A US District Court judge has now ordered Cox Communications to pay $8.4 million in fees.  That follows an earlier, $25 million judgment for copyright abuse. More bad news for Cox Communications.  After gett... Read More...

Thousands of Fraudulent Copyright Infringement Demands are Being Emailed…

Charlotte Hassan
June 24, 2016
8
The latest scammers were so good, they even fooled Cox Communications.  Here's what to watch our for... According to TorrentFreak, scammers are now using anti-piracy tracking company IP-Echelon and rights ho... Read More...

YouTube Is Now Facing Serious Scrutiny In Europe…

Charlotte Hassan
June 22, 2016
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Frustration against YouTube is now a global emotion. On Monday, 180+ music artists sent an open letter to US Congress pleading for urgent DMCA reforms.  This was part of a continued effort to prevent online ... Read More...

Google’s DMCA Takedown Notices Quadruple In Just Two Years. What’s Being Done?

Charlotte Hassan
June 21, 2016
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DMCA takedown requests are surging. Is anything being done about this? Google have been experiencing year-on-year increases in the number of DMCA takedown requests for years.  But suddenly, over the past two... Read More...

2nd Circ: Pre-72s Are Covered By DMCA Safe Harbor

Charlotte Hassan
June 16, 2016
2
DMCA safe harbors apply to pre-1972 recordings, according to a Second Circuit ruling... Today (June 16th), The Second Circuit ruled that the DMCA's safe harbors protect online hosts like YouTube, from liab... Read More...

The Internet Archive: Notice and Staydown Would Be An “Absolute Disaster”

Charlotte Hassan
June 7, 2016
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Copyright holders vs. Content platforms... For some time now, content creators and major rights holders have been fighting for the current takedown system to be reviewed. They have been struggling to control... Read More...

Music Devaluation Is a Myth, Google Tells Congress

Charlotte Hassan
April 18, 2016
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We are not devaluing music at all, Google reiterates... Google has previously claimed that it is impossible to devalue music, as songs will always be worth different things to different people at different t... Read More...
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Twitter Sued For Blatant DMCA Takedown Violations

Charlotte Hassan
January 14, 2016
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Twitter is being accused of serious copyright infringement, due to ignoring several DMCA takedown requests. Like so many user-generated sites, Twitter is often used to host or link to copyright infringin... Read More...
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Google Responds: ‘Take Down Stay Down Is Unjustified’

Charlotte Hassan
December 1, 2015
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What if 'Takedown' became 'Take down, Stay down' for obvious, repeated infringers?  Unsurprisingly, Google hates the idea. Major copyright holders have been struggling to control massive online infringement ... Read More...
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Google Declares War on ‘DMCA Intimidation’ (Official Statement)

Paul Resnikoff
November 22, 2015
9
The following declaration was posted late last week on Google's Public Policy blog by Google Copyright Legal Director and former Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) attorney Fred von Lohmann. A Step T... Read More...

Federal Judge Rules That Cox Communications Isn’t Protected by the DMCA

Paul Resnikoff
November 21, 2015
49
top   Last year, two music publishers had the balls to sue a major ISP, an expensive and risky undertaking.  Now, that gamble is paying off: late last week, a federal judge ruled that Cox Communicati... Read More...
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Playboy Sues MediaTakeOut Over Nude Azealia Banks Photos

Paul Resnikoff
September 10, 2015
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“Upon information and belief, defendant knowingly altered and/or falsified copyright management information to conceal defendant’s infringement of plaintiff’s registered and unregistered copyright works.” ... Read More...

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