http://www.freeforafee.com "Intellectual Property Law and Interactive Media." Edward Lamoureux, Steve Baron, Claire Stewart. Peter Lang, Pub., 2009. Sun, 05 Sep 2010 14:22:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In recent weeks, there's been a lot of talk about this outfit called Righthaven, a sort of online copyright enforcer for the Las Vegas Review-Journal. The enterprise won a key ruling in a Nevada federal court on Thursday. more The content in this post was found at http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2010/09/03/vegas-baby-ruling-a-possible-boon-to-copyright-troll-suits/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wsj%2Flaw%2Ffeed+%28WSJ.com%3A+Law+Blog%29 and was not authored by ... http://www.freeforafee.com/?p=23912 Apple introduced its own music-related social networking service called Ping on Wednesday, but as any golf fan or player knows, the PING name already belongs to a golf equipment company (Karsten Manufacturing Corporation) that has been around since 1959.  PING has filed for all sorts of PING trademarks; however, none ... http://www.freeforafee.com/?p=23927 [Post by Venkat] Jagex Ltd. v. Impulse Software, et al., Case No. 10-10216-NMG (D. Mass.) (Aug. 16, 2010) Jagex operates "Runescape," a popular and free online role-playing game. The game has over 130 million accounts, and users spend a significant amount of time "rising through the levels of the game": as of ... http://www.freeforafee.com/?p=23909 Ars Technica: Thomas Edison’s plot to hijack the movie industry The content in this post was found at http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/09/thomas-edisons-plot-to-destroy-the-movies.arsand was not authored by the moderators of freeforafee.com. Clicking the title link will take you to the source of the post. http://www.freeforafee.com/?p=23876 US Commerce Secretary Gary Locke went to Nashville yesterday to address a symposium on intellectual property enforcement, and he threw down the gauntlet: the Obama administration will find, board, and scuttle digital pirate ships, and the SS Copyright is going to get a new coat of armored plating. more The content in ... http://www.freeforafee.com/?p=23825 Paul Allen, entrepreneur and cofounder of Microsoft, has filed a lawsuit against 11 companies for infringements on his Web search patents. Announced on Friday afternoon, the suit names Apple, Google, Facebook, Netflix, YouTube, and Microsoft partner Yahoo as defendants for violating four Interval Licensing LLC patents The content in this post ... http://www.freeforafee.com/?p=23731 Movie studios are extending their efforts to take down sites that offer pirated material, with a new lawsuit targeting an advertising company that provides services to such sites. Warner Bros. and Disney have teamed up to sue Triton Media, accusing the company of both contributory and induced copyright infringement because ... http://www.freeforafee.com/?p=23728 The internet has changed the way the world works, and the law is being forced to keep up with it. Changing definitions of intellectual property and privacy in the online world are inspiring new laws at all levels of government. Three such bills are making their way though the US ... http://www.freeforafee.com/?p=23734 The MPEG Licensing Association—the group responsible for handling the necessary patent licensing for use of MPEG video codec standards—has announced that it will not charge royalties for AVC/H.264 encoded video that is made available to view via the Internet for free. The group earlier this year had extended its limited ... http://www.freeforafee.com/?p=23690 Hoping to administer a powerful sockdolager to online fraudsters, the California legislature passed a bill earlier this month that makes it illegal to impersonate someone else online. The content in this post was found at http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/08/california-moves-to-outlaw-online-e-personation.ars?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss and was not authored by the moderators of freeforafee.com. Clicking the title link will take you ... http://www.freeforafee.com/?p=23582