Copyrighted Movies
With our lives being intertwined with the Internet the most common legal issues are related to copyright infringement and it could be in the area of movies, music, books, software or other art work....
View ArticleGet Educated On Copyright Law.
Copyright law issues are most commonly misunderstood or misconstrued and Copyright law and infringement is one of the areas where most people lack knowledge and do not educate themselves. When it...
View ArticleGuidelines for Copying Copyrighted Music
There has been an ongoing argument and heated debate recently in various blogs about RIAA stating or not stating what constitutes copyright theft and if copying music and creating digital music as MP3...
View ArticleBloggers and Copyright
Fair use is one of the most debated areas in copyright law. Recently in the limelight was the Harry Potter’s Lexicon litigation in which Stanford Law School’s Fair Use Project Defends RDR Books against...
View ArticleArtistic License Terms- Copyright Infringement
In Jacobsen v. Katzer, the appellant brought an action against the appellees for copyright infringement for not following the terms of the Artistic License while copying and incorporating materials...
View ArticleTake Down Notices Don’t Work
In spite of all the DMCA take down notices sent to YouTube, copyright infringement continues to grow on the site and the infringed material stays for a while before it is taken down and during that...
View ArticleCopyright Humbug
After a long break, I am back and I seem to have developed a writers block. It is funny that when you write on a regular basis thoughts and words flow easily. I have been thinking about how the concept...
View ArticlePirate Bay Wins the First Round
I have been reading about the Pirate Bay court trial in Sweden, after all these years of hype and the public looking forward to a long legal battle, the trial has turned out to be a bit of an...
View ArticleCopyright On Photographs
There has been a lot of buzz about the Obama image titled ‘Hope ‘ designed by Shepard Fairey, a Los-Angeles based street artist based on a photograph taken by Manny Garcia while working on a contract...
View ArticleFair Use- Lives!
It might be really outdated by now, but not linking to this Youtube video by the Israeli musician Kutiman would be shameful for one who advocates fair use and borrowing of pre-existing creative works...
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