The crippling economic sanctions the West imposed in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine have led to Russian retaliation. Russia’s symbolic sanctions of President Biden and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau may get...more
3/18/2022
/ Bilateral Investment Treaties ,
Economic Sanctions ,
Foreign Investment ,
Intellectual Property Protection ,
Investor State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) ,
Investor-State Arbitration ,
Military Conflict ,
Retaliation ,
Russia ,
Trade Retaliation ,
Trademarks ,
Ukraine
Central District of California Judge Gary Klausner ruled the founders of rock band Led Zeppelin – and more particularly, front men Jimmy Page and Robert Plant – must face a jury trial to determine whether the band’s most...more
Russia’s Facebook, vKontakte, is under fire for its allegedly poor handling of pervasive copyright infringement on its platform (literally translated from Russian, “v kontakte” means “in contact”). The Association for the...more
Litigation-friendly pornography producer Malibu Media has suffered a rare loss, which may spell trouble as it proceeds with more cases.
According to the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin, Malibu Media has filed 5,207...more
On the fourteenth anniversary of 9-11, H.R. 3490—the Strengthening State and Local Cyber Crime Fighting Act—was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives. On Monday, November 30, 2015, it passed with an overwhelming...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
10/20/2015
/ BitTorrent ,
Copyright ,
Copyright Infringement ,
Copyright Litigation ,
Digital Downloads ,
Digital Media ,
Illegal Digital Downloads ,
Internet Service Providers (ISPs) ,
Music Industry ,
Music Streaming ,
Online Platforms ,
Pornography
Congress rarely accomplishes anything these days, but the need to reform Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code seems to have “crossed over the aisle.” When the Bankruptcy Code was enacted in 1978, America boasted the world’s...more