Company Name in URL Not Copyright Infringement

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IBM faces copyright infringement suit

IBM faces copyright infringement suit 06/09/2004 07:04 PM
Zero-Knowledge Systems claims Big Blue wrongfully reproduced its privacy-language specification.

SCO settles it's own copyright
infringement case

SCO settles it's own copyright
infringement case 05/14/2004 07:31 AM
Seems SCO got caught copying content from a publishers book directly into their own documentation. They settled out of court...

AdSense Copyright Infringement Issues

AdSense Copyright Infringement Issues 06/14/2004 11:44 AM
What happens if someone uses your content, or you use someone elses content.

Copyright infringement appeal hearings

Copyright infringement appeal hearings 02/10/2004 02:47 AM

The American Ninth Circuit court has been listening to arguments about copyright infrigement and liability for filesharing applications, notably Grokster and Morpheus . A decision could shape the legal status of peer-to-peer tools for the near future.

The discussion has largely been framed in terms of the landmark 1984 Sony v Betamax case . This is an appeal for an earlier decision, where Grokster was found not liable for users' infrigements. Counsel for copyright holders argued that Betamax could be read to allow blame to be assigned to devices, and ended up considering Xerox liable for bad copying. Their opponents argued for substantial noninfringing usage, as per the Betamax decision.

Kazaa To Sue Entertainment Industry For
Copyright Infringement

Kazaa To Sue Entertainment Industry For
Copyright Infringement 01/23/2004 02:23 PM
In a move that seems likely to backfire on them partly out of the audacity of the move, Sharman Networks, the company behind Kazaa, can now sue record labels and Hollywood studios for copyright infringement. We had briefly mentioned this case back in September, but now it's been given permission to move forward. Sharman claims that the entertainment companies violated copyright law by using Kazaa Lite (which is not actually associated with Kazaa) to get on the network and monitor the file trading that was occurring. At the same time, they claim that those same companies broke the terms of service of Kazaa by sending threatening instant messages to file traders, warning them that they were distributing unauthorized music files. Sharman clearly has a stronger copyright case against the industry than the industry does against them (in that they're actually accusing the companies of copyright violation, rather than just "facilitating" copyright violations) - but, it still seems like a long shot that could reflect badly on them in their other efforts.

RIAA Files More Copyright Infringement
Suits

RIAA Files More Copyright Infringement
Suits 11/01/2003 01:56 AM
Boston.Internet.com Nov 1 2003 0:42AM ET

Politicians Don't Mind Copyright
Infringement When It Works For Them

Politicians Don't Mind Copyright
Infringement When It Works For Them 02/12/2004 12:35 PM
While House and Senate elected officials have made big deals out of the importance of intellectual property, it hasn't been on the radar screen of the Bush/Cheney administration... or has it? NBC got angry that the campaign released an online commercial for the President using footage from an interview done on NBC. The campaign insists they've done nothing wrong. Does that mean they're supporters of "fair use"? Chances are they've never actually thought about the issue, and this is yet another case of politicians who would push for more stringent intellectual property laws, while making sure to ignore them themselves when convenient.

Dutch Portal Cleared of Copyright
Infringement

Dutch Portal Cleared of Copyright
Infringement 05/16/2004 04:21 PM

Copyright Cartel Buying Another Federal
Anti-Infringement Law

Copyright Cartel Buying Another Federal
Anti-Infringement Law 05/27/2004 07:58 AM

Since law enforcement has nothing better to do, and since the victims of copyright infringement -- Hollywood studios and the music companies -- are obviously so strapped financially, Congress may soon order the Justice Department to use resources tracking file sharers and filing lawsuits against them. (Yes, I'm being sarcastic.) As Declan McCullagh reports, legislation known as the "Pirate Act" is moving with light speed through Washington -- getting not even a hearing in committee before being sent to the full Senate. Sadly, Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy, who should know better, is part of this travesty; but he's running for reelection in a state where he couldn't lose if he tried, and apparently needs more money from Hollywood. Oh, and once the government files suit -- with huge penalties -- the copyright cartel companies will still be able to file their own suits. Nothing like piling on. I'm not endorsing rampant infringement for profit, the kind of activity that truly fits the term "piracy," such as the stamping out thousands of CDs or DVDs in Malaysian and Chinese factories that deserves to be stamped out, harshly. I'm not endorsing petty infringement, either, such as downloading songs you would otherwise have bought in a store. But this kind of legislation, turning the full force of the government against penny ante infringers, is far over the top. In times like these, when there are real criminals out there, it's insane.

Yahoo Korea faces copyright infringement
suit

Yahoo Korea faces copyright infringement
suit 04/21/2004 08:56 AM
Asia Times Online Apr 21 2004 1:28PM GMT

RIAA launches another round of copyright
infringement suits

RIAA launches another round of copyright
infringement suits 05/26/2004 12:21 PM

The Recording Industry Association of America ( RIAA ) launched a new series of lawsuits against persons allegedly trading music files illegally. Nearly 500 people are in the lineup , including college students.

Nortel sues Arbinet, alleging copyright
infringement

Nortel sues Arbinet, alleging copyright
infringement 07/20/2004 05:52 PM
SiliconValley.com Jul 20 2004 9:39PM GMT

FBI Raids Arizona School District Over
Copyright Infringement

FBI Raids Arizona School District Over
Copyright Infringement 04/22/2004 09:22 AM

Colleges fighting music copyright
infringement: new report

Colleges fighting music copyright
infringement: new report 08/27/2004 01:24 PM

The Joint Committee of the Higher Education and Entertainment Communities issued a report on filesharing and copyright infringement on college campuses. The group found that awareness of copyright problems had grown, and many solutions mounted.

Moreover, looking back over the past year ,

The recording industry has sued more than 3,000 computer users since September in a campaign to stem file-sharing... So far this year, 185 people at 35 universities were among those snared in the recording industry's lawsuit campaign, according to the report.

(via EDUCAUSE )

Globalization and women, copyright
infringement in open source, ...

Globalization and women, copyright
infringement in open source, ... 01/27/2004 07:31 PM
Jan 26, 2004 ... (An actual MySQL conference took place last year and will be held again this coming April.) I have reported on some of these companies in my LinuxWorld weblog ...

Japanese professor arrested for
copyright infringement tool

Japanese professor arrested for
copyright infringement tool 05/11/2004 03:40 AM

A Japanese computer scientist was arrested for creating a software application capable of copyright infrigement. Isamu Kaneko of the University of Tokyo is charged with creating Winny , a peer-to-peer ( p2p ) program allowing users to trade files.

(thanks to Educause )

Tech groups fight copyright infringement
bill

Tech groups fight copyright infringement
bill 07/22/2004 08:21 PM
WASHINGTON - A U.S. Senate bill that would allow copyright holders to sue creators of products that "induce" copyright violations would discourage technology companies from offering new media players or other recording products, representatives of four technology groups said Thursday.

Copyright infringement suits launched by
American film industry

Copyright infringement suits launched by
American film industry 12/17/2004 06:30 PM

After some weeks of advance notice , the film industry's lobbying group has launched lawsuits against hundred of alleged copyright infringers.

One lawsuit, obtained by The Associated Press, targets 18 individuals and was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri in St. Louis.

Other lawsuits are believed to have been filed in New York, Philadelphia and other areas with large concentrations of high-speed Internet customers. Such connections are required to download the massive movie files.

(via BoingBoing )

Canadian Court Says File Sharers Not
Guilty of Copyright Infringement

Canadian Court Says File Sharers Not
Guilty of Copyright Infringement 04/09/2004 04:06 PM
"In other words, just putting files in a computer directory that other people can access is insufficient an action to constitute illegal distribution - at least under Canadian law."

Internet Distributor of Pirated Software
Sentenced for Criminal Copyright
Infringement

Internet Distributor of Pirated Software
Sentenced for Criminal Copyright
Infringement 08/31/2004 08:50 PM
FBI Sep 1 2004 0:02AM GMT

Intel sued by Canadian computer company
over patent infringement

Intel sued by Canadian computer company
over patent infringement 05/20/2004 09:51 PM
San Francisco Chronicle May 21 2004 1:16AM GMT

Intel sued by small Canadian computer
company alleging patent infringement

Intel sued by small Canadian computer
company alleging patent infringement 05/21/2004 05:39 AM
Canadian Press via Canada.com May 21 2004 9:44AM GMT

Amway Quixtar Kingpin Settles Lawsuit to
Avoid Multi-Million Dollar Charges of
Fraud, Copyright Infringement and Theft
of Trade Secrets

Amway Quixtar Kingpin Settles Lawsuit to
Avoid Multi-Million Dollar Charges of
Fraud, Copyright Infringement and Theft
of Trade Secrets 03/29/2005 03:55 AM
Maybe Dateline NBC got it right? It's a "dirty little secret" and once again, it's the public that's left in the dark about how the almighty dollar is made in this network marketing opportunity. [PRWEB Mar 29, 2005]

Wuhan Company Fined RMB200,000 For
Online Copyright Violation

Wuhan Company Fined RMB200,000 For
Online Copyright Violation 06/17/2005 04:26 PM
ChinaTechNews.com Jun 17 2005 4:51AM GMT

Idiot hosting company thinks using
BitTorrent infringes copyright

Idiot hosting company thinks using
BitTorrent infringes copyright 06/05/2005 11:42 PM
Cory Doctorow: Shawn sez, "I just posted this defense of Bit Torrent on my personal journal after receiving a C&D letter from my webhosting service demanding I stop sharing 'copyrighted' material, even though it's made very clear on my site that the files I host on my Blog Torrent install are my own creations (well, me and my friends, but they're all cool with it). The file in question is a short documentary about Booth Babes my wife and I made and posted on our site back in 2001, and the file that tipped them off was generated by my test install of Broadcast Machine (which has been mysteriously not working on my server)."

I don't want them to turn off my websites. And this is not any kind of civil disobedience, which would involve breaking a law. I'm just uploading my files to the Internet and trying out some technologies to facilitate this with the lowest demand on my webserver. If hosting companies apply some kind of blanket filter against .torrent files, that will seriously limit our ability to share media and content. It is completely unacceptable for web servers to do this kind of unmonitored regulation and threatening. What if I had been on vacation, couldn't respond, and they shut down my site in a week?

The hosting company in question is 1and1. Their phone number is 1-877-GO-1AND1. The main email address is info@1and1.com. Link Updated Link (Thanks, Shawn!)

Update: Shawn sez, "I spoke with a very nice Indian man named "Andre" who seemed to grasp the silliness of the situation. He escalated the issue to his manager, and said I should hear back within 24 hours. So I've been waiting. No reply to my email either so far.

"The story has pretty much nuked elmwoodstrip.com, which is a great local Buffalo journalling site. Out of respect for my friends there, and to keep the word out, I've reposted the entire entry on my personal site.

Canadian Copyright Board allows
downloads, copyright levies

Canadian Copyright Board allows
downloads, copyright levies 12/14/2003 12:27 PM

The Copyright Board of Canada issued a ruling on " private copying ", largely via peer-to-peer computing, with several components. First, downloading is acceptable, but uploading is not (presumably to target hyperpirates). Second, new mechanisms for levies were described, freezing current ones, allowing new charges.

the Copyright Board said uploading or distributing copyrighted works online appeared to be prohibited under current Canadian law. However, the country's copyright law does allow making a copy for personal use and does not address the source of that copy or whether the original has to be an authorized or noninfringing version, the board said.

Search Engine Marketing Company Buys
Santa Fe, New Mexico Web Development
Company

Search Engine Marketing Company Buys
Santa Fe, New Mexico Web Development
Company 03/30/2005 04:01 AM
Trafficdeveloper LLC, a Santa Fe, NM based search marketing company, is pleased to announce they have recently purchased Panorama Point Corporation, a well known Santa Fe, New Mexico based Web Development firm. [PRWEB Mar 30, 2005]

printCure Enables Direct Selling
Organizations to Offer their
Company-Branded Printed and Promotional
Products to Distributors "In-the-Field"
Through Same Web-Enabled Company Store

printCure Enables Direct Selling
Organizations to Offer their
Company-Branded Printed and Promotional
Products to Distributors "In-the-Field"
Through Same Web-Enabled Company Store 06/14/2004 06:32 AM
printCure, the cure for corporate procurement, can now be considered a "one-stop-shop" for direct selling organizations looking to automate, control, manage and consolidate the way they distribute their company's brandable print and promotional products to distributors and representatives who are in the field. [PRWEB Jun 14, 2004]

Sinotrading, an American Owned and
Operated Import/Export (Sourcing)
Company, Will Begin Training
Translators, Web Developers and Company
Executives From Chinese Manufacturing
Companies

Sinotrading, an American Owned and
Operated Import/Export (Sourcing)
Company, Will Begin Training
Translators, Web Developers and Company
Executives From Chinese Manufacturing
Companies 04/01/2005 08:57 AM
How to market to American companies thorugh the Internet in the complex world of e-commerce will be the seminar topic for Chinese company executives. [PRWEB Apr 1, 2005]

Infringement isn't terrorism

Infringement isn't terrorism 12/04/2003 08:22 PM
My colleague Jason Schultz has blogged some pithy remarks about the head of WIPO's comparison of copyright infringement to terrorism. God, how I hate the comparison of all things to terrorism, it's such shoddy rhetoric. Really: if copyright infringement is like terrorism, does that mean that our first line of defense against illicit music downloading shoud be the systematic confiscation of nailfiles and scissors from business travellers?

Mr Idris described how he had heard of children dying after using counterfeit baby shampoo and warned of the potentially disastrous consequences of relying on machines that had been made using an illicitly duplicated model.

Excuse me, but those aren't intellectual property/piracy problems. False advertising is a consumer protection issue and a problem that everyone supports eradicating...

However, there have been several documented instances where WIPO's own high protectionist patent and data registration policies are actively hurting patient access to AIDS-related drugs and other essential medicines in the third world, Africa in particular...

Link

Are TV Networks Inducing Infringement?

Are TV Networks Inducing Infringement? 07/28/2004 04:53 PM
Ernest Miller writes "Techdirt has already noted the copyr ight controversy over JibJab's version of "This Land is Your Land." Some say the flash animation is protected parody, others infringing satire. Now the Home Recording Rights Coalition points out that when the television news broadcasters promoted the humorous animation, they were likely inducing copyright infringement. This would make the television broadcasters potentially liable for millions of infringing downloads under the INDUCE Act, which Techdirt has mention ed a few times previou sly. Bonus: The HRCC's press release mentions Techdirt."

"A combination of innovation and
infringement"

"A combination of innovation and
infringement" 07/07/2004 01:08 PM

Annalee Newitz has a great article in Alternet about Mash-ups, going over the copyright laws involved and how the laws are viewed in the mash-up scene. It's an interested clash, where restrictive laws loom over digital musicians armed with low-cost computers and software that makes mixing easy. In this realm, Newitz sees mash-ups as a form of protest, where DJs knowingly violate laws in order to spread their art in the world.

As a masher on [Get Your Bootleg On] recently posted, "Everything is illegal." Under an I.P. regime where artists feel like nothing goes, it seems that everything could. The infringement generation aims to mash up copyright law in pursuit of better music. But it also has a chance to challenge social divisions more profound than the distinctions between hip-hop, rock and electroclash.

RFID tag firm over patent infringement

RFID tag firm over patent infringement 06/10/2004 08:05 AM
Computer Weekly Jun 10 2004 12:31PM GMT

Intel sued for patent infringement

Intel sued for patent infringement 05/20/2004 12:58 PM

Allnet GPL Infringement Settled
Constructively

Allnet GPL Infringement Settled
Constructively 02/19/2004 06:40 AM
Slashdot Feb 19 2004 10:20AM GMT

Trademark infringement endemic in
cyberspace

Trademark infringement endemic in
cyberspace 08/17/2004 09:29 AM
inSourced Aug 17 2004 12:13PM GMT

Cornice sued over patent infringement

Cornice sued over patent infringement 07/01/2004 08:45 AM
Computer Weekly Jul 1 2004 12:50PM GMT

"Inducing Infringement of Copyrights Act
of 2004"

"Inducing Infringement of Copyrights Act
of 2004" 06/25/2004 02:02 AM
the INDUCE Act .. bill

lessig.org/blog/archives/COE04694_LC.pdf
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Inducing Infringement of Copyrights Act
of 2004

Inducing Infringement of Copyrights Act
of 2004 06/25/2004 08:54 AM

On first read of this proposed legislation I thought it was a parody and someone was pulling a sick joke. But unfortunately a clueless legislators who has gotten some serious campain donations from the sponsors.

I get tired of having to get up on my soap box but I must and will until this madness is brought to a halt. Dan Gillmor sums it up perfectly:

"This bill, the stated purpose of which is to criminalize actions that might "induce" copyright infringement, doesn't just overrule the Sony Betamax case, which gave us the right to tape TV shows to watch later. It would turn people offering totally legitimate technology into criminals, if what they offered could also be used for infringing purposes."

The EFF has written up an example complaint that is on Gillmor's site that could be submitted if this legislation makes it to the floor of congress. I encourage your to read Dan Gillmor's article he has links to the Elected Officials we need to write to this time.

Folks won't be long before we will have to swipe our debit cards thru our multi-media devices to listen to music we have paid for or to watch TV thru the set we purchased along with the monster cable bill we have to pay every month. Think I'm joking don't you know their are associations out their that want just that. [Dan Gillmor]

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