Orange County – It seems that there is still some fight in the recording industry.
In an October 2010 court injunction, LimeWire was ordered to stop distributing its downloading software. LimeWire is a free peer-to-peer file sharing (P2P) client program. The ruling was a major victory for the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America), which has
San Diego – The cuddly kung fu-fighting bear which drew millions to the theatres to see “Kung Fu Panda” is now the subject of a copyright infringement lawsuit.
Jayme Gordon, a Massachusetts animation illustrator, filed a complaint in federal district court in Boston claiming that DreamWorks Animation stole his idea for the panda
Los Angeles – Matt Drudge, owner of the Drudge Report, has reportedly reached an out-of-court settlement with Righthaven LLC. Righthaven is a copyright holding company founded in 2010, which acquires newspaper content and photos from its partner newspapers after learning that the content has been used without permission by online sites. Righthaven then sues
Orange County – Twitter co-founder and Square CEO Jack Dorsey has filed suit over the patent rights to Square, a device that Time Magazine named as one of the Top 50 Inventions in 2010. Jim McKelvey, a glassblowing artist turned entrepreneur has joined Dorsey in the lawsuit against Robert Morley, an associate professor of electrical engineering
Orange County – In an effort to suppress Internet piracy, President Obama has announced a set of proposed bills he will be sending for Congressional approval. The legislative proposals are designed to increase the enforcement of laws regarding intellectual property theft, specifically online piracy.
Victoria Espinel, who has been appointed by the Obama administration as
Orange County – In the ongoing battle against illegal file-sharers, Google is taking steps to remove references to the word “torrent” from its search results. The search engine site announced in December that it would work towards “making copyright work better online”, and that “terms that are closely associated with piracy” would no longer populate
Los Angeles – Zuffa’s Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) has filed a copyright infringement complaint against Justin.tv, claiming that it has not done enough to prevent pirated streams from being uploaded on its site. Justin.tv is a website that allows users to produce and watch live streaming video.
The complaint, filed in Nevada U.S. District Court, states, “Since
