Late last month, Twitter received a DMCA takedown demand from NPG Records, Inc., Prince’s record label, to remove a six-second video hosted on Twitter’s popular new Vine application. Vine is a mobile application (currently available only on iOS systems) that allows users to create and share videos that are a maximum of six seconds long. … Continue Reading
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Subscribe to Internet RSS FeedICANN’s Trademark Clearinghouse Launches Today
Posted in Internet, TrademarksThe Trademark Clearinghouse (“TMCH”) officially launches today, March 26th. The TMCH was created to help trademark holders prevent trademark infringement or misuse in the face of new top-level domains (TLDs) that are expected to launch over the next few years. There are nearly 2,000 applications for these new TLDs, and include domains such as… Continue Reading
The Internet Goes Dark in Protest
Posted in Copyright, InternetToday, websites, companies, and individuals around the country are participating in the largest online protest in history as they battle two proposed bills currently pending before Congress, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act (PROTECT IP Act or PIPA). Google, for example,… Continue Reading
Does New Legislation Aimed at Reducing Online Intellectual Property Infringement Go Too Far?
Posted in Copyright, Internet, TrademarksTwo related bills aimed at curbing rampant copyright and trademark infringement on the Internet are currently pending before the House and Senate. While the bills have been endorsed by the RIAA and MPAA and have strong bipartisan support in Congress, they have come under fire by mainstream media and civil liberties groups who believe the… Continue Reading
New Case On Online Data Collections
Posted in Attribution, Digitization, InternetCase: CollegeSource, Inc. v. AcademyOne, Inc., 09-56528 (9th Cir., Aug. 8, 2011) What allegedly happened: A Ninth Circuit panel decided that a plaintiff company that allegedly had its online collection of college catalogs copied by the defendant company could sue in its home state of California. Plaintiff alleged that it spent $10 million dollars collecting the… Continue Reading