by anickow | Mar 22, 2012 | Cases, Commentary, Legal/Tech News, Technology
Wrapping up six years of heated litigation, Sony offered an $8 million settlement this week in a class action lawsuit led by The Allman Brothers and Cheap Trick, accusing Sony of underpaying the bands’ digital record royalties. Originally filed back in 2006,...
by julzb | Dec 1, 2010 | Commentary, Legal/Tech News
As mentioned in Robert Kolick’s post from November 3rd, LimeWire, once the most popular peer-to-peer file-sharing program on the ‘net, was ordered to shut down via an injunction issued by Judge Kimba Wood of the Southern District of New York. Just a few weeks after...
by nsims | Mar 25, 2009 | Commentary, Legal/Tech News
New Zealand’s government announced this week that their proposed “three strikes”/”graduated response” copyright law would not go into effect, and would be rewritten from the ground up.The law, which would have required ISPs to cut off...
by anickow | Nov 10, 2008 | Uncategorized |
by Holly Lance, MTTLR Associate EditorIt may be time to quit that nasty BitTorrent habit. On October 13th, President Bush signed into law the PRO-IP Act (Prioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual Property Act of 2008), which greatly increases the power...
by anickow | Oct 29, 2007 | Uncategorized |
by: Nancy Sims, Associate Editor, MTTLRIn 2003, the RIAA began a campaign to protect the music of its members by bringing infringement suits directly against individual users of file-sharing software.1 In the four years since, the RIAA has approached over...
