Canada’s New Anti-Abuse Copyright Notice Rules Are Being Ignored Last December, Canada amended its Copyright Act to prevent abuse of the notice-and-notice regime. As a result, copyright holders are no longer allowed to demand… March 7, 2019, 18:23 by Andy Maxwell
Omniverse Counters ACE’s “Reckless” Piracy Lawsuit, Says It’s Fully Licensed Streaming TV provider Omniverse describes the piracy lawsuit filed by the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE) as "reckless". The company has unveiled new information,… March 7, 2019, 11:49 by Ernesto Van der Sar
Pirate “Aquaman” Release Suggests iTunes 4K May Be Breached A high quality pirated copy of the movie Aquaman appeared online yesterday. The 4K release is believed to come from iTunes, which would make this… March 6, 2019, 20:35 by Ernesto Van der Sar
Former Pirate Party Leader “Trolls” Authors to Push Traffic to eBook Site Travis McCrea, the former leader of the Pirate Party of Canada, is causing quite a stir with his eBook upload site, Ebook.bike. Many authors have… March 6, 2019, 10:32 by Andy Maxwell
“Legal Product Everywhere” is Best Defense Against Football Piracy The executive vice president of strategy for Germany's powerful Bundesliga football league says that competing with piracy begins with having "legal product everywhere." It's a… March 5, 2019, 21:44 by Andy Maxwell
Rightsholders Can’t Sue Without a Copyright Certificate, Supreme Court Rules The US Supreme Court has ruled that creators can't sue someone for copyright infringement before they've obtained a copyright registration certificate. In a unanimous decision,… March 5, 2019, 13:38 by Ernesto Van der Sar
Court Sanctions Anti-Piracy Lawyer for “Willful Disobedience” A California federal court has sanctioned attorney Lincoln Bandlow for willful disobedience. Bandlow, who's a partner at Fox Rothschild where he handles hundreds of piracy… March 4, 2019, 23:16 by Ernesto Van der Sar
Notorious ‘Copyright Troll’ Outfit Hands Over its US Operations to New ‘Joint Venture’ GuardaLey, the world's most infamous 'copyright-trolling' operation in the BitTorrent space, says it has entered into a joint venture with a US company called American… March 4, 2019, 13:41 by Andy Maxwell