Have any suggestions for the 3 Count? Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday. 1: Google Spent $100 Million Defending Against Viacom’s $1 Billion Lawsuit First off today, on an earnings call Google stated that it had spend some $100 million to fend off Viacom’s recent $1 billion copyright infringement lawsuit. The suit, which is under [...]
What happens when you let your domain expire? Sometimes it’s nothing, but in at least one case it resulted in a duplicate site on his own domain.
Have any suggestions for the 3 Count? Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday. 1: RIAA’s Losing Gamble: Spends $63M For Copyright Suits First off today, reports are coming in that, over the past few years, the RIAA spent an estimates $63 million on attorneys and only recouped about $1.4 million in settlements and judgements. Many [...]
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Have any suggestions for the 3 Count? Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday. 1: Scholastic Sued by Author’s Estate for Similarities to Harry Potter Books First off today, the lawsuit over alleged plagiarism in the Harry Potter books has been expanded. The estate of British author Adrian Jacobs has sued Scholastic, the U.S. publisher of [...]
Have any suggestions for the 3 Count? Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday. 1: Can You Sell Your Imported Gadgets? Court Guts “First Sale” First off today, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled in the Omega watch case and may have changed the first sale paradigm. The case stems from a lawsuit in [...]
No matter how good you are at handling plagiarism, sometimes a case can frustrate you. Here are five steps for moving past a wall.
Have any suggestions for the 3 Count? Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday. 1: Boston Federal Judge Drastically Cuts $675K Penalty Against Student in Song-Sharing Case First off today, the judge in the Joel Tenenbaum case has reduced the jury award by 90%, from $675,000 to $67,500, saying that the larger award was “severe” and [...]
It is Friday again and that means that it is time for another episode of the Copyright 2.0 Show. With the holiday weekend in the U.S., it was a slow week for copyright news but that doesn’t mean Patrick and I got to rest any. We had several major developments in the U.S. Copyright Group [...]
Have any suggestions for the 3 Count? Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday. 1: SCO Appeals. Yes. Them Again. First off today, the SCO Group, which recently lost its bid to claim that Linux was an infringement of its UNIX operating system, is appealing the verdict hoping that the Appeals Court will again grant them [...]
