IPNews® – One of MySpace’s founders’ was slapped with a $6.6 million default judgment Tuesday in a a copyright infringement case several music publishers brought over his posting of the lyrics of hundreds of songs on his websites without negotiating a licensing deal.
Warner Chappell Music Inc. Peermusic and Bug Music Inc. had sought $100,000
IPNews® – A New York federal judge on Wednesday shut down the Authors Guild’s copyright infringement lawsuit against the HathiTrust over its book scanning and digitization project, ruling that the project constitutes fair use.
The HathiTrust, a group of researchers and academic institutions, is embarking on a massive preservation project to digitize the contents of
IPNews® – A group of major television and movie studios told a Manhattan federal judge on Monday that they deserve summary judgment on their claims that Lime Wire LLC induced widespread copyright infringement on its users’ part by allowing rampant illegally downloading of the studios’ shows and films.
The studios asked for the same ruling
IPNews® – A Virginia federal judge on Friday denied Megaupload Ltd.’s motion to dismiss the U.S. government’s massive criminal copyright infringement case agains the online media storage and download service, its founder Kim Dotcom and seven other employees.
The New Zealand-based Megaupload had argued that the company could not be properly served with a summons
IPNews® – YouTube LLC on Wednesday announced it is making changes to its Content ID copyright enforcement system to improve the appeals process for users targeted for infringement and takedown claims, as well as the technology that detects unintentional claims and matches copyrighted content to videos uploaded.
Users will now have an extra stage of
IPNews® – Legendary comic book creator and artist Todd McFarlane attacked an ex-employee in Arizona federal court last week for trademark and copyright infringement, after the ex-employee published a book claiming to have inspired McFarlane’s popular Spawn character in the 1990s.
Ex-employee Al Simmons gave McFarlane permission in 1992 to use his name as the
IPNews® – Google Inc. announced Thursday that it has put to rest the Association of American Publishers’ long-running copyright infringement case over Google’s scanning and digitization of copyrighted material for its online book archive project.
Under the deal, publishers will be able to choose whether to make their scanned books available digitally through Google if
IPNews® – Kanye West is facing new copyright infringement claims filed last week by a record label alleging he licensed the Eddie Bo song “Hook & Sling” for use on one single song on last year’s album “My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy,” but then used the sample in a number of unauthorized ways.
While the
IPNews® – The estate of author Mario Puzo on Wednesday lost its bid to invalidate a 1969 agreement granting copyrights in the “Godfather” series of novels to Paramount Pictures Corp.
Paramount is suing the estate for copyright infringement over its plans to publish a prequel to the “Godfather” novels. The estate’s counterclaims seeking to cancel
IPNews® – An actress in the anti-Muslim video “Innocence of Muslims” that sparked violent uprisings across the globe sued Google Inc. and YouTube LLC in Los Angeles federal court Wednesday over alleged copyright violations in the unauthorized use of her performance in the video.
Google and YouTube have refused to take the video down despite