After my last post discussing the necessity for notice-and-staydown to help copyright owners with the never-ending game of whack-a-mole under the DMCA, I was asked to clarify how this would work for Google Search in particular. The purpose of my post was to express the need for something better and the hope that fingerprinting technologies offer. Read more
Category: Internet
Last Chance to Register for the Copyright and Technology NYC 2016 Conference
Tomorrow is the last chance to register for the Copyright and Technology NYC 2016 Conference. The conference will be held next Tuesday, January 19th, at New York University’s Kimmel Center.
In addition to Matthew Barblan and Devlin Hartline from CPIP, participants will come from the following organizations:
- ASCAP
- BMI
- CBS
- CCIA
- Charter Communications
- Cisco
- Copyright Alliance
- Copyright Clearance Center
- Elsevier
- Entertainment Software Assn.
Endless Whack-A-Mole: Why Notice-and-Staydown Just Makes Sense
Producer Richard Gladstein knows all about piracy. As he recently wrote for The Hollywood Reporter, his latest film, The Hateful Eight, was “viewed illegally in excess of 1.3 million times since its initial theatrical release on Christmas Day.” Gladstein is not shy about pointing fingers and naming names. Read more
Join Us at the Copyright and Technology NYC 2016 Conference on January 19
Co-produced by GiantSteps, the Copyright Society, and Musonomics, the Copyright and Technology NYC 2016 Conference will be held at New York University’s Kimmel Center on Tuesday, January 19th. CPIP is a proud Media Sponsor of the event.
The conference program is available here, and registration is still open here. Read more
One Step Closer to Mega Justice: Kim Dotcom Loses Extradition Hearing
Cross-posted from the Law Theories blog.
The news broke last night that Kim Dotcom has suffered a major setback in his bid to avoid standing trial in the Eastern District of Virginia on multiple felony charges relating to his Megaupload website. Read more
BMG v. Cox: ISP Liability and the Power of Inference
Cross-posted from the Law Theories blog.
As readers are likely aware, the jury verdict in BMG v. Cox was handed down on December 17th. The jury found that BMG had proved by a preponderance of the evidence that Cox’s users were direct infringers and that Cox is contributorily liable for that infringement. Read more
Protecting Artists from Streaming Piracy Benefits Creativity and Technology
Here’s a brief excerpt of an op-ed by Devlin Hartline & Matthew Barblan that was published in The Hill:
In his recent op-ed in The Hill, Mike Montgomery argues that “[m]aking streaming copyright infringement a felony is a terrible idea” that will create “further rifts between tech and entertainment at a time when these two sectors are not only reliant upon one another, but melding.” Read more
Protecting Authors and Artists by Closing the Streaming Loophole
We’ve released a new policy brief, Protecting Authors and Artists by Closing the Streaming Loophole, by Devlin Hartline & Matthew Barblan.
They argue that in order to protect authors and artists from having their works repeatedly stolen on the internet, it is long past time to harmonize the remedies for criminal copyright infringement to reflect the ways that copyrighted works are commonly misappropriated these days. Read more
Let’s Get Real About Kim Dotcom: The Indictment Clearly Alleges Felony Copyright Infringement
By Devlin Hartline & Terrica Carrington
After countless delays, the extradition hearing against Kim Dotcom began yesterday in New Zealand. Dotcom has been indicted on several charges, including criminal copyright infringement, racketeering, money laundering, and wire fraud, in connection with his notorious Megaupload website. Read more
Ninth Circuit Gets Fair Use Wrong to the Detriment of Creators
The Ninth Circuit’s opinion in Lenz v. Universal is out, and it’s a doozy. The main issue in the case is whether a rightholder has to consider fair use before sending a DMCA takedown notice. Section 512 requires the sender to state that she “has a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.” Read more