BMG Sues Hilton Hotels Over ‘Infringing’ YouTube & Facebook Promo Videos
BMG Production Music, Inc. describes itself as a “production music house” engaged in the creation, marketing and delivery of custom music for use in media, including online adverts and promotional material. Its US catalog currently lists close to 247,000 tracks “spanning all musical genres” for customers to license for use in their own audio/visual productions. A lawsuit filed in the United States yesterday...
‘Copyright Troll’ Lawyer Appeals 14 Year Prison Sentence
Two weeks ago U.S. District Judge Joan N. Ericksen sentenced Paul Hansmeier to 14 years in prison, to be followed by two years of supervised release. Hansmeier was a key player in the Prenda Law firm, which pursued cases against people who were suspected of downloading pirated porn videos via BitTorrent. Hansmeier and fellow attorney John Steele went a step further though. Among other things they lied to the courts, committed...
2019 Opensource.com summer reading list
It is my pleasure to introduce the 2019 Opensource.com summer reading list. This year’s collection includes 13 great books recommended by members of the Opensource.com community. read...
FreeDOS turns 25 years old: An origin story
June 29 marks the 25th anniversary of FreeDOS. That’s a major milestone for any open source software project, and I’m proud of the work that we’ve done on it over the past quarter century. I’m also proud of how we built FreeDOS because it is a great example of how the open source software model works. read...
