Monthly Archives: February 2011

Friday’s Endnotes – 02/25/11

Terry Hart • February 25, 2011 • Posted in Friday's Endnotes • Comments closed

Preliminary injunction against ivi TV — The online TV service thought it had discovered a loophole in the law, but the judge didn’t buy it. What jumped out at me was this bit from the section on irreparable harm: “In copyright cases, harm can often be irreparable either in light of possible market confusion, because it is [...]

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Golan v Holder

Terry Hart • February 22, 2011 • Posted in Copyright news • Comments closed

A lawsuit filed a decade ago has made its way to the Supreme Court. Plaintiffs for Golan v. Holder filed a petition for writ of cert to the Court back in October. Briefing for the cert stage was completed earlier this month, and the Center for Internet and Society has links to the petition, response, [...]

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Friday’s Endnotes – 02/18/11

Terry Hart • February 18, 2011 • Posted in Friday's Endnotes • Comments closed

I’ve decided to start doing a weekly wrap-up of items I’ve found interesting enough to share, a mix of old and new, legal and nonlegal, relating in some way to copyright and the content industries. Enjoy! Would the Bard Have Survived the Web? — From Authors Guild president Scott Turow, executive director Paul Aiken, and [...]

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Can Google Be Seized By ICE?

Terry Hart • February 15, 2011 • Posted in Copyright news • Comments closed

Is Google in danger of being seized by ICE for facilitating copyright infringement? It seems quite a few people have asked that question in the wake of ICE’s Operation in Our Sites, which seized the domain names of pirate sites last July, November, and, most recently, a few weeks ago. John Moe, of American Public [...]

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The Reverse Class Action Lawsuit: Challenges of Enforcing Copyright Online

Terry Hart • February 10, 2011 • Posted in Copyright news • Comments closed

The latest technique to appear in the struggle against online infringement is the “reverse class-action” lawsuit. Earlier this month, OpenMind Solutions, a producer of adult films, filed suit against a defendant class consisting of all persons “engaged in copyright infringement activity via BitTorrent file sharing protocol during relevant time period” of its films. A class [...]

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Super Bowl Seizures

Terry Hart • February 4, 2011 • Posted in Copyright news • Comments closed

ICE is back at it, seizing the domain names of 10 sites allegedly involved in streaming live sports online — a week before the Super Bowl. One of the sites involved in this latest round of seizures has previously been successful against charges of copyright infringement in a Spanish court, leading to many questions about [...]

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