Category: Copyright Lawyer

Hollywood studios have issued Digital Millennium Copyright Act takedowns concerning Kim Dotcom’s new Mega service, which provides its users with 50 GB of upload space and encrypted files. Warner Brothers and NBC Universal have issued DMCA takedown requests to Google requesting that the search engine provider remove the Mega service from its listings. This request […]

Malibu Media, known on the Internet as a copyright troll, has again filed over twenty copyright infringement lawsuits in the Eastern District of Michigan through counsel Paul J. Nicoletti. If you have been targeted by Malibu Media for copyright infringement within the Eastern District of Michigan, contact the expert copyright lawyers at Revision Legal at […]

Recently it seems that Congress has continually chiseled away at our ability to utilize the wide array of technology that we purchase. Both the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) have created powerful statutory weapons that equip corporate technology producers with endless legal ammunition to protect their “legal […]

A new set of bittorrent copyright infringement lawsuits have been filed in the Northern District of Illinois over the movie “The Trade of Innocents.” Five complaints for copyright infringement have been filed, specifically, The Bicycle Peddler, LLC v. Does 1-12 – 2013-cv-02372 The Bicycle Peddler, LLC v. Does 1-21 – 2013-cv-02373 The Bicycle Peddler, LLC […]

Prior to the advent of the Internet, it was significantly harder to distribute non-consentual adult photographs and videos. Physical photographs and video tapes could only be shown to a small group of people. The increase in the speed of communications, however, has brought with it new perils for women and men subject to non-consentual pornography, […]

A recent District Court decision has once again reaffirmed the broad protection afforded to ISP’s under the Digital Millenium Copyright Act’s (“DMCA”) safe harbor provision. Viacom, as well as several other copyright holders, initiated suit against YouTube for alleged copyright  infringement occurring on the site. The case was remanded back from the 2nd Circuit with […]

Last week in  The Associated Press v. Meltwater U.S. Holdings, Inc., a federal district court in New York held that the internet news monitoring service, Meltwater, infringed upon the copyrights of the Associated Press (AP) when it compiled excerpts of AP articles and distributed them to its subscribers.   How it all started . . […]

Let me begin with one simple fact: Most of us have probably downloaded music at least once in our life. Don’t try and hide it, I understand the circumstances. Music is too expensive, online music stores do not offer everything you want, actual record stores are about as rare as a wooly mammoth, and record […]

Last week, the Kardashian sisters filed a copyright lawsuit in California federal court, claiming Ellen Pearson, the widow of their father, Richard Kardashian, unlawfully sold their family photographs and diaries to Bauer Publishing Company.  Bauer published some of the photographs and diary excerpts in recent issues of its Life & Style and In Touch magazines.  […]

In a strange copyright infringement case, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that MMS, the text messaging standard, is not an illegal file sharing service and, therefore, cell phone carriers cannot be held liable for vicarious copyright infringement for the forwarding of copyrighted MMS messages. Luvdart, a company that produces greetings and stylized […]