Nearly half a million active “Scrabulous” users were surprised to find that their favorite Facebook application had been pulled from the social networking website. Perhaps even more surprising was that…
Category: Infringement
Copyrights may not mean many rights
On September 8, 2008, a New York federal court ruled that Steven Vander Ark is permanently enjoined from publishing his ‘Harry Potter Lexicon’. The Lexicon is an A to Z…
New Zealand ISPs to cut off internet access for P2P file-sharing
The New Zealand government has taken a novel approach to try to fix what seems to be a nagging problem for governments in today’s connected world: peer-to-peer file-sharing. On Oct.…
Protecting Graffiti Artists
The definition of the boundaries of art, and the privileges of the people who produce ever-evolving art forms, have historically been contentious issues among the general public, however, household and…