This week, the Intellectual Property and the Internet Subcommittee of the House Committee on the Judiciary began its “comprehensive review” of U.S. copyright law, kicking things off with a he...
https://dmcaforce.com/congressional-subcommittee-begins-comprehensive-copyright-review/
Over on Forbes.com today, Tim Worstall asks: {W}hy is the US near unique in not having a system whereby the loser picks up both sets of legal bills? His question comes in the context of thinking ...
https://dmcaforce.com/the-cons-of-a-strict-loser-pays-policy/
Normally on this blog, when we talk about copyright infringement or intellectual property theft, the perpetrators are people generally unknown to the rights-holder — for-profit pirates operatin...
As this blog is operated by an anti-piracy services company, it’s natural for us to focus on intellectual property misdeeds of pirates and pirate-enablers. From time to time, however, we run ac...
https://dmcaforce.com/even-when-you-can-maybe-you-shouldnt-redux/
With an unanimous 7-0 vote, a chamber of judges with the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has rejected an appeal from Pirate Bay co-founders Fredrik Neij and Peter Sunde. In coming to the de...
https://dmcaforce.com/eu-court-of-human-rights-offers-no-solace-to-convicted-tpb-founders/
Earlier this week, I expressed disappointment in the lack of information to be found on FixCopyright.com, a website recently launched by copyright reform activist Derek Khanna. Today, I stumbled ...
https://dmcaforce.com/another-copyright-reform-website-more-detail-this-time/
Among the many stumbling blocks that face rights-holders in the Internet Age, one of the more confounding is… other rights-holders. Take, for example, the case of investigative reporter Teri Bu...
So much has been written and said about the suicide of Reddit founder Aaron Swartz that I’m torn between wanting to add my two cents and thinking that everything of value (as well as a whole lo...
https://dmcaforce.com/a-pair-of-highly-recommended-posts-about-aaron-swartz/