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File Sharing
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Media Law Prof Blog
The Digital Copyright Dilemma
Peter K. Yu, Drake University Law School, has published Digital Copyright and Confuzzling Rhetoric, in volume 13 of the Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment and Technology Law (2011). Here is the…
Guide Through the Legal Jungle
Internet Legal Trends to Watch. Part 4: Copyright’s Race to Keep Up with the Internet?
Along with the entry of internet access into more homes and into our daily lives comes more opportunities for piracy and new attitudes about copyright law. In response, content owners…
Law Practice Tips
Cool Tools – Dropbox
By Jim Calloway
I've decided to create a new category today called Cool Tools. These tools will primarily be very useful and practical tools that can be used in a law practice, but…
Workplace Privacy, Data Management & Security Report
Federal Contractors To Deal With Federal File Sharing Concerns
Under a measure passed overwhelmingly by the U.S. House of Representatives (408-13), federal contractors would be required to adopt measures established by the Office of Management and Budget to limit…
Land Use Prof Blog
Edwards on Acceptable Deviance and Property Rights
Mark A. Edwards (William Mitchell) has posted Acceptable Deviance and Property Rights. The abstract:Compliance with – or deviance from – law is often dependent upon the law’s convergence with –…
informed.JD
Drop.io makes file sharing drop-dead-easy!
By John DiGilio
As e-mail systems crack down on the size of files that users are allowed to receive, it is becoming increasingly difficult to share large documents, media clips, and other big…
Media Law Prof Blog
The Impact of the “Pirate Bay” Decision
Michael A. Carrier, Rutgers University School of Law, Camden, has published "The Pirate Bay, Grokster and Google." Here is the abstract.The Pirate Bay. Three simple words. Such strong reactions. Proponents…
Media Law Prof Blog
File Sharing in Finland
Herkko A. Hietanen, Helsinki Institute for Information Technology, and Pekka Räsänen, University of Turku, have published "Reasons Affecting Frequency of File-Sharing Among Finnish Internet Users." Here is the abstract. The article…
Media Law Prof Blog
Pirate Bay Has New Owner
Swedish company Global Gaming Factory X has purchased The Pirate Bay for more than four million pounds, assuring rights holders that they will get royalties, unlike the policy of the…
New Media and Technology Law Blog
Emerging Media Meets Common Law Writ in Federal Court. Result: No Webcasting for You!
The copyright lawsuits brought by record company plaintiffs to redress file-sharing have yielded many decisions of first impression. However, the recent ruling by the First Circuit in In re Sony…