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1: Case against Avatar dismissed
First off today, Zhou Shaomou, an amateur science fiction author from China, had a lawsuit of his against James Cameron dismissed. The author accused Cameron of plagiarizing his hit movie Avatar from his 1997 work “The Legend of the [...]

It is Monday Friday again and that means that it is time for another episode of the Copyright 2.0 Show.
That’s right, for this week, and likely from here on out, the show will be going up on Friday rather than Monday. With the new recording time, Wednesdays at 6:00 PM ET, which you can now [...]

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1: Judge: ‘HOPE’ Artist Under Criminal Investigation
First off today, Shepard Fairey, the artist who created the iconic Obama “Hope” poster is now being investigated by a grand jury over his admitted lies to the court about which photograph was used and for allegedly [...]

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1: Verizon Terminating Copyright Infringers’ Internet Access
Verizon is becoming the first ISP in the U.S. to officially announce that they are terminating repeat copyright infringers in a “graduated response” or “three strikes” system. Verizon would not say how many were being terminated but [...]

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1: Google Apologises to Chinese Writers Over Book Flap
First off today, Google, which has found itself under siege regarding its Google Book Search product, has publicly apologized to Chinese authors for what it calls poor communication with Chinese authors over its book scanning [...]

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1: Solid Oak Files $2.2B Suit Against China, OEMs
First off today, we have a possible new record for largest copyright lawsuit ever as the software company Solid Oak has filed a $2.2 billion suit against Sony, Lenovo, Acer and, biggest of all the [...]

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1: Fine for Google Over French Books
First off today, Google has suffered a setback with its Google Book Search project as a court in France has ordered Google to pay 300,000 euros (approx $430,000) to French publisher La Martiniere for the digitization of [...]

Plurk recently accused Microsoft of plagiarism in the creation of their MSN Juku product, but what is the full story?

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1: AP to Obama ‘Hope’ Artist’s Lawyers: We’d Like You to Stick Around
First off today, as discussed earlier this week, the Shepard Fairey lawsuit took a strange turn when Fairey admitted he misled the Associated Press, who is suing him, and the court [...]

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1: Coalition to challenge Google Books settlement
First off, opposition to the Google Book Search settlement continues to grow but now we’re seeing not just authors in other countries, but heavy hitters right here at home. Microsoft, Amazon, and Yahoo are joining up with [...]