Highly visable lawsuits regarding copyright violations have brought increased attention to the business implications of copyright law. Consumers are also taking notice, as loved services such as YouTube and Kazaa come under investigation.
Hollywood Steals More People’s Copyrights Again
Judd Aptow A Repeat Offender
The 2007 Universal “ everything is on fire ” Pictures movie “ Knocked Up ” starring Katherine Heigl is the subject of a copyright infringement lawsuit filed last year.
In the lawsuit, an author, Rebecca Eckler, contends her preexisting copyrighted 2004 book “ Knocked Up : Confessions of a Hip Mother-To Be” was infringed, down to the book cover. There are overwhelming similarities between the two and... Read Full Story
Apr. 15th, 2007 PHOTOGRAPHER TO FILE COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT ON GENE SIMMONS Gene Simmons of the rock band KISS facing another lawsuit... 2007-04-16 07:46:30 - Associate Press Newswire KISS bassist GENE SIMMONS has been notified he's violated another photographers copyrights. Edward Przydzial of Beverly Hills states; "Mr. Simmons has stolen and used/abused my copyrights as far back as 1997 when they returned to the classic make-up era of the 70's... He has used my images on merchandise... Read Full Story
The outcome of the Viacom vs Google’s YouTube is still unclear but what’s even more confusing is how a judge could order Google to violate existing privacy law, according to some legal experts.
We reported a couple of days ago about the $1 billion copyright infringement lawsuit against YouTube and how users may worry where their personal information ends up.
Google is very willing to help in this matter but did state that it will ask Viacom to respect users’ privacy, but can we trust... Read Full Story
*super-size pdf and jpeg versions coming soon... OBAMA JOKER PRINTABLE LARGE FORMAT DOWNLOADS HERE; http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2483/3932667533_1151cf1085_o.jpg http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/3294/socialismprzydzialcrop.jpg A 45-year-old college art teacher of Polish/Austrian descent who supported Rep. Sarah Palin’s (vice) presidential candidacy is the anonymous artist who turned a Time magazine cover photo of Barack Hussein Obama into the nefarious Joker of the Batman series, The Los... Read Full Story
Carol Burnett has filed a $2 million copyright infringement lawsuit against 20th Century Fox, claiming her cleaning woman character was portrayed on the animated series "Family Guy. The U.S. District Court lawsuit, which was filed Thursday, said the Fox show didn't have the 73-year-old comedian's permission to include her cleaning woman character, Charwoman, in an April 2006 episode. The episode shows Charwoman as a porno-shop maid, and it uses what the lawsuit called an "altered version" of... Read Full Story
Lil Wayne’s in trouble again; but this time it’s copyright infringement that could land the “Lollipop” star back in a court of law. Country singer Karma Ann Swanepoel has filed a lawsuit in Louisiana alleging Wayne jacked her track “Once” for his single “I Feel Like Dying,” TMZ.com reports. Read Full Story
Lil Wayne’s in trouble again; but this time it’s copyright infringement that could land the “Lollipop” star back in a court of law. Country singer Karma Ann Swanepoel has filed a lawsuit in Louisiana alleging Wayne jacked her track “Once” for his single “I Feel Like Dying,” TMZ.com reports. Read Full Story
One of the major items in the news for Friday, April 17Th is the outcome of an much publicized trial regarding the issue of downloading licensed films and music. It has been noted 95 percent of music downloads on line involved illegal copying or pirated work. A verdict in Sweden was issued against the on-line company, The Pirate Bay . The court found the three owners and a financial supporter guilty of copyright violation. The judgement comes in favor of music and movie industries. The three... Read Full Story
I can’t help but wonder if people are trying to take advantage of Google’s sudden success, or if billion-dollar lawsuits are just common things in the corporate world. If you’ve been reading the news, you’ll probably know that Viacom is suing Google for copyright infringement. Viacom claims ownership of over 150,000 video clips that were posted with authorization on YouTube.
But I think Viacom deserves a big thumbs down for this. YouTube hosts over 80 million videos. How can they expect... Read Full Story
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November 23, 2008
Leader sues Facebook for patent infringement
Columbus, Ohio(RushPRNews)11/23/08 –Leader Technologies Incorporated of Columbus, Ohio, announced today that it has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Facebook, Inc. of Palo Alto, California.
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