Nine Inch Nails, pioneers of the correct way to do online distribution, have done it agian, but this time they've gone one better. Rather than charging for a new album in perfect quality;...

The Washington post ran a story on Wednesday saying that the RIAA was suing a man for copying a CD he purchased onto his computer. The columnist Marc Fisher quoted a legal brief and alleged that the...

The "first sale" doctrine is simple. You buy it. You own it. You can do whatever you like with it. In the digital world that's not so obvious. Record companies, software developers, and...

A Finnish Court rules that effective means effective. The issue is the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and the European counterpart, the European Copyright Directive (EUCD), which says...

Media Rights Technologies (MRT) and BlueBeat, which develop and distribute software that blocks unauthorized streaming media recording, have served cease and desist letters to Apple, RealNetworks,...

Magistrate Judge Lorenzo F. Garcia in Capitol v. Does 1-16 denied RIAA's ex-parte motion to force the University of New Mexico to disclose the identities of its students. RIAA ex-parte motions...

Shelly Palmer interviews activist and attorney Ray Beckerman, author of the blog Recording Industry vs The People, which is "[a]bout the RIAA's attempt to monopolize digital music by...

The recording industry lawsuit against LimeWire has been postponed until March 2008 when the summary judgment motion will be fully briefed and pretrial discovery finished. Justice is slow for the...

The Court ordered RIAA to pay defendant Debbie Foster $68,685.23 in attorney fees and costs. Previously the judge had ruled that Foster could collect a judgment, Foster had submitted a claim for over...

Over the past six months RIAA has renewed its pressure on schools to be their proxy in copyright infringement lawsuits (RIAA To Schools: Can I Add You To My Circle?). The recording industry has...

I admire the folks at Project Playlist. They've developed a service that carefully navigates copyright infringement, at least how the recording industry plays that game today. I'll ignore...

In a blow for common sense and against the Bush Administration's pandering to the religious right, a US Court overturned the FCC's ban on 'fleeting expletives'. The US Court of...

RIAA has entered a new stage in its fight to tame wild college students. In addition to suing students directly, it's pressed the school themselves with limited progress to restrict access to P2P...

Another week, another Hollywood lawsuit against a web sharing site. This time it's Warner Music and Imeem. Imeem has attracted a lot of visitors for its user-content sharing service. It claims a...

In RIAA copyright infringement case Elektra v. Dennis, the defendant stated that he has doesn't have or know how to use P2P file sharing software and has never had or downloaded music files. RIAA...

In Capitol v. Foster: Justice At Last and RIAA Lawsuit Setback: Defendant Wins Attorney Fees, defendant Debbie Foster of Oklahoma was granted attorney fees. RIAA dropped the suit against the mother...

RIAA is taking a new tactic in its fight on pirates of all stripes - jump on the Bush administration bandwagon to create a police state. The Bush administration, fresh on the heels of its success on...

In RIAA copyright infringement case Lava v. Amurao, the defendant has successfully raised an interesting legal theory of copyright misuse. Judge Charles L. Brieant rejected RIAA's motion to...

In "A Great Idea Lives Forever. Shouldn't Its Copyright?" Mark Helprin writes "No good case exists for the inequality of real and intellectual property, because no good case can...

The RIAA has dropped a RIAA copyright infringement in BMG v. Thao after accepting that the defendant was incorrectly named by the ISP. The ISP identified Mr. Thao as holder of the account whose IP...