by bfin | Apr 24, 2012 | Commentary, Legal/Tech News, Legislation/Regulations
Last month, copyright students at Michigan Law were able to engage in a Q&A after a presentation from Alfred Perry, the VP of Worldwide Content Protection at Paramount Pictures. The topic? SOPA, PIPA, and the legal issues that surround file-sharing websites, like...
by lkoskey | Feb 12, 2012 | Commentary
In the days leading up to the Super Bowl the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) seized $4.86 million worth of counterfeit merchandise and 307 websites. 291 of those sites were engaged in selling counterfeits, and the other 16 were set to stream...
by ericajan | Feb 4, 2012 | Commentary, Legislation/Regulations, Technology
The people have spoken—and the people want their digital freedom! As the 112th Congress found out just last week, the prospect of the federal government infringing on the open and free Internet has been both politically tumultuous as well as philosophically unpopular...
by bernfeld | Feb 1, 2012 | Commentary, Legal/Tech News
These were the words written in an email by Mathias Ortmann to Bram Van Der Kolk. Who, you might ask? Ortmann and Van Der Kolk are two of the recently indicted parties to the Megaupload conspiracy, and this email was publicized in the indictment. You know, that...
by lkoskey | Jan 25, 2012 | Commentary
While the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) lumbers its way through the American legislature, a remarkably similar act has found its way into legitimate law on the other side of the pond. Just in case no little chickens have been by to tell you that the internet’s...
