The RIAA is on the attack again, but this time, with a slightly different spin…
You might have heard about the RIAA’s case against Jeffrey Howell. He was recently sued by the RIAA for downloading and sharing music files on his computer, an act that, even if widely practiced, is legally wrong. But this case seems […]
The verdict is in…
After just 4 hours of deliberation, the jury has come back and found Jammie Thomas guilty of “willful infringement” and assessed a fine of $9,250 per song. (That comes out to $222,000 total for the 24 songs specified in the suit).
This verdict is really disappointing to me…
It isn’t the outcome itself […]
The RIAA’s infringement case against Jammie Thomas is now the hands of the jury…
Ms. Thomas is accused of downloading and sharing 24 specific music files over Kazaa, a popular P2P file sharing service. This is the first of over 20,000 copyright lawsuits brought by the RIAA over the last four years to make it to […]
Microsoft believes it intellectual property has been violated…
According to a recent article in eWeek, Microsoft is threatening to pursue litigation for alleged patent violations by open source providers, in a bid to force users to acquire their open source components from Novell - the only Linux vendor to have reached commercial terms with Microsoft over […]
Digg certainly dug itself into a hole this past week…
The guys from Digg ended up looking as clueless as the lawyers issuing take down notices. There is no ‘erase everywhere’ on the internet - take downs are pointless. Once information is on the net, any thought that it can be controlled is just […]
This looks like it was a great conference…
Michael Geist (a law professor at the University of Ottawa) had a post on his blog talking about the Digital Dystopia conference he participated in at McGill University. It was an excellent legal/regulatory focused discussion of intellectual property, copy protection, the DMCA, and the roles of government […]
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