by thefriedfirm | May 9, 2017 | Blog
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Grande Communications, a Texas-based internet service provider (ISP), due to Grande Communications not taking “meaningful action against repeat infringers,”...
by thefriedfirm | Mar 14, 2017 | Blog
Google has been asked to remove links from more than a million individual websites from its search results based on alleged copyright infringement, according to recent transparency reports. For more than five years, the company has been keeping detailed information on...
by thefriedfirm | Dec 27, 2016 | Blog
Capitol Records filed a petition for a writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court on December 14th, 2016, asking it to hear a copyright case that could have huge consequences for sites with user-generated music content that hope to be protected from infringement...
by thefriedfirm | Nov 8, 2016 | Blog
Piracy seems to be the music industry’s hydra monster, the mythical beast with regenerating heads: every time it gets a handle on one mode of unauthorized distribution, another one pops up. This time it’s battling the rise of stream ripping, the process of turning a...
by thefriedfirm | Sep 20, 2016 | Blog
Earlier this year, we wrote about some of the issues with automated copyright infringement reporting systems after Fox included a YouTube user’s personal gameplay footage in an episode of Family Guy, and then later flagged the same gameplay footage as infringement....