A US District Court in Arizona has just rejected the RIAA “making available” notion of copyright infringement.  In the case Atlantic v Howell, the decision states, “the general rule, supported by the great weight of authority, is that infringement of the distribution right requires an actual dissemination of either copies or phonorecords.”
The case centers around […]

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Xinhua News Agency said Zhou Cheng, 40, was jailed for one year and fined about $1,430 by the Chaoyang District People’s Court on Friday.
Cheng had been selling DVDs from his shop in Chaoyang for $2.15 each and upon his arrest was found with nearly 11,000 DVDs in his possession.  Pirated DVDs are extremely common throughout […]

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JK Rowling and Warner Brothers are suing to keep RDR Books, a small publisher in Michigan, from publishing a Harry Potter Lexicon.  Rowling was in court in New York yesterday, testifying against the publisher, RDR, and author, Steve Vander Ark.  Both Rowling’s declaration to the court and testimony were emotional, invoking the amount of hard […]

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Snoop Dogg, the well known rapper, is being sued by James D. Jenkins of Colorado, who alleges that when at a Snoop Dogg concert in 2006, he handed a tape of his music to Ice Cube’s manager.  He alleges that samples of the tape ended up in Snoop Dogg’s song, “Sexual Seduction”.
The suit is hand-written by […]

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