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Not so bizarre, Pirate Bay Operators found guilty

Not so bizarre, Pirate Bay Operators found guilty

Sundeep Chauhan is currently Vice-President and General Counsel to the NRCC. The Swedish courts have rendered a landmark verdict against the largest peer-to-peer site in the world.  The four men behind Pirate Bay, the Swedish file-sharing site used by an estimated 22 million users to freely exchange copyright protected movies, music, software, and video games, […]

Voluntary collective licensing, Humpty Dumpty and the house of cards

Voluntary collective licensing, Humpty Dumpty and the house of cards

Chris Castle is Managing Partner of Christian L. Castle Attorneys, Los Angeles and San Francisco.  If you believe as I do that "voluntary collective licensing" is neither voluntary, collective nor a license, you will be interested in reading "Choruss's Covenant: The Promised Land (Maybe) For Record Labels; A Lesser Destination For Everyone Else," a very […]

Song Samplers Beware: Your future is far from certain.

Song Samplers Beware: Your future is far from certain.

  Amanda Cohen is a first year law student at Osgoode Hall and is taking the Legal Values: Challenges in Intellectual Property course Song Samplers Beware: Your future is uncertain. Friday, March 13th marks the Canadian release date of RIP: A Remix Manifesto, Montreal filmmaker Brett Gaylor’s look into mash-up culture and sampling.  This film and its […]