Category: Copyright

GamesIndustry International has posted an excellent article on the tax credits available for video game developers. Michigan is among the dozens of states and Canadian provinces that provide tax credits for video game development. Under the 2013 Film and Digital Media Incentive, the State of Michigan offers a partial reimbursement of a video game developer’s […]

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 […]

Have you been targeted as a John Doe defendant in a copyright infringement filed by Malibu Media in Michigan? Contact the expert copyright infringement attorneys at Revision Legal today for a free consultations. We have handled copyright infringement cases on numerous occasions in the Eastern District of Michigan and the Western District of Michigan, so, […]

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 […]

If you have cable or satellite TV, then you are probably paying for channels that you either never watch or did not even know that you had.  This is because cable and satellite TV providers sell “bundles” of packages in their different subscription packages.  You buy a package, and those are the channels you get.  […]

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, […]

Warner Brothers was sued for trademark infringement and copyright infringement by the creators of video-based internet memes Nyan Cat and Keyboard Cat. These two videos have been viewed over 245,000,000 times, collectively. Keyboard Cat is a 54 second video uploaded to YouTube in 2007 that shows a cat playing a keyboard. Staring in the video, […]

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 […]