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Rightscorp Rings In The New Year By Vowing To Find New Ways To Lose Money In...
Rightscorp is doing some aggressive whistling in the dark. The company that thought it could tackle piracy with threatening letters, threatening robocalls, and suing ISPs for contributory infringement...
View ArticleDangerous: Judge Says It Was 'Objectively Unreasonable' For Cox To Claim DMCA...
We’ve been covering the BMG v. Cox case since the beginning, and a bad decision just got made even worse — and more dangerous. If you’ve been following the case, you know that it’s on appeal right now...
View ArticleCopyright Troll Rightscorp Ramps Up Its Efforts To Get ISPs To Push Its...
Remember Rightscorp? This is the wannabe “friendlier” copyright troll, that sends smaller bills than the traditional copyright trolls. Over the years, it’s actually struggled to make any money… and...
View ArticleHow The Supreme Court's Recent Free Speech Ruling May Destroy Hollywood's...
Earlier this week, we wrote about the details of the Supreme Court’s ruling in Packingham v. North Carolina — the case that said a North Carolina law that barred convicted sex offenders from using...
View ArticleAs Predicted, Cox's Latest Appeal Points To SCOTUS' Refusal To Disconnect Sex...
Last week the Supreme Court managed to hold its nose long enough to properly assert that banning convicted sex offenders from social media was plainly an infringement on their First Amendment rights....
View ArticleAppeals Court Makes A Mess Of Copyright Law Concerning ISPs And Safe Harbors
We’ve been following the BMG v. Cox lawsuit from the very beginning, through all its very odd twists and turns, including having a judge in the district court, Liam O’Grady, who made it quite clear...
View ArticleRecognizing It Had No Chance, Cox Settles BMG Copyright Trolling Case
The long saga of the BMG v. Cox case is now over. If you don’t recall, BMG had hired the copyright trolling outfit Rightscorp to bombard ISPs with shakedown letters, based on accusations of copyright...
View ArticleCourt Shoots Down Record Label's Attempt To Expand The Definition Of...
While there has been plenty of attention paid to the BMG v. Cox case, in which Cox was found not to be protected by the DMCA’s safe harbors in dealing with repeat infringers, it’s increasingly looking...
View ArticleMagistrate Judge Says Grande Shouldn't Be Able To Use The DMCA Safe Harbors...
We’ve written a few times about a key DMCA case in Texas, involving the ISP Grande Communications and Universal Music Group (and, by proxy, the copyright trolling operation Rightscorp). The case has...
View ArticleWherein The Copia Institute Updates The Copyright Office On The First...
A few years ago the Copyright Office commenced several studies on the DMCA. One, on Section 1201, resulted in a report to Congress and some improvements to the triennial rulemaking process. But for...
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