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Facebook sued by rapper Eminem’s Eight Mile Style over copyright infringement

Brittany Hillen, May 21st 2013 Discuss [0]

Late yesterday, Facebook was hit by a lawsuit from Eight Mile Style, the publisher that controls rapper Eminem's music, including licensing rights, and, if necessary, legal action when someone infringes on those rights. Such is the nature of the allegations being made against the social network, which is said to have used music from Eminem's song "Under the Influence" in its Facebook Home video called "Airplane." Read The Full Story

EA no longer paying gun makers for naming rights

Craig Lloyd, May 8th 2013 Discuss [0]

In an effort to slowly cut ties with various gun and weapon manufacturers, it's reported that Electronic Arts will stop paying gun makers for the privilege of using real gun names in their video games, but will still continue to use real names without paying for the naming rights, saying that they retain the right to depict real guns without a license. Read The Full Story

Warner Bros. hit with lawsuit over Keyboard Cat and Nyan Cat use

Brittany Hillen, May 2nd 2013 Discuss [0]

If you've never seen Keyboard Cat or Nyan Cat, welcome to your first day on the Internet. That aside, both videos, one lovable and the other maddening in a good way, are the source of a lawsuit against Warner Brothers due to its use of them without permission, credit, or compensation to their creators. Game developer 5th Cell was also tagged in the lawsuit. Read The Full Story

Pirates suggest Copyright Alert System inefficient with crowdsource tests

Brian Sin, Apr 29th 2013 Discuss [0]

On February 25th, several United States ISPs got together and decided to launch the Copyright Alert System (CAS) in order to stop online piracy. With the CAS, ISPs would be able to detect when one of their users downloaded files illegally, and they would issue a warning to the user. The ISPs call it the "6 strikes" program, where the user would be warned up to 6 times, with each consecutive warning being more aggressive than the previous. Pirates from all around wanted to test out just how efficient the new CAS system was. Read The Full Story

Game dev releases sabotaged torrent to teach pirates with irony

Chris Davies, Apr 29th 2013 Discuss [0]

Game piracy isn't just something that affects big studios, and it can have a huge impact on smaller teams; that's why the coders behind Game Dev Tycoon decided to release their own cracked version, albeit with a moral lesson hardcoded for pirates. Fully expecting a cracked copy of the game to surface shortly after the $7.99 Game Dev Tycoon was released, Greenheart Games pipped the pirates to the post and added a torrent of their own. However, what downloaders didn't realize was that the cracked version had a bug the authentic one didn't: players would inevitably run into the effects of game theft. Read The Full Story

Apple fined $118,000 for China copyright infringement

Craig Lloyd, Apr 25th 2013 Discuss [0]

Apple has been ordered by a Chinese court to compensate three Chinese writers for infringing their copyrights. Apple made the authors' books available in iBooks without first seeking their permission. The Cupertino-based company will have to pay up 730,000 Yuan ($118,000) to the three writers for copyright infringement. Read The Full Story

Lawsuit attempts to use six-strikes copyright system in case against Verizon subscriber

Brittany Hillen, Apr 3rd 2013 Discuss [0]

Verizon, which just recently finished its acquisition of Mohave Wireless, has been pulled into a copyright legal spat, with a studio that produces adult films having subpoenaed the ISP for copies of its six-strike alerts against the individual being sued. That's not all the information the studio wants, however, with it prying farther into the subscriber's Internet usage. Read The Full Story

Six-strike Copyright Alert System goes into effect today

Craig Lloyd, Feb 25th 2013 Discuss [0]

As mentioned previously, the Copyright Alert System goes into effect starting today, which gives internet service providers the power to issue six strikes to it users before throttling your internet. It sounds pretty intense and lenient at the same time, since six strikes is quite a few times to screw up before the ISP calls it enough. Read The Full Story

Google under attack by anti-piracy groups over DMCA takedown limits

Craig Lloyd, Feb 19th 2013 Discuss [0]

Google currently allows copyright holders to request a takedown from the search giant's search results, but they only allow 10,000 URL requests per day, which just isn't enough for some copyright holders nowadays, and they're fighting with Google to raise the limit to 40,000 requests per day, which is supposedly enough for companies to request without reaching a cap. Read The Full Story

Twitter releases Q3-Q4 2012 transparency report

Craig Lloyd, Jan 28th 2013 Discuss [0]

Twitter released its second transparency report, and this one focuses on the second half of 2012, while the first report focused on the first half. The report highlights the number of information requests, government removal requests, and copyright takedown notices that Twitter received throughout the year. In total, the social media service received 1,858 information requests, 46 removal requests by the government, and a whopping 6,646 copyright takedown notices. Read The Full Story

Movie studios’ automated takedown requests target legitimate links

Brittany Hillen, Dec 3rd 2012 Discuss [0]

In what may end up becoming a legendary moment of public embarrassment, several movie studios have issued DMCA takedown notices to Google for legitimate content, including official Facebook pages, Wikipedia entries, and legal copies of their own movies. This is the by-product of automated takedown requests submitted on behalf of the studios by YesItIs.org, which has since gone offline, indicating that perhaps the issue isn't as straight-forward as it seems. Read The Full Story

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