Topic
Piracy
169 published works
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“Does Not Know Kazaa From Kazoo”
NY Lawyer (free reg req): "Piracy Suit Being Dropped Against NY Mom" (RIAA suit against 'Internet Illiterate' mom who 'does not know Kazaa from kazoo", dismissed, without prejudice).
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Mobblog: The Piracy Paradox – Innovation in Fashion
They sell jeans for $1300? The University of Chicago hosts a virtual seminar on "The Piracy Paradox: Innovation and Intellectual Property in Fashion Design."
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Chamber of Commerce Spot On Piracy
Funny when Caroline pulls the counterfeit golf club out of the counterfeit bag.
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Motion Picture Association Announces Shutdown of Swedish Piracy Site
According to the Sydney (Australia) Herald and the Hollywood Reporter, the Motion Picture Association has announced the successful shutdown of a Swedish piracy website specializing in the storage and swapping…
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Eric Priest on the Future of Music and Film Piracy in China
Eric A. Priest has published The Future of Music and Film Piracy in China via SSRN. Here is the abstract.Piracy has decimated the Chinese music and film industries. More than…
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Homeland Piracy: Use In The U.S. of Non-U.S. Marks
WSJ (free for a change) article on piracy in the U.S. of non-U.S. brands (in this case, Mexican and Filipino). Quibble: The statement that US trademark applications can go through…
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Anti-Piracy Initiatives
The US Government has announced the Strategy Targeting Organized Piracy, or STOP - a series of IP protection initiatives. One provision will allow the IP owner to obtain an injunction…
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Self-Help for Motion Picture Copyright Owners
This Washington Post article discusses a new technology which increases the distortion when a camcorder attempts to record the image on a movie screen (but does not alter the image…
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Trademark Ramifications of Spoofing, Continued
This is reportedly an email from Hilary Rosen of the RIAA to executives at Yahoo, Real Networks, AOL, and Universal Studios. It asks their assistance in combatting piracy on P2P…