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File Sharing
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Media Law Prof Blog
Avast There, Ye Lubbers! Buckle That Swash!
From the Hollywood Reporter: The Pirate Bay, the file-sharing site made famous for its willingness to infringe copyright laws, is abandoning Sweden's bandwidth for what it seems to consider friendlier…
Media Law Prof Blog
Another Pirate Bay Ruling
Axel Arnbak, Institute for Information Law (IVir, University of Amsterdam), has published Blocking the Pirate Bay: Will the Dutch Court Ruling Hold in Appeal? Case Note Rechtbank's-Gravenhage 11 Januari 2012…
Colorado Homeowners Association Law
Be Careful What Your Neighbors Surf For…
As community association attorneys, we are experienced in negotiating contracts with broadband service providers for our clients. These contracts allow the provider to enter a condominium's common areas to install…
Intellectual Property News.com
Eighth Circuit Upholds $200K+ Kazaa File-Sharing Copyright Infringement Damages
IPNews® - The Eighth Circuit on Tuesday affirmed a $222,000 copyright infringement verdict against a Minnesota woman whom the major record labels accused of sharing copyrighted songs through the peer-to-peer…
Tom Mighell
More Ways to Get Files into Your Dropbox
By Tom Mighell
Back in December 2010, I mentioned a few services that would you or others to send files to your Dropbox files, without actually having access to Dropbox. Since that time,…
The Trademark Blog
MegaUpload v UMG 512(f) Complaint
The story so far. MegaUpload is a file transfer site. Various music artists got together and filmed a video of a song in support of MegaUpload. UMG brought a DMCA…
International Law Prof Blog
ECJ Strikes Down Method of Preventing Illegal Filesharing in Name of Human Rights
Last Thursday, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled that a method used by music companies to prevent customers from illegally sharing music files violates customer rights of privacy and the right…
Media Law Prof Blog
The Biology of Sharing Creations
Hendrik Gommer, Tilburg Law School, has published Thou Shalt Not Share? Biological Notions in Intellectual Property Law at 2011 Berichten Industriële Eigendom 160. Here is the abstract.Music companies do not want to…
Intellectual Property News.com
U.S. Copyright Group Goes After 23,000 BitTorrent Users for Copyright Infringement
Los Angeles - In the largest Internet copyright infringement case in United States history, a federal judge is permitting the U.S. Copyright Group (USCG) to subpoena Internet service providers for…
Media Law Prof Blog
Legal, Economic and Cultural Aspects of File Sharing
Van Eijk Nico, University of Amsterdam Institute for Information Law, Joost Poort, SEO Economic Research, and Paul Rutten, Leiden University, have published Legal, Economic and Cultural Aspects of File Sharing,…