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Remember so-not-a-pirate Kim Dotcom? New Zealand’s highest court has just said the USA can extradite him for copyright naughtiness

But first, he gets a judicial review and chance to extend eight-year legal saga

04 Nov 2020

GitHub warns devs face ban if they fork DMCA'd YouTube download tool... while hinting how to beat the RIAA

No, no, no, you hit it like this *whack*

03 Nov 2020

No, your software ideas aren't copyrightable, US judge tells SAS amid its long-running feud with Brit outfit

console.log("go away and don't come back");

02 Nov 2020

Trump's Make Space Great Again video pulled after former 'naut says: Nope

How may I infringe thee? Let me count the ways...

05 Jun 2020

Publishers sue to shut down books-for-all Internet Archive for 'willful digital piracy on an industrial scale'

UpdatedCopyright infringement claim 'not in anyone’s interest' responds org

01 Jun 2020

You overstepped and infringed British sovereignty, Court of Appeal tells US in software companies' copyright battle

Angry judgments fly as SAS and World Programming spat rolls on

14 May 2020

Internet Archive justifies its vast 'copyright infringing' National Emergency Library of 1.4 million books by pointing out that libraries are closed

Authors, publishers unimpressed

01 Apr 2020

Internet Archive opens National Emergency Library with unlimited lending of 1.4m books for stuck-at-home netizens amid virus pandemic

Global crisis necessitates extreme copyright flexibility, educators insist

24 Mar 2020

Oracle and Google will fight in court over Java AGAIN and this time it's going to the Supremes

The case that just won't die

15 Nov 2019

We read the Brexit copyright notices so you don't have to… No more IP freely, ta very much

Buried on Friday PM, just before pub o'clock

21 Oct 2019

Google lashes out at DoJ, Oracle as it asks US Supremes to sniff Java suit one last time

It's like reinventing the steering wheel... so they say

18 Oct 2019

Outraged Virgin slaps IP trolls over dirty movie download data demands

This is a lawsuit, you filthy-minded people

30 Jul 2019

British ISPs throw in the towel, give up sending out toothless copyright infringement warnings

What a waste of time and money that was

20 Jul 2019

Usenet file-swapping was acceptable in the '80s – but not so much now: Pirate pair sent down for 66 months

Yep, Usenet is still around

12 Jul 2019

Prenda Law boss John Steele to miss 2020 Olympics... unless they show it in prison

Lawyer in the cooler for five years for operating notorious smut piracy honeypot scam

09 Jul 2019

Stiff penalty: Prenda Law copyright troll gets 14 years of hard time for blue view 'n sue scam

That's a wrap for the file-sharing skin flick shakedown

14 Jun 2019

Starz, meet the Streisand Effect. Cable telly giant apologizes for demented DMCA Twitter takedown spree

Inadvertently highlights easy abuse of IP protection

15 Apr 2019

Article 13 reasons why... we agree with EU, nods Britain at Council of Ministers

About the Copyright Directive (why, what did you think we meant?)

15 Apr 2019

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Remember so-not-a-pirate Kim Dotcom? New Zealand’s highest court has just said the USA can extradite him for copyright naughtiness

GitHub warns devs face ban if they fork DMCA'd YouTube download tool... while hinting how to beat the RIAA

No, your software ideas aren't copyrightable, US judge tells SAS amid its long-running feud with Brit outfit

Trump's Make Space Great Again video pulled after former 'naut says: Nope

Publishers sue to shut down books-for-all Internet Archive for 'willful digital piracy on an industrial scale'

You overstepped and infringed British sovereignty, Court of Appeal tells US in software companies' copyright battle

Internet Archive justifies its vast 'copyright infringing' National Emergency Library of 1.4 million books by pointing out that libraries are closed

Internet Archive opens National Emergency Library with unlimited lending of 1.4m books for stuck-at-home netizens amid virus pandemic

Oracle and Google will fight in court over Java AGAIN and this time it's going to the Supremes

We read the Brexit copyright notices so you don't have to… No more IP freely, ta very much

Google lashes out at DoJ, Oracle as it asks US Supremes to sniff Java suit one last time

Outraged Virgin slaps IP trolls over dirty movie download data demands

British ISPs throw in the towel, give up sending out toothless copyright infringement warnings

Usenet file-swapping was acceptable in the '80s – but not so much now: Pirate pair sent down for 66 months

Prenda Law boss John Steele to miss 2020 Olympics... unless they show it in prison

Stiff penalty: Prenda Law copyright troll gets 14 years of hard time for blue view 'n sue scam

Starz, meet the Streisand Effect. Cable telly giant apologizes for demented DMCA Twitter takedown spree

Article 13 reasons why... we agree with EU, nods Britain at Council of Ministers

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