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Strike 3 Holdings Copyright Infringement Defense Tips

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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

Smart & Biggar

Federal Court issues unprecedented site-blocking order requiring Internet Service Providers to impede access to piracy services

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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

Proskauer Rose LLP

Three Point Shot - April 2017

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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

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Judge Halts Pornographer’s Subpoenas Against Potential Infringers Identified Through IP Addresses

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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

Proskauer - New Media & Technology

Music Publishers Bring Contributory Copyright Claims Against ISP for Infringing Activities of Subscribers

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

Gray Reed

Six Strikes And You’re Out: The Copyright Alert System Begins This Week

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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

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