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Megaupload Shut Down By DOJ For Piracy

20 Jan

Megalupload, send me a file, as the song goes. Well, no more as the United States Justice Department shut the site down and arrested several executives on various charges of criminal copyright infringement. The indictment, as reported, claims the company…

 

"Julie of the Wolves" or Julie Eaten by the Wolves

10 Jan

HarperCollins is suing digital publisher Open Road Integrated Media for copyright infringement over the digital rights to Jean Craighead George’s Julie of the Wolves, a children’s book published in 1972 based on a 1971 contract with the author which gave…

 

Ninth Circuit Upholds Safe Harbors In Veoh Case

21 Dec

A while back a federal district court concluded that Internet video service Veoh was entitled to safe harbor protections under the DMCA against charges of copyright infringement made by the Universal Music Group. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed…

 

Tenenbaum File-Sharing Case Reversed on Procedure, Otherwise the Verdict Stands

21 Sep

One of the cases I’ve been covering from time to time is the copyright infringement case of Joel Tenenbaum. When we last left Mr. Tenenbaum and his lawyer, Harvard professor Charles Nesson, a jury had found liability against Mr. Tenenbaum…