RIAA has entered a new stage in its fight to tame wild college students. In addition to suing students directly, it's pressed the school themselves with limited progress to restrict access to P2P...

Another week, another Hollywood lawsuit against a web sharing site. This time it's Warner Music and imeem. Imeem has attracted a lot of visitors for its user-content sharing service. It claims a...

In RIAA copyright infringement case Elektra v. Dennis, the defendant stated that he has doesn't have or know how to use P2P file sharing software and has never had or downloaded music files. RIAA...

In Capitol v. Foster: Justice At Last and RIAA Lawsuit Setback: Defendant Wins Attorney Fees, defendant Debbie Foster of Oklahoma was granted attorney fees. RIAA dropped the suit against the mother...

Other content companies are piling on top of YouTube in the wake of Google's purchase (a defendant with huge cash reserves) and Viacom's monster $1 billion copyright infringement lawsuit....

RIAA is taking a new tactic in its fight on pirates of all stripes - jump on the Bush administration bandwagon to create a police state. The Bush administration, fresh on the heels of its success on...

In RIAA copyright infringement case Lava v. Amurao, the defendant has successfully raised an interesting legal theory of copyright misuse. Judge Charles L. Brieant rejected RIAA's motion to...

In "A Great Idea Lives Forever. Shouldn't Its Copyright?" Mark Helprin writes "No good case exists for the inequality of real and intellectual property, because no good case can...

The RIAA has dropped a RIAA copyright infringement in BMG v. Thao after accepting that the defendant was incorrectly named by the ISP. The ISP identified Mr. Thao as holder of the account whose IP...

Attorney Ray Beckerman is bringing out a big gun in RIAA copyright infringement case UMG v. Lindor. Beckerman announced the appointment of expert Prof. Johan Pouwelse, Assistant Professor in the...

Science fiction author Spider Robinson wrote a brilliant story about copyrights 25 years ago, long before the ongoing fight we have today. "Melancholy Elephants" won the 1983 Hugo Award for...

The Dutch web stie dsb-tracker.org has been shut down by BREIN, a Dutch anti-piracy organization. dsb-tracker.org was a Dutch language BitTorrent site with 8,300 registered users that stored torrent...

In a move that smacks of desperation, RIAA has attacked the opposing counsel in Lava v. Amurao. RIAA opposed an Electronic Frontier Foundation motion to file an amicus brief based on its objection to...

A federal judge ruled that online music services from companies like Apple, RealNetworks, and Yahoo do no have to pay a performance fee when a customer downloads a digital song. The music...

After two years RIAA's lawsuit against Patricia Santangelo has been dismissed with prejudice. RIAA cannot file again in the future against Ms. Santangelo. The only matter open is whether Ms....

Is a music download a public performance? That defies logic. But songwriters through the three major music performing rights clearinghouses - ASCAP, BMI and SESAC - would have it so. ASCAP filed suit...

Physical pirates who churn out counterfeit CDs and DVDs say that the P2P networks, the so-called digital pirates, are ruining their business. TorrentFreak published a profile of Tony, a UK...

Stanford law professor Lawrence Lessig notes the ironies in copyright law in "Make Way for Copyright Chaos." The controversial 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act was crafted as a...

TALES FROM THE PUBLIC DOMAIN: BOUND BY LAW? is published by The Study of the Public Domain program at Duke University Law School Center. The comic book illustrates copyright law, including the...