Almost missed this one, but Eric Goldman alerts us to the dozen comments filed with the US Copyright Office concerning its plan to force everyone to keep re-registering their official DMCA agent in order to keep retaining the DMCA’s safe harbors. As w… Continue reading →

John Lennon’s “Happy Christmas (War is over)” song used to be routinely played on the radio towards the end of the year, but it seems that folks either “like” or “really hate” holiday songs (and that Baby Boomers are still in control of popular holiday… Continue reading →

Righthaven has a pretty long history of totally screwing up. And in the last month or so, it’s simply been not showing up at all. It seems both trends have continued. Righthaven had indicated that it was focusing much of its efforts on its appeals i… Continue reading →

A few months back, an anonymous actress sued IMDB (or rather, Amazon, IMDB’s owner) for revealing her age, kicking off several rounds of WTF and some rather more serious discussions about “ageism” in Hollywood. The unnamed plaintiff’s case hinged upon … Continue reading →

Thanks to the rise of “ownership society” where intellectual property maximalists like to push the concept that you can “own” ideas, any time there’s a remotely successful book, movie or TV show, we hear about lawsuits from people insisting that the id… Continue reading →

Back in September, we wrote about a situation at the University of Wisconsin-Stout, where campus police couldn’t be bothered to actually read the text on a post put up by professor James Miller, which referenced a quote in the pilot episode of Firefly,… Continue reading →

In the past we’ve talked about the horrors of libel tourism — mostly involving the UK. That’s where a plaintiff living outside the UK sues a defendant also outside the UK for defamation… in the UK. The reasoning is that the UK’s defamation laws ar… Continue reading →

TorrentFreak has the story of an Indian court seemingly having no problems issuing widespread ISP blockades in response to a request from movie studio Reliance Entertainment. The reasoning is that Reliance is hoping to prevent the file sharing of its … Continue reading →

A whole bunch of you have been sending in the recent NY Times article that details how singer Cee Lo Green is making $20 million this year, even as the sales of his album have been considered just so-so, based on traditional industry metrics. The arti… Continue reading →

Joe Lieberman is at it again. And by “it,” I mean throwing around the word “terrorist” as an excuse to further sanitize the web for our “protection.” Having already talked Google into allowing users to flag Youtube videos as “terrorist,” Lieberman went… Continue reading →