copyright infringement

MPAA Wants Megaupload User-Data Retained for Lawsuits — Update

March 21, 2012 17:40

Hollywood studios are mulling a massive copyright litigation campaign that entails suing individual users of Megaupload, the file-sharing service that shuttered in January in the wake of federal indictments targeting its operators on allegations of facilitating wanton infringement. The site had...

Zynga vs Everybody: The Battle Over Online Game Intellectual Property

Mark Methenitis
March 07, 2012 12:30

As we have pointed out before, it is always useful to examine any game industry lawsuits by considering what they say about the business of buying and selling games. The longer you have been playing, the more you know how much things have changed. As the pixel count climbs upwards, so have the...

Aereo vs. the Broadcasters

Kevin Goldberg
March 06, 2012 21:54

Another day, another way to move video to the Internet . . . and another set of lawsuits. Welcome to the latest bout in the Alternate Video Delivery System Smackdown Series. In this corner, the upstart challenger, Aereo (formerly known as Bamboom Labs, Inc.); in that corner, pretty much every...

"Stealing Idea" Suit Dismissed on Summary Judgment

Tonya Gisselberg
March 03, 2012 00:12

Frank Coble accused Anita Renfroe of stealing his idea for a song and filed suit against her, alleging copyright infringement and the trademark law claims of unfair competition and false designation of origin.  The district court granted Renfroe’s motion for summary judgment on both the...

Is Target Seeing Red Over J.C. Penney’s New Look?

info@fed-soc.org
March 02, 2012 14:30

When I moved to Minneapolis four years ago, I mentioned in passing that there was a noticeable lack of Wal-Marts in the suburbs surrounding the Twin Cities. I don’t have a particular affinity for shopping at Wal-Mart, it was just a casual observation. Still, the friends I was with at the time...