April 26 is World Intellectual Property Day, which gives us here at the App Association a chance to reflect on how all kinds of intellectual property rights (IP) – patents, trademarks, copyright, and trade secrets – are the lifeblood of our industry. The infringement on and theft of intellectual property [...]
Last week, the U.S. Copyright Office held the final hearings to decide whether there should be exemptions from the no-circumvention or no-hacking to access digital copyrighted works rule in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). The Copyright Office does this every three years, and each time there is a predictable [...]
It seems there have always been scandalous pictures and videos of celebrities. They capture public attention for a short period of time and then are either forgotten, or act as the basis for a career as a celebrity (AHEM, Kim Kardashian). But the recent hack and publication of nude celebrity [...]
This is an important victory for Viacom and the rule of law. Another court has firmly rejected Google's continuing claims that Internet innovation Will Just Die unless Google can legally build content-distribution business knowingly or intentionally based on the "copyright piracy on a commercial scale that the World Trade Organization [...]
There was a Ted Talk by Rob Reid recently posted titled The $8 Billion iPod. His talk attached some pretty remarkable figures to the economic cost of copyright infringement. Unfortunately, this was simply an attempt to confuse consumer and commercial piracy. No consumer has ever been sued for having unauthorized [...]