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Paul Riccardi

Judge throws book at Usenet.com in RIAA lawsuit - Ars Technica - 0 views

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    A fairly open and shut case of copyright infringement. The destruction of evidence eliminated any chance Usenet had of mounting a defense.
Allison Begezda

Judge Rules that Reposting an Entire Article Without Permission Is 'Fair Use' - 0 views

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    A federal judge ruled in favor of a defendant who reposted an entire article in a copyright case on Monday, Wired reports. The lawsuit was brought by Righthaven, a Las Vegas-based "copyright litigation factory," according to Wired, that has sued more than 200 websites, bloggers, and commenters for copyright infringement. This particular lawsuit targeted Wayne Hoehn, who posted an entire editorial from the Las Vegas Review-Journal and its headline, "Public Employee Pensions: We Can't Afford Them" on a website medjacksports.com.
Helen Nam

RIAA paid $16M in legal fees to sue pirates; recovered only $391K - 0 views

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    Althought RIAA has mostly ceased its method of suing people who download music illegally, it has been at tremendous cost -- financially and in PR.
arnie Grossblatt

YouTube - Copyright, Content and Class Action Lawsuits: A Debate on the Google Book Sea... - 0 views

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    Interesting video of the Google Book Search settlemnt.
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