Watch Tower Can’t Identify Defendant in ‘Dubtown’ Copyright Suit, Court Declines to Help
The Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society, the supervising body and publisher for the Jehovah’s Witness religious group, wants to put an end to the activities of a defendant known only as ‘Kevin McFree’. ‘McFree’ (which is presumably not his real name) is the creator of the ‘Dubtown’ series of stop-motion Lego animations that take place in a fictitious Jehovah’s Witness town. In the summer of 2018, Watch Tower filed an application for a...
MPA Adds New Pirate Streaming Sites to UK Blocklist
The list of websites that are blocked in the UK for facilitating copyright infringement is growing longer and longer. In a new ruling issued this month, the High Court ordered the major ISPs, including Sky, BT, TalkTalk, and Virgin, to block access to over a dozen ‘pirate’ streaming sites. UK Blocklist Expands The new blocking request was issued following a complaint from the Motion Picture Association Europe (MPA), which acts on...
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