Tag Archives : copyright

Software maker SAP has taken responsibility for copyright infringement in a lawsuit filed against the company by rival Oracle. SAP said on Thursday it will accept financial responsibility for “mistakes” made by the subsidiary TomorrowNow, Oracle accused of “corporate theft on a grand scale” in the process. Oracle, which competes [...]

The American Society of Media Photographers in conjunction with other artists and illustrators presented on Wednesday in Manhattan Federal Court, a lawsuit against Google, alleging that the company is digitizing and displaying their work online without permission. Three years ago a group of authors, publishers and professional organizations in the area [...]

The siege against the search engine The Pirate Bay squeezed in Europe after the Netherlands require on Thursday (22/10) that those responsible for the service to remove all torrents that allow anybody to download multimedia content protected by copyright. With the ban applied by Justice Foundation to Protect the Rights of the Entertainment Industry [...]

Plans to force UK ISPs to disconnect suspected of illegal downloading were rejected by 68% of citizens of the country. For them, at least one lawsuit in court would be required before, if the punishment be necessary. This is what the survey research firm YouGov, in the first time that the public was verified about the issue, says the newspaper “The [...]

After attacking the torrents site The Pirate Bay, the record labels ones and movies studios are about to other battle against that they affirm to be promoting piracy: this time, the objective is the Dutch site Mininova, that also brings torrents for several content types, and a considerable part is of material protected by copyrights. A court also [...]

Pirate Party, that already got progress in countries as Sweden and Germany, docks in United Kingdom and, even beginning small, it already received hundreds of adhesion proposals in some hours of existence. Pirate Party of United Kingdom intends to throw campaigns before the elections, treating of problems as the reform of the copyrights and patents [...]

The hosting service Rapidshare was sentenced by the German Justice to pay a fine of 24 million euros (U.S. $ 66 million), due to permit the storage of music protected by copyright. The Regional Court of Hamburg ruled that the site must also filter the content more effectively. The lawsuit was brought by Gema, Germany’s national collection and [...]

A group of popular rock, pop artists and musicians launched an organization called Featured Artists’ Coalition (FAC) in London last week. The Featured Artists’ Coalition is a collective voice of music makers, artists who want to have a greater say in music industry and protect the basic rights of performers and musicians. Times are changing and [...]