Providing a streaming music service with insufficient licensing, Grooveshark has presented itself as a victim of the RIAA and an overly aggressive copyright community. It is not. To understand why, it helps to know how Grooveshark works. Grooveshark combines the worst features of a piracy-adapted cyberlocker with the worst features [...]
Today, Congress began asking why search engines are allowed to willingly promote and finance piracy. In a Judiciary Subcommittee hearing, Former Chairman of the Intellectual Property Subcommittee Howard Berman led off with a question that intellectual property advocates have been asking for years. If a search engine can adjust its [...]
The Association for Competitive Technology, representing over 3,000 small business technology entrepreneurs, continues to applaud the work of the Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator (IPEC). Marshalling the resources of the administration in defense of our country’s intellectual property, IPEC addresses a big concern for our nation’s innovators: protecting our products from [...]
Victoria Espinel, President Obama’s Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator (IPEC), has released her 2010 Annual Report on Intellectual Property Enforcement. The Annual Report provides an overview of the Administration’s past and ongoing efforts to promote the enforcement of intellectual property rights (IPRs), both domestically and internationally. The following three ongoing initiatives [...]
On Monday, the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation hosted a panel discussion that focused on several new online-piracy-related studies, including the recent MarkMonitor study of online counterfeiting and piracy, and an ambitious new study by the firm Envisional, commissioned by NBC/Universal, entitled An Estimate of Infringing Use of the Internet [...]