I suppose it should come as no surprise that Amelia Andersdotter, a member of Sweden’s Pirate Party and the youngest member of the European Parliament, is hostile to the very idea of a music in...
https://dmcaforce.com/pirate-party-rep-artists-dont-have-the-right-to-get-money/
DMCA Force is pleased to announce that we have joined the ranks of the National Association of Recording Merchandisers (NARM), a trade association established back in 1958 to advance the business...
In a decision handed down yesterday, a five-judge panel from the New York Supreme Court held that the ‘safe harbor’ provisions of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act do not shield Grooveshark...
https://dmcaforce.com/court-grooveshark-not-protected-by-dmca-safe-harbor-on-pre-1972-recordings/
Back in October, I wrote briefly about Capitol Records’ (a division of EMI Music) lawsuit against ReDigi, a service that allows users to store, stream, buy and sell “pre-owned” digital musi...
https://dmcaforce.com/judge-either-the-law-or-redigi-must-change/
A new study published by the Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (part of the European Commission’s “Joint Research Centre”) asserts that “Internet users do not view illegal d...
There’s an encouraging, if modest, trend afoot in the ongoing battle against online piracy: rights-holders, recording artists, and those who support them are starting to make some noise of the ...
https://dmcaforce.com/can-pressure-on-major-brands-over-support-of-piracy-sites-make-a-difference/
Synchronicity is a funny thing. This morning, in deliberating what topic I should take up next on this blog, a question occurred to me: Why are so many advocates of unfettered file-sharing and/or...
https://dmcaforce.com/cory-doctorow-on-plagiarism-and-copyright-infringement/
When it comes to the subject of the online piracy of music, there’s no shortage of information available on the Web. Unfortunately, a lot of that information can be categorized as “questionab...
https://dmcaforce.com/required-reading-for-those-interested-in-the-subject-of-online-music-piracy/
Earlier this week, I sent a link to my previous post on this subject to an old friend of mine. Once upon a time, we were both in local rock bands and fancied ourselves to be future professional m...
https://dmcaforce.com/piracy-and-the-entitlement-mindset-again/
At the heart of the “safe harbor” provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act is the idea that Internet Service Providers should not be liable for infringements on copyright undertaken...
https://dmcaforce.com/the-vimeo-case-a-study-in-knowledge-and-control/