Fourth Amendment Is Not for Sale Act Goes Back to Congress
A bill to prevent cops and spies from buying Americans’ data instead of getting a warrant has a fighting chance in the US Congress as lawmakers team up against surveillance overreach. Powered by...
Anti-Piracy Coalition Boasts Massive Sports Streaming Disruption Campaign
In recent years, rightsholders of major sports events have complained that current legislative frameworks fail to provide efficient tools to tackle live streaming piracy. This problem was highlighted repeatedly last year as the European Commission drafted its plans to tackle ‘live piracy’ going forward. End the Live Piracy Plague A group of more than a hundred stakeholders, including several of the largest sports organizations, called...
Instagram Not Liable For Copyright Infringement Over Embedded Images
In common with content created in other fields, photographs generally enjoy protection under copyright law, allowing photographers to determine who can duplicate and/or distribute their work. Photographers Alexis Hunley and Matthew Brauer posted several of their copyrighted works on Instagram. In January 2016, Time published an article titled ‘These Photographers Are Covering the Presidential Campaign on Instagram.’ Within that...
US Court: When IPTV Pirates Reap Profit, CDN Attracts Pirates & Profits
In February 2022, U.S. broadcaster DISH Network filed a $32.5m lawsuit against DataCamp, claiming that the UK-based CDN company failed to take action against copyright-infringing customers. The complaint, filed in an Illinois district court, alleged that pirate IPTV services Banjo TV, Bollywood IPTV, Comstar TV, Express IPTV, Gennie TV, Gold TV, IPGuys, Istar, Red IPTV, Sky IPTV, and Zumm TV, were all customers of DataCamp. DISH...
Court Orders File-Sharing Service to Pay $46,000 Piracy Damages For User Upload
To the global audience Ulož.to may not be well-known internationally but in the Czech Republic, it is huge. The file-sharing and hosting service has millions of users and is listed as the 51st most-visited website in the country. In addition, its mobile apps are frequently used as well. Like many other file storage platforms, Ulož can be used to share a wide variety of files. Copyright holders complain that many people abuse the...
