In March 2007, the district court in Alexandria, Virginia held that Vonage, a company which uses voice over IP technology, had infringed claims of three patents owned by Verizon Communications, and that those patents were not invalid as obvious. The judgement awarded $58,000,000 in damages and a royalty of 5.5% on any future infringing sales […]
Being an enthusiastic fan of J.K Rowling’s Potter novels I was infuriated to hear the French student arrested for publishing his own translation of the seventh chapter of the Potter tale would not be prosecuted. An agreement was made with J.K Rowling not to seek damages from the student for violation of intellectual property rights. […]
Advances in technology facilitating dissemination of digital files inevitably poses challenges on enforcement of existing copyright laws. Prince’s lawsuit, if filed, would be of significance in setting the standard of care to which file-sharing providers (YouTube), indexing services (The Pirate Bay) and online trade forums (EBay) should exercise to prevent making copyright-infringing works available […]
According to several media sources recording artist Prince (a.k.a., formerly known as The Artist Formerly Known As Prince) is prepared to sue YouTube (as well as eBay and Pirate Bay) for copyright infringement of his works. Prince is not alleging that Youtube is itself infringing on his copyright. Youtube only provides a forum for people […]
The events of early October, 2007 may herald a new age of respect for intellectual property (IP) rights. The first trial on peer to peer music file sharing pits the major record companies against a woman accused of copyright infringement, an act for which the U.S. Federal Court awarded a $220,000 judgment against her. The […]
Although the imagery of the article from which this post takes it’s title, is hilarious; turn our movie theatres into war zones, with metal detectors, pat-downs, and night-vision goggles, while security at our schools and universities remains lax, I believe that despite the movie industry’s use of James Bond-esque technology, this may not be the […]
Advertising plays an ever-increasing part in promoting competition and education for consumers. In such an era, web advertising has gained unprecedented popularity. By web-ad we mean ad forming the part of the web page itself and so is different from the pop-up ads populating like electronic billboards on our computer screen when we visit some […]