Category: Intellectual Property

Less than a week after multiple owners of Washington DC television stations—including Fox, NBC, ABC and Albiritton Communications—filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against digital media entrepreneur Alkiviades “Alki” David’s FilmOn.TV video-on-demand website and his Aereokiller service, the entertainment news website Deadline.com reported on May 28 that David said he was pulling the broadcasters from his streaming service.

As the Wall Street Journal put it in a May 21 story, “It took almost no imagination to pretend that the nameless Rutgers University quarterback in the popular EA Sports NCAA Football videogame was Ryan Hart.” The Rutgers quarterback in the video game exhibited virtually every one of his traits with the exception of his

The multiplayer online video game World of Tanks broke its own Guinness World Record for Most Players Online Simultaneously on one MMO Server in April 2012 when more than 305,000 players were on a European server. At the end of last year, the game had 45 million registered players worldwide. The popularity inevitably led to imitators, but

Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird” won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction after being published in 1960. More than 30 million copies of the novel have been sold in the half-century since, as it has been translated into over 40 languages and the book is required reading at schools across the country. The Associated Press

Last month, we discussed US Register of Copyrights Maria Pallante’s March appearance before the US House of Representatives Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet  Committee on the Judiciary in which she said copyright law is “showing the strain of its age and requires your attention.” On April 24, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob

Fox canceled the space western television series “Firefly” in 2002 because of low ratings after 11 of the 14 produced episodes aired, but the series enjoyed strong sales when it was released on DVD and gained a strong cult following. In this video, actor Adam Baldwin—who played the mercenary Jayne Cobb on the show—performs “Hero of