In a decision delivered on February 4, 2010, the Federal Court of Australia (see Wikipedia entry here) ruled that Australian Internet Service Provider (ISP) iiNet could not be held liable for unauthorized downloads of copyrighted movies by its customers (Roadshow Films Pty Ltd v iiNet Limited (No. 3)). The applicants were a coalition of thirty-four [...]
This week on the STLR radar:
Freedom to Tinker conducts a “census” of files shared through BitTorrent, finding 99% of them to infringe copyright.
From Business Week: a Pittsburgh couple is suing Google for trespass because Google posted pictures of their residence, including their pool and driveway.
Italy will hold YouTube liable for uploads that infringe copyright or [...]
The RIAA’s suit against Jammie Thomas-Rasset for sharing music files looks like it is headed for a third trial. In order to avoid this trial, Thomas-Rasset would have to accept the settlement offered by the RIAA. Her lawyers have stated that she will not accept it, reports Wired, making another trial likely. The lawsuit has [...]
Microsoft filed a patent infringement lawsuit against TiVo on January 19, 2010. What does this filing mean for TiVo and its meteoric litigation campaign?
As Core Business Fades, TiVo is Turning to IP Licensing
People love their DVRs. More specifically, they love their TiVo DVRs. TiVo was one of the first DVR providers (RIP Replay TV [...]
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Ephemerallaw assess the chances of Microsoft being sued for the Internet Explorer 6 vulnerability involved in the hacks recently suffered by Google, Adobe and other major companies.
Billboard.biz reports that search engine Baidu, Google’s arch-rival in China, has won a piracy case brought by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry [...]
Google’s recent announcement that it is no longer willing to censor content on its China-based search engine, google.cn, has once again highlighted the difficulties U.S.-based online service providers face in the Chinese market. The reason given by Google for the move was a “highly sophisticated and targeted attack on [its] corporate infrastructure originating from [...]
The latest on the STLR radar:
More on Google and China: U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton condemned countries that use cyberattacks, reports the New York Times. Meanwhile, from the Wall Street Journal, Google affirmed its commitment both to remaining in China and to ceasing censorship of its search results.
The company Legal River has released online [...]
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Twitter is a source of evidence for a murder charge, reports the New York Daily News. But could those tweets be copyrighted? Law.com’s Law Technology News weighs in.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation provides a good, link-heavy analysis of the unanswered questions surrounding Google’s decision to stop censoring their Chinese services.
For [...]
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Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker in San Francisco decided to allow showing the trial challenging California’s Proposition 8 on YouTube, reports the San Francisco Chronicle. The Wall Street Journal Law Blog questions whether that’s a good thing.
Patent Librarian notes that Wikipedia citations in patent applications are up 59%, [...]
Happy New Year! We bring you the last links from the second half of December 2009 on the first day of 2010.
Clever or illegal? How online retailer Amazon escapes paying sales tax (and saves you from it as well), from Gizmodo.
South Korea pardons former chairman of Samsung… a second time. From the Wall Street Journal.
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