Category: Intellectual Property

A video from the news and politics program The Young Turks discusses, the 2012 song “Harlem Shake” that spawned countless YouTube dance videos after going viral last month. However, the New York Times reported that the popularity was especially surprising to individuals whose records were used in the song without their permission. Philadelphia rapper Jayson

In a video from the technology news website SiliconANGLE, contributing editor John Casaretto discusses whether “rogue” mobile apps are really a danger to the film industry. The segment addresses the takedown notice that Warner Bros. recently sent Google demanding that the company remove the “Hobbit 3D Wallpaper HD” app from its store. As SiliconANGLE host

In a February 19 post to the blog InternetNZ, Susan Chalmers examined the first two cases that came before New Zealand’s Copyright Tribunal as part of that country’s “Three Strikes” copyright infringement program. Chalmers wrote that the written decisions showed that the account holders had a limited understanding of the technology they had been punished for using,

A video posted online shows some of the pictures that street photographer Brandon Stanton has used as part of his Humans of New York photo project. In a February 25 post to his Facebook page, Stanton included a photo a fan had sent him from a DKNY store in Bangkok. “The window is full of

During the final lap of the NASCAR Nationwide Series auto race at Daytona International Speedway on February 23, a multi-car crash sent Kyle Larson’s car airborne and into the catch fence. The crash on the eve of NASCAR’s biggest race of the year, The Daytona 500, sent 14 fans to the hospital after a tire

In 2009, Andy Baio, of CreativeMornings, put together an 8-bit version of “Kind of Blue,” the classic Miles Davis album. Baio’s version was entitled “Kind of Bloop” and he had a friend create a pixel-art version of Jay Maisel’s photo for the iconic cover. The photography blog PetaPixel reported that “Baio meticulously licensed all the

A trailer for the documentary “The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard” (or “TPB AFK”), which was recently released online. The film is about the 2009 Swedish trial of the four founders of “The galaxy’s most resilient BitTorrent site.” Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm and Carl Lundström were all found guilty of copyright infringement and were sentenced