X and Music Publishers Settle Three-Year Copyright Clash After SpaceX IPO
In a complaint filed at a Nashville federal court in 2023, Universal Music, Sony Music, EMI and others, accused X Corp of ‘breeding’ mass copyright infringement. The social media company allegedly failed to respond adequately to takedown notices and lacked a proper repeat infringer policy. The National Music Publishers Association (NMPA) claimed it had sent over 300,000 formal infringement notices, many of which didn’t lead to...
Canada’s ‘Expanded Scope’ Blocking Order Targets Existing and Future Pirate Sites
Canada’s approach to pirate site blocking has evolved quite a bit since the Federal Court issued the first ‘GoldTV’ order in 2019. That original order targeted a specific service and a fixed set of domain names. If rightsholders wanted to add a domain to the blocklist, they had to go back to court. Later orders against Soap2Day and, more recently, various stream-ripping sites, went a step further. Instead of targeting specific...
