This page contains all the news items for the tag "Copyright" for the month of June 2011. To view all news items without being the current tag filter, please click here.
Sony CEO Howard Stringer says hackers didn't like Sony protecting their intellectual property, and that this is the reason for the PSN hack ... Read more ...
The MPA and its American cousins are locked in legal battles on both sides of the Atlantic, as the industry group wants ISPs to start blocking websites, and also want file host Hotfile to hand over every piece of data the company holds ... Read more ...
Prince is fighting online piracy, changes in the music industry, and even digital music, by promising to not release any new albums until these problems get solved ... Read more ...
The MPAA's own lobbying disclosure report shows they've been busy in Q1 2011, with lobbying of not only politicians, but direct lobbying of law enforcement agencies such as the FBI and Homeland Security ... Read more ...
AT&T, Comcast, and Verizon are set to introduce a three-strikes system to help the music and movie industry in their fight against web piracy ... Read more ...
Sometimes pirates can hurt a game developer even if the developers don't mind piracy, and this is what happened with the indie game Project Zomboid ... Read more ...
23 year old student now faces fight against extradition to the United States to face copyright charges on a website that did not host pirated content ... Read more ...
Left and right are joining forces against Righthaven, dubbed a 'copyright troll', as a judge throws out one of Righthaven's lawsuits and threatens sanctions against the firm ... Read more ...
Major advertising buyer GroupM is producing a blacklist of websites that they say are carrying pirated content, but it includes legal websites such as Archive.org ... Read more ...
Two lawyers who initiated the current wave of mass copyright lawsuits in the UK have been found guilty of six counts of professional misconduct, and could face disbarment ... Read more ...
A new UN report says "three-strikes" and Internet disconnects are violations of human rights, regardless of the justifications for doing so ... Read more ...
Sony is facing more hacker trouble, after hacking group LulzSec claims they've managed to hack SonyPictures.com and gain access to a million user accounts, including passwords ... Read more ...
Google has removed several gaming emulators from Android Market, which may indicate a shift in policy towards these types of apps. Or not ... Read more ...
Google is preventing those with rooted Android phones from using YouTube's new video rental feature, citing copyright protection concerns ... Read more ...