The Legal side of Internet Television including Digital Rights Management (DRM), Intellectual Property and Piracy
Legal, DRM, Piracy & IP
Google and Viacom have finally resolved the long-running lawsuit over videos uploaded to YouTube almost a decade ago. The terms of...
An appeals court has ordered Google to remove a controversial short film from YouTube after an actress who appeared in Innocence...
A recent decision by an appeals court in Washington to chuck out net neutrality rules could have dire consequences for everyone...
YouTube’s recent crackdown on Let’s Play videos, with an aggressive new Content ID update, has left a bad taste in the...
Do people pirate things because they’re cheap and want to get whatever they can for free? Or is the practice less...
Nintendo has, in its infinite wisdom, decided to declare war on the fans who dare to post videos of themselves playing...
The owner of Surfthechannel, a website which linked to content on the likes of Megavideo and Tudou, has been sentenced to...
There has long been a question mark over whether linking to or embedding copyright-infringing videos is as illegal as actually hosting...
The Pirate Bay has effectively been banned in the UK after the High Court issued a court order demanding ISPs block...
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water assume Viacom’s lawsuit against YouTube for copyright infringement...
Wait, what? There’s a music label executive who thinks the Internet is a force for good? Wonders will never cease. Unfortunately...
Hollywood will, and has been for many years now, tell us all that piracy is the big, bad wolf that is...
MegaUpload is no more, at least in its former capacity. We can now look forward to a long and expensive legal...
If you download movies from the Internet then there’s a small chance you’ll get caught. If you run a site offering...
The Hurt Locker BitTorrent lawsuit is dead, or at least it should be. Unfortunately someone forgot to tell the lawyers. or...
2011 has been a poor year at the box office, with audience numbers and revenue down to their lowest levels since...
If you’re the source for a pirated movie which then spreads across the Internet like wildfire you could face time in...
Believe it or not things aren’t as black and white as they may at first appear when it comes to copyright...
It’s OK to hate Louis C.K. I do. But you should love his latest comedy special. Not for the content, necessarily,...
In many ways Google owns the Web. The majority of people use its search engine to find what they’re looking for,...
Another day, another innovative use of the Internet to deliver content to paying customers is killed by Hollywood. Because piracy is...
The MPA, Hollywood, and the entertainment industry as a whole have scored a victory of sorts over illegal file-sharing in the...
Movie piracy is all bad, right? No good can come from it, right? If a movie makes it onto BitTorrent (as...
Hollywood has finally realized the Internet is here to stay, digital content is here to stay, and piracy is here to...
Ivi TV has turned to crowd-funding in order to pay the huge legal bills it will be facing as it gets...
TV and movie studios are increasingly fighting back against piracy, usually relying on the legal system to protect them and their...
Hollywood is struggling to transition from the past to the present, to a time when the Internet was but a sci-fi...
In what was an entirely predictable result of a stupid decision, the number of people illegally downloading Fox TV shows has...
A company offering DVDs for rent in a unique way has been ordered offline by a federal judge. Apparently it isn’t...
