copyright infringement lawsuit

Back in July we wrote about our surprise at the fact that the Graduate Management Admission Council, who creates the GMAT test used as part of the admissions process for many business schools, had won a copyright infringement lawsuit against a test prep website.

There are plenty of test prep operations out there, but GMAC's complaint here was that some of the users of the site were posting questions used on the exam that they had remembered.

It's difficult to see why this is a particularly big deal.

You often hear it repeated that "ignorance is no defense" to breaking the law, but it may actually be working in one copyright infringement lawsuit.

Ray Beckerman has the details on a case where the RIAA is suing a teenager who claimed "innocent infringement" as a way to get the damages lowered from the $750 to $150,000 per file that the RIAA always pushes for.

While TorrentSpy may have shut down and lost its copyright infringement lawsuit against the MPAA, it's still appealing a separate issue: whether the MPAA broke the law in hiring a guy to break into TorrentSpy's email server and forward emails to the MPAA.

As part of a $1 billion copyright infringement lawsuit, YouTube has to turn over a 12TB database of every video ever watched on the site, complete with user IDs and IP addresses.

Viacom has now agreed that the data can first be made anonymous.

A 241 billion copyright infringement lawsuit over YouTube's ability to keep copyrighted material off its popular video-sharing site threatens how hundreds of millions of people exchange all kinds of information on the Internet, owner Google Inc. said.

When pressure from the World Trade Organisation (WTO) and the United States government caused the Kremlin to take down AllofMP3 in mid 2007, the RIAA must’ve been jumping for joy.

You may recall Bridgeport Music as a company that claims to own the rights to various musical compositions and has a long history of suing anyone who samples even the tiniest bits of that music.

The worst part is that there are very serious questions concerning whether or not it really has the rights to much of the music it claims to control.

George Clinton, for example, claims that Bridgeport used forged signatures to get control over his catalog.