April 28th, 2009 | Published in All Articles, Copyright Infringement, Legal Risks, Legal Rulings, News Articles
Written By JIM FITZGERALD
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) – After battling a suburban family for four years over music downloads, the recording industry has agreed to accept $7,000 – paid in installments – to settle its federal piracy lawsuit.
April 22nd, 2009 | Published in All Articles, Copyright Infringement, Data Loss, Identity Theft, Legal Rulings, News Articles
Posted by Richard Koman @ April 22, 2009 @ 10:34 AM
LimeWire is in the hot seat as the flagship P2P application. This time the issue is not music file sharing but security breaches through inadvertent file sharing. A House committee has sent letters to Lime Group chairman Mark Gorton, the FTC and the Justice Department, announcing that it would reopen a previous investigation into the problem.
April 13th, 2009 | Published in All Articles, Copyright Infringement, News Articles
Written by John Lister
A professor specializing in copyright law says that the justice system devised for prosecuting illegal file-sharers is out of control. She argues that it “has evolved in a manner that results in too many arbitrary, inconsistent, unprincipled, and grossly excessive awards and that reform is needed.”
April 7th, 2009 | Published in All Articles, Copyright Infringement, News Articles
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Washington Post – Amid the speculation today about whether The Beatles’ digital remastering is a prelude, finally, to online retail, here are a couple of sobering data points worth considering … Long story short: the Fab Four are already losing huge amounts to illegal downloading.
February 20th, 2009 | Published in All Articles, Copyright Infringement, News Articles
Written by John Paczkowski - Posted on February 20, 2009 at 7:35 AM PT
U2 manager Paul McGuinness must be beside himself. Despite the band’s best efforts to prevent its new album, “No Line on the Horizon,” from appearing prematurely on the Internet, copies are being distributed there a week prior to its scheduled release.
October 20th, 2008 | Published in All Articles, Copyright Infringement, Cost of P2P, Educational, Legal Risks, News Articles
Inside Higher Education News – October 20, 2008
Colleges have been asserting for months — in an effort to persuade Congress not to impose new requirements on them to fight illegal file sharing — that they‟re spending big bucks to monitor, prevent and discipline online behavior that could run afoul of copyright law. But lawmakers ignored their pleas and added several new mandates to the Higher Education Act in August.
April 16th, 2008 | Published in All Articles, Copyright Infringement, Government, Legal Rulings, News Articles
WASHINGTON–A prominent Senate Democrat on Wednesday said federal and local police should use custom software to monitor peer-to-peer networks for illegal activity, and he wants to spend $1 billion in tax dollars to help make that happen.
March 15th, 2007 | Published in All Articles, Copyright Infringement, Educational, Legal Risks, News Articles
By Mitch Bainwol and Cary Sherman
As many in the higher education community are well aware from news coverage here and elsewhere, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), on behalf of its member labels, recently initiated a new process for lawsuits against computer users who engage in illegal file-trafficking of copyrighted content on peer-to-peer (P2P) systems. In the new round of lawsuits, 400 of these legal actions were directed at college and university students around the country. The inclusion of so many students was unprecedented. Unfortunately, it was also necessary.
March 9th, 2007 | Published in All Articles, Copyright Infringement, Legal Rulings, News Articles
A House of Representatives subcommittee lambasted college leaders Thursday for their perceived failure in stemming the illegal downloading of music and movies by students. Committee members, responding to complaints by the entertainment industry that campuses have been slow to restrict copyright infringement, pressed for answers and made vague threats about possible changes in intellectual property law that could result if higher education as a whole does not adopt a more aggressive approach.