Righthaven may have filed its last copyright infringement suit
September 7, 2011 by donal brown
Filed under 1st Amendment News, Copyright, News & Opinion
The controversial copyright troll, Righthaven, has not filed a lawsuit in two months after punishing court rulings against the company. The firm began over a year ago supposedly to buy copyrights from news media and file suits to stop copyright infringements. Although Righthaven is appealing the court decisions that held that it had no legal [...]
Electronic Frontier Foundation suing Righthaven over copyright
November 3, 2010 by donal brown
Filed under 1st Amendment News, Copyright, News & Opinion
EFF is representing the proprietor of nobodycases.co, a site that tracks unsolved murder cases, in a copyright suit brought by Righthaven after the site ran a Las Vegas Review-Journal story about a Nevada murder case. -db Wired November 1, 2010 By David Kravets Copyright troll Righthaven is facing its second lawsuit from digital rights group [...]
Craigslist drops adult services section
September 6, 2010 by donal brown
Filed under 1st Amendment News, Freedom of Speech / Press, News & Opinion
Craigslist removed its website sexual ads last week, replacing the link with the word “censored.” -db San Francisco Chronicle September 5, 2010 By James Temple SAN FRANCISCO – After years of mounting public pressure, Craigslist appears to have surrendered in a battle over sexual ads on its website that some viewed as a test case [...]
Online free speech: Damages a possibility in Universal Musics takedown of dancing baby
March 1, 2010 by donal brown
Filed under 1st Amendment News, Copyright, Freedom of Speech / Press, News & Opinion
A federal judge ruled that a mother could get compensation from Universal Music for forcing YouTube to remove a 29-second video of her toddler son dancing to a Prince song. -db The Recorder March 1, 2010 By Zusha Elinson Universal Music might have to pay for pulling video of a dancing baby off YouTube. U.S. [...]
Europe alarmed by U.S. government and entertainment industry negotiation stance on copyright accord
December 1, 2009 by donal brown
Filed under 1st Amendment News, Copyright, News & Opinion
Leaked European Union documents say that in choosing their position on the new international copyright accord, the U.S. and its entertainment industry does not adequately provide for balance and fairness and the rights of individual creators. -DB Wired November 30, 2009 By David Kravets The European Union is alarmed the Obama administration is lobbying on [...]
