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A music publisher’s coalition that includes big names like Universal Music Corp., BMG, Warner Chapell and Sony Music Publishing is suing Twitter for copyright infringement. The National Music Pu

GitHub has restored the code of a project that the RIAA demanded it take down last month after finding that the group’s DMCA complaint was meritless. YouTube-dl, a tool that lets videos from the

The music industry is ramping up its campaign against YouTube. Musicians, including Katy Perry and Billy Joel, sent a petition earlier this year to the U.S. Copyright Office to amend the Digital Mill

In an open letter to the Office and Management and Budget’s Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator, Google announced today that it opposes the practice of removing entire sites from search re

Automattic, the Wordpress hosting company, has long followed the letter of the DMCA in respect to copyright. This means that the company will side with a complainant rather than a customer, essentiall

In an excellent example of the <a target="_blank" href="http://www.robertsharp.co.uk/2013/08/13/straigh-pride-uk-streisand-effect/">Streisand Effect</a> working its sordid magic, a group called <a tar

In a bit of copyright irony, companies like NBC Universal and Lionsgate have started targeting Google and the DMCA request clearinghouse <a target="_blank" href="http://www.google.com/transparencyrepo

<b>Editor's note:</b> <em>Sid Venkatesan is an IP partner at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP. James Freedman is an associate in Orrick’s IP group and a recent Stanford Law School graduate.<

All the salacious headlines are (mostly) true -- as of today, you can't unlock a carrier-subsidized smartphone on your own before the contract associated with it runs out without technically running a

Ruh-roh. While we were happy to discover <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2012/11/20/grexits-inboxwhiz-keeps-you-from-obsessively-checking-your-gmail-by-hiding-it-from-you/">a simple Gmail add-on</a> f

YouTube today <a target="_blank" href="http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/2012/10/improving-content-id.html">announced</a> that it is making some important changes to its appeals process for users who

Google just <a target="_blank" href="http://insidesearch.blogspot.com/2012/08/an-update-to-our-search-algorithms.html">announced</a> that, starting next week, its search algorithm will start taking a

Yesterday's announcement that Twitter would be <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2012/01/26/twitter-changes-the-contours-of-censorship-with-country-by-country-blocking/">selectively censoring tweets bas

The news, I’m afraid, is dire. The Internet is about to be destroyed by big media. It is about be killed by two Congressional bills – The ProtectIP and The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) – that a

When Congress updated copyright laws and passed the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) in 1998, it ushered an era of investment, innovation and job creation.  In the decade since, companies l