“A group of prominent Chinese writers have demanded millions of dollars in compensation from technology giant Apple Inc. for allegedly selling unlicensed versions of their books in its online store.” Read more about this here.

For millions of people, downloading music and movies illegally is just a way of life.  Whether it is to save money or the mere convenience of the matter, millions of people around the globe resort to illegal downloading on a day to day basis.  While many individuals grew up using Napster, the fact is that [...]

The Sports Blawg with the Fordham Sports Law Forum At a news conference prior to this year’s Super Bowl, New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady mentioned that he watched last year’s Super Bowl “on an illegal Super Bowl website,” while in Costa Rica recovering from a foot injury.  Brady’s comment underscored the widespread availability of [...]

Check out this article over at New York Times to see on which side of the piracy debate you think you might fall? Thanks to staffer Jonathan Brewer for the link!

If you were to find yourself in Warsaw last week, you might have thought you stumbled onto the set of a V for Vendetta sequel. The crowds of people donning Guy Fawkes masks were actually protesting the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA); an international trade agreement which seeks to create uniform standards for enforcing intellectual property [...]

IPLJ BLOG FEATURE: From the Desk of the Editor Each month, Editor-in-Chief Jacqueline McMahon weighs in on topics and legal issues covered in the IPLJ. This month Jacqueline discusses piracy on the Internet. Pirates are everywhere nowadays.  Pirates in the Indian Ocean.  Pirates in the movie theaters.  Pirates on the web. Some people define piracy [...]

Do you live in the European Union? Do you share copyrighted music or other files over the Internet illegally? Congratulations! You can keep pirating that music without having to worry about your Internet service provider monitoring your file sharing activity and filtering out the illegal data. The highest court in the EU ruled this past [...]

And now there is a study that proves it. From InfoJustice: “The Copy Culture survey was sponsored by The American Assembly, with support from a research award from Google.  The content of the survey and its findings are solely the responsibility of the researchers.  The U.S. survey was conducted by Princeton Survey Research Associates International. [...]

Another mass porn downloading lawsuit is dismissed after a judge realized that the plaintiffs were voluntarily dismissing all of the defendants that went to court to defend themselves. The plaintiffs were only using the court-ordered subpoenas as a method to extort settlements from people not willing to make the trip to court.

From NYMag: “Last year, Voltage Pictures announced that it was planning to sue tens of thousands of Internet users who’d downloaded The Hurt Locker via BitTorrent, and 24,583 defendants were named when the production company filed its lawsuit several months ago. Unfortunately, things haven’t gone so well since then, and Voltage has voluntarily dropped more [...]