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Megaupload Dotcom mansion raid video released

Shane McGlaun, Aug 9th 2012 Discuss [3]

We've been talking about the legal drama centering on Megaupload owner Kim Dotcom and other executives with the file sharing company for a while. The legal battle has centered on having Dotcom and other managers of the website extradited to the United States to stand trial for alleged mass copyright infringement. As the case has drawn on, courts have ruled the search warrants used in the raid on Dotcom's home were invalid. Read The Full Story

Electronic Arts taking Zynga to court over The Ville

Eric Abent, Aug 3rd 2012 Discuss [1]

Well what do we have here? Apparently Electronic Arts thinks Zynga ripped off The Sims Social and is now taking the social games giant to court. More specifically, Electronic Arts claims that Zynga committed copyright infringement with The Ville, which does look quite similar to The Sims Social. Of course, we've known that EA has felt this way about The Ville for a while now, with EA complaining about the similarities between the two since The Ville launched in June. Read The Full Story

Extradition hearing for Megaupload founders postponed until March 2013

Shane McGlaun, Jul 10th 2012 Discuss [0]

Extradition hearing for Megaupload's Kim Dotcom and the other founders of the file sharing company was set for August 6 of this year. That date would've put the hearing roughly six months after Dotcom's mansion was raided in New Zealand on a US warrant for alleged copyright infringement. That extradition hearing has now been delayed. Read The Full Story

ACTA regulations may still live hints EC chief

Chris Davies, Jul 4th 2012 Discuss [3]

The controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) may have been thoroughly spanked in a European Parliament vote today, but there are ominous indications that its proponents may not be willing to give up so readily. Comments made by European Commissioner and ACTA backer Karel De Gucht ahead of the vote suggest that the agreement could well return despite the strongly expressed opinions of the parliamentary members, using decisions on fundamental copyright rights passed by Europe's highest court. Read The Full Story

EU Court: Used software sales are a-ok

Ben Kersey, Jul 4th 2012 Discuss [1]

German company UberSoft found itself in some hot water after Oracle tried to block the company's resale of used software licenses. Now the European Court of Justice has ruled in the case, deeming that used software licenses can be resold. The court said that once a copy of the software had been sold the company waives its “exclusive right of distribution.” Read The Full Story

Megaupload case stalls as evidence seize & share judged illegal

Chris Davies, Jun 28th 2012 Discuss [0]

The massive US copyright infringement case against Megaupload founder Kim DotCom has found itself in choppy waters, after courts found search warrants used to seize data were invalid. In addition to New Zealand police acting without due process in their evidence collection, the New Zealand Herald reports, Justice Helen Winkelmann also decided that the FBI's cloning of the confiscated hard-drives was invalid, as DotCom had not given his own consent to the process. Read The Full Story

Wikipedia founder blasts “moguls of Hollywood” over copyright extradition

Chris Davies, Jun 25th 2012 Discuss [5]

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has joined a high-profile campaign protesting against copyright law, branding US attempts to extradite a UK student accused of infringement "censorship." Wales began a Change.org petition calling for the UK Home Secretary to step in and prevent the extradition, which he describes as America "trying to prosecute a UK citizen for an alleged crime which took place on UK soil." Read The Full Story

The Pirate Bay blocked by Be Broadband

Chris Davies, Jun 7th 2012 Discuss [6]

The Pirate Bay has seen another broadband provider slam down the shutters, with BeBroadband confirming it has blocked UK access to the controversial torrent search site. The move follows rival ISP Virgin Media preventing its subscribers from accessing The Pirate Bay in early May, following an April court ruling that five of the largest providers must block the site after complaints that it enabled and promoted content piracy. Unsurprisingly, BE's decision has been met with no small amount of dismay. Read The Full Story

Google scores victory: judge rules APIs not copyrightable

Ben Kersey, Jun 1st 2012 Discuss [2]

Last week the jury in the Google vs Oracle trial ruled that Google did not infringe any of Oracle’s patents, and more news has now come out of the case. The judge has ruled that APIs are not copyrightable, marking the first time a court has addressed this specific issue. The judge decided that as long as the underlying code that is written is different, “anyone is free under the Copyright Act to write his or her own code to carry out exactly the same function or specification of any methods used in the Java API.” Read The Full Story

Cost to pre-screen YouTube videos estimated at $37 billion yearly

Shane McGlaun, May 31st 2012 Discuss [2]

I think it would be pretty safe to say that most in Hollywood don't like YouTube. Hollywood movie studios have long scorned YouTube as a place where studio content is pirated and copyrights are broken. The system in place today allows copyright holders to file complaints with YouTube, and YouTube will pull the videos down (often with little or no investigation). Read The Full Story

New Zealand Court asks US for all Megaupload evidence

Shane McGlaun, May 30th 2012 Discuss [0]

It has been a while since we've heard anything in the case against Megaupload and its managers brought by the United States. The US has been trying to extradite Megaupload owner Kim Dotcom and other managers to stand trial over alleged copyright infringement among other things. Dotcom and the other Megaupload principles are still in New Zealand and have yet to be extradited. Read The Full Story

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