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Nintendo of America’s (Nintendo) recent dispute against emulator developer, Tropic Haze, has highlighted major questions of intellectual property (IP) in the gaming sphere. This alert explores the background behind Nintendo’s...more
The New England Patriots have found themselves on the receiving end of a purported class action lawsuit alleging a violation of the Video Privacy and Protection Act (“VPPA”). Congress enacted the VPPA in 1988 in response to a...more
Online content piracy refers to the unauthorized distribution or reproduction of copyrighted material, such as movies, music, and software, over the internet. This is often done through file-sharing websites or peer-to-peer...more
Strike 3 Holdings (S3”) has filed THOUSANDS of copyright infringement lawsuits, and usually manages to settle quite a few of them. However, they do not always prevail in their bringing of these actions (usually in a federal...more
On November 15, 2019, the Federal Court issued an Order compelling Canada’s primary Internet service providers (“ISPs”) to block their subscribers from accessing two Internet services that distribute infringing television and...more
Premier League Takes the Pitch in Fight against Pirated Streams - The United Kingdom's most popular soccer league is using skillful legal tackling to maintain possession of its intellectual property. The Football...more
Online content providers continue to struggle with the challenge of copyright infringement by BitTorrent users. One of the most aggressive tacks is the one taken by Malibu Media, which, after instituting over 4,500 lawsuits...more
In a novel lawsuit that tests the bounds of service provider liability, two music publishers brought suit against an ISP for contributory copyright infringement for allegedly facilitating infringement by failing to terminate...more
ACI Adam BV v Stichting de Thuiskopie - Following a reference from the Supreme Court of the Netherlands, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) held that EU law precludes member states from having national...more
The movie industry, the music industry and five major internet service providers, with some input from the White House, quietly got together in 2011 and came up with a system that would allow the ISPs to notify individual...more