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 Court Re-Instates $675,000 In Damages
By DENISE LAVOIE AP Legal Affairs Writer
BOSTON September 19, 2011 (AP)
An appeals court reinstated a $675,000 verdict against a
Boston University student who illegally downloaded 30 songs and shared them on
the Internet, but left the door open for the trial judge to reduce the award
again.
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The Billion Dollar Question: When Should Internet Providers be Liable for Copyright Infringement?
3/14/2012 @ 1:03PM
Richard Busch, Contributor
At the Music Tech Summit in San Francisco last month, John
Perry Barlow, Co-Founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and former
Grateful Dead songwriter, responded to a question posed by Bob Weir, also of
the Grateful Dead, about the distribution of music on the Internet . . . The EFF believes that because a digital file
of a song or movie can easily be copied and distributed over the Internet for
free, rights holders shouldn’t be compensated when millions of users choose
torrent sites and other peer-to-peer (P2P) networks instead of paying for the song
or movie.
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Supreme Court says $675,000 fine remains
The cost of downloading: Supreme Court says $675,000 fine remains for sharing 30 songsA 29-year-old Rhode Island man is expected to pay $675,000 for the unauthorized downloading of 30 songs after the Supreme Court said on Monday that they will not weigh in on one of the record industry’s longest-running copyright infringement cases.
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$10 Settlement Offers: The Entertainment Industry’s New Copyright Tactic
$10 Settlement Offers: The Entertainment Industry’s New
Copyright Tactic By Jeff Roberts
Sep 23, 2011 1:49 PM ET
We’ve discovered that content owners are using a small
LA-based firm, Digital Rights Corp, to monitor file-sharing sites and send
waves of email offers to alleged copyright infringers. The model is novel in
that it is based on a massive scale and low-dollar amounts, and is implemented
by means of technology and third parties.
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Does Google Adsense Drive Piracy?
News from the Goolag: As Evil as They Wanna Be: Does Google
Adsense drive piracy?
July 26, 2010 Editor Charlie
It’s hard to understand why anyone who represents
songwriters or artists would do business with Google while Google is
simultaneously selling advertising on pirate websites that are selling illegal
copies of the very works that Google wants to license for its “legit” business,
such as the Google Music service (whatever new levels of innovative thievery
that thing holds).
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Property Rights are the Secret Sauce of Western Civilization
Are America's Best Days Behind Us?
"For 500 years the West patented six killer applications that set it apart. The first to download them was Japan. Over the last century, one Asian country after another has downloaded these killer apps — competition, modern science, the rule of law and private property rights, modern medicine, the consumer society and the work ethic. Those six things are the secret sauce of Western civilization."
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The Senate Judiciary Committee Convenes on Digital Theft
The Senate Judiciary Committee Convenes on Digital Theft
Wednesday, February 16th, 2011 by Sandra Aistars
By Sandra Aistars --(Yesterday) the Senate Judiciary Committee convened a diverse group of stakeholders in the internet economy for the first of what will no doubt be many public conversations in Congress this year on the topic of digital theft of American intellectual property.... Today's discussion with lawmakers is a positive development in ongoing efforts to bring more stakeholders including all manner of internet service providers and payment processors to the table (unfortunately, the two invited search engines declined to participate) to find solutions for problems that may not be solved by purely voluntary efforts alone.
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CHART OF THE DAY: The Death Of The Music Industry
CHART OF THE DAY: The Death Of The Music Industry
Jay Yarow | Feb. 16, 2011, 4:31 PM
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Illegal downloading is suffocating the music industry
Illegal downloading is suffocating the music industry
By David Joseph 10:57AM GMT 15 Feb 2011
While the music business is transforming itself to face the challenges of the digital age, widespread illegal downloading continues to damage record labels both large and small, writes David Joseph.
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Forrester: Music Industry Dying Due To Internet
By now - the beginning of a new decade and well into the 21st century - it's a story we've long come accustomed to: the music industry is dying a slow, painful, sputtering death at the hands of the Internet.
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Senate Judiciary Committee Addresses COICA Criticisms
Senate Judiciary Committee Addresses COICA Criticisms
February 17th, 2011
Alison Kelman, Contributor, BroadbandBreakfast.com
The Senate Judiciary Committee conducted a hearing Wednesday to address potential criticisms of the Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Acts (COICA), which would target websites dedicated to stealing American intellectual property.
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A Great Idea Lives Forever. Shouldn’t Its Copyright?
A Great Idea Lives Forever. Shouldn’t Its Copyright?
By MARK HELPRIN
Published: May 20, 2007
WHAT if, after you had paid the taxes on earnings with which
you built a house, sales taxes on the materials, real estate taxes during your
life, and inheritance taxes at your death, the government would eventually
commandeer it entirely? This does not happen in our society ... to houses. Or
to businesses. Were you to have ushered through the many gates of taxation a
flour mill, travel agency or newspaper, they would not suffer total
confiscation.
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