Virgin Media and Universal Music Group have taken the plunge into an ISP and digital music collaboration to provide customers in the UK with unlimited access to MP3 downloads and…
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The End of the Tail
Chris Castle is Managing Partner of Christian L. Castle Attorneys, Los Angeles and San Francisco. You’ve probably heard the expression “the long tail” used by Web 2.0 cognoscenti. Despite the…
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…
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…
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,…