Image Watermark Hijacking involves taking your watermark and overlaying it with another image, covering it up. Here’s how to stop it.

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1: Crown Copyright switches to Creative Commons
First off today, the UK Crown Copyright, which holds copyright in all works created by the government, has phased out a click-use license, which allowed anyone to use the content if they agreed to a set of [...]

Ad blocking has been in the news in a big way. However, the ethics and legality of it are both unsettled.

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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 Friday again and that means that it is time for another episode of the Copyright 2.0 Show.
It was a busy week for copyright news but the big story this week was something of a rarity, the Supreme Court handing down a ruling in a copyright case. Even more important, it is a ruling [...]

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1: Viacom vs. Google Court Fight Heats Up
First off today, the Viacom/YouTube lawsuit may be coming to a head. Both sides have filed papers indicating their plans to seek a summary judgement, asking the judge to rule on the case without going to [...]

Over the past few weeks, the plagiarism accusations against Nick Simmons have been the talk of the comic book world, but do they hold up?

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1: RealNetworks and Movie Studios Settle Lawsuit Over DVD Copying
First off today, in a rather stunning turn of events, Real Networks has settled its case with the various movie studios that sued it over its RealDVD product. Under the settlement, Real will pay [...]

If you’ve ever wonrdered about the DMCA Safe Harbor provisions (notice and takedown), here is all you could ever want to learn about it.

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1: US Top Court Sides with Publishers on $18M Deal
First off today, the Supreme Court has unanimously overturned an appeals court ruling throwing out a settlement between authors and newspapers,allowing the deal to go through. The sides struck an $18M settlement after authors [...]