Previously on this site, I reviewed the DMCA policies of the top 5 social news sites. I found, as might be expected, that the policies on the five different sites varied wildly both in terms of how they were implemented and how robust they were.
Differences between the sites became clear as sites with more money, [...]

Image search engine FeelImage, previously discussed here, has stopped displaying Flickr results in its pages.
This comes after Cybele, along with others, noticed that the site appeared to violating Flickr’s terms of use and posted about it in the Flickr forum.
In the replies to Cybele’s post, a Flickr staff member named “Kevin” posted a [...]

My wife works in human resources. Part of her job is to coordinate with with outside printers for materials that are targeted at the company’s employees. Though her business does a lot of printing in-house, their machines are specialized and can not handle a lot of jobs, especially smaller press runs.
Earlier this week, she was [...]

In May, I reported on DeviantArt photographer Lara Jade Coton who had discovered that a self-portrait she had taken when she was 14 was being used on the cover of a pornographic DVD.
Earlier today she, through her attorney Richard Harrison, filed suit today in a Tampa courtroom against TVX Films, its owner, Robert Burge, [...]

The same copyright system that allows the RIAA to go on a rampage of lawsuits and empowers movie studios to cripple fair use of their work is tying the hands of small copyright holders on the Web.
Worst hit of all are the bloggers, who often endure the worst kinds of infringement only to discover [...]

Perhaps the most difficult area of copyright law is fair use.
Not only are the issues involved in fair use complicated and difficult to understand, but the answer is never satisfying. Since fair use can only be decided by a judge or jury and is handled on a case-by-case basis, there is no way to [...]

First off, congratulations to Jeremy Steele for successfully guessing which notice was correct! Due to an appeal to the Plagiarism Today Supreme Court, namely my wife, Jeremy has been declared the winner of the contest and I’ve been ordered to pay a heavy fine for being evil.
So Jeremy, congratulations. You earned it by figuring out [...]

Often times, on this site and elsewhere, we criticize hosts for their poor handling of the DMCA while chiding Webmasters and other laypeople who make mistakes while filing DMCA notices.
Though the criticism of hosts is a little more fair since they were one of the parties pushing for the notice and takedown provision, the fact [...]

For most, being plagiarized is an inherently emotional experience. Finding out that someone else copied and claimed something that took hours to produce is bound to produce some negative feelings.
This has lead some to wonder if fighting plagiarism is more about revenge than practicality. To some, it is better to simply forget about the plagiarists, [...]

In December of last year, I wrote about how the adult entertainment industry was using “piracy” to its advantage and, despite adult content making up the bulk of file sharing, was a thriving industry.
However, that may change soon. A new organization, The Global Anti-Piracy Agency (GAPA), has been founded by Sureflixx Digital Distribution “with [...]