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ISP Claims Not To Be “Online Police”, Leaves Piracy Talks
By IT-Lex Intern Emily Pineless (LinkedIn) It has long been the practice of internet service providers to go along with the entertainment industry’s requests and identify alleged pirates. We’ve talked...
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Japan Launches Operation Decoy File To Thwart Piracy
By IT-Lex Intern Karina Saranovic (LinkedIn) As we’ve documented before, Japan has taken an aggressive stance against online piracy. Not only has the Government imposed criminal penalties on infringers...
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Targeted Facebook Ads To Become Privacy-Conscious, But Hopefully Not Self-Aware
By IT-Lex Intern Karina Saranovic (LinkedIn) After encountering heavy criticism from “ad agencies and advertisers,” Facebook has confirmed its future implementation of an “AdChoices” icon for its...
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Icelandic Anti-Piracy Group Has PR Disaster After Not Paying Software...
By IT-Lex Intern Joey Chindamo (LinkedIn) In your daily dose of Icelandic technology news, that country’s association for film copyrights is embroiled in some not-so-flattering legal drama. As News of...
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Trolls, Return To Your Bridges: IP Addresses Alone No Longer Sufficient To...
By IT-Lex Intern Joey Chindamo (LinkedIn) In an emerging and consistent body of law, a California federal court has ruled that an IP address alone is not sufficient to establish identification of an...
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Digital Manga Site To Close Down, Delete All User Purchases
Admittedly, we don’t know the first thing about Manga – the Japanese comics – here at IT-Lex, but even so, this story caught our attention this morning. JManga is a cloud-based online retailer, where...
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Good News And Bad News For Kim Dotcom
By IT-Lex Intern Joey Chindamo (LinkedIn) The Kim Dotcom saga has been an unpredictable journey so far, and two recent developments will prove, respectively, negative and positive, for the Megaupload...
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Torrent Site Guilty Of Inducement, Not Entitled To Safe Harbor Protection
By IT-Lex Intern Joey Chindamo (LinkedIn) When it comes to online file sharing, courts have repeatedly delivered beatings to the owners of file sharing websites and services. From Napster, to Grokster,...
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Prince Orders Takedown Of Multiple 6-Second Vine Videos
One of the longest-running copyright battles of the last decade has been the saga of Lenz v. Universal Music Corp. Here’s a quick summary: in 2007, Lenz posted a short clip on YouTube of her adorable...
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Pre-1972 Songs On Grooveshark Found To Infringe On Copyright
Staying in the “Copyright/Digital Music” realm, here’s a story that involves the popular Florida-based streaming music site, Grooveshark. That site has faced lengthy legal action from all the major...
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