Journeyman Pictures
| Mar 9, 2013
Kim Dotcom claims he wants to protect internet privacy. The US says he's the internet's biggest pirate. Where does the hacker-turned-businessman see the future of information heading, as internet freedom and $500 million in copyright claims hang i...
Russia Today
| Jan 24, 2013
Kim Dotcom: Freedom fighter? The Megaupload founder talks about Internet freedom and the the US case against him in this interview with Russia Today. Dotcom says his goal is to encrypt half the Internet to restore the balance between individuals a...
Al Jazeera English
| Nov 9, 2012
Pussy Riot merchandise has become big business since two of the Russian punk rock band's members were jailed -- and with the band's name not trademarked, there's nothing to stop a scramble to cash in. A controversial attempt by one of the band's l...
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MBC
| Oct 26, 2012
Samsung won several patent battles this past week in its long-running legal war with Apple. South Korean broadcaster MBC reports on the latest in this international dispute between tech giants.
LinkAsia
| Sep 14, 2012
Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, co-founder of the illegal downloading site The Pirate Bay, was arrested in Cambodia and deported to Sweden. Contributor Justine Drennan looks at the social media debate over whether Cambodian officials should be pursuing w...
Al Jazeera English
| Jan 20, 2012
The US government has shut down one of the world's most popular file-sharing websites for allegedly violating piracy laws, as police arrested Megaupload's co-founders and another staff member in New Zealand. The suspects are accused of engaging i...
Democracy Now!
| Jan 19, 2012
Congressional support for a pair of anti-piracy bills is weakening after Wednesday's historic online protest in which thousands of websites went dark for 24 hours. Hollywood film studios, music publishers and major broadcasters support the anti-pi...
TED
| Jan 18, 2012
What does a bill like PIPA/SOPA mean to our shareable world? At the TED offices, Clay Shirky delivers a proper manifesto -- a call to defend our freedom to create, discuss, link and share, rather than passively consume.
Channel 4 News
| Jan 16, 2012
Rupert Murdoch, the head of News Corporation, has taken to Twitter to defend plans for new measures to stop internet piracy.
— May 10 at 04:15 pm
...Seacrest is being sued over copyright infringement on Khloe Kardashian's reality show. Music producer Jose Moreno has filed a $75,000 lawsuit ag...
— last Thursday at 08:14 pm
...“All Rights Reserved,” an in-depth look at copyright infringement in the music industry. The open dialogue with San Diego beat-makers will fire ...
— last Thursday at 10:30 am
...Translation is a network mechanism through which many Internet subscribers can share the... The U.S. Government has taken a significant action a...
— Mar 20 at 01:21 pm
...March 19, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) ruled in a first-sale doctrine case that allows Goodwill and other companies to resell...
Copyright infringement is the unauthorized use of works under copyright, infringing the copyright holder's "exclusive rights", such as the right to reproduce, distribute, display or perform the copyrighted work, spread the information contained within copyrighted works, or to make derivative works. It often refers to copying "intellectual property" without written permission from the copyright holder, which is typically a publisher or other business representing or assigned by the work's creator.
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