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Friday the 13th Legal Case Ends With Screenwriter Successful
Friday the 13th Legal Case Ends With Screenwriter Successful You may recall that last June the Friday the 13th game, created by Gun Media, had to go on hold. The reasoning for it was a little tricky, but it simply all boiled down to a copyright claim. The original screenplay…
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Imagination Technologies Shares Plummet After Being Ditched by Apple
UK chip company Imagination Technologies has seen its shares fall by 70% after Apple revealed that is will stop using the company’s intellectual property in its hardware from 2019 onwards. Apple has used the British outfit’s PowerVR GPUs since its A4 SoC – which powered the iPhone 4 and 4th-gen…
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WikiLeaks Reveals ISPs to Disclose Copyright Infringer Details Under TPP
WikiLeaks has been revealing details of the Trans-Pacific Partnership since the deal was agreed (but not signed) by Australia, the United States, New Zealand, Canada, Singapore, Vietnam, Malaysia, Japan, Mexico, Peru, Brunei, and Chile last week after years of negotiation, and the latest documents show that internet service providers in…
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Hollywood Sues US Popcorn Time Users
The studio responsible for producing maligned Adam Sandler comedy The Cobbler, which currently holds a risible 9% on Rotten Tomatoes, has filed a lawsuit in Oregon against 11 people who watched the film through ‘Netflix for pirates’ app, Popcorn Time. This is the first time that a copyright holder has…
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Lawyers Tell UK Government You Can’t Jail Online Pirates for 10 Years
The UK Government, currently in consultation over a proposed revision to current copyright infringement, has been told point-blank by the British and Irish Law, Education and Technology Association (BILETA) that sending pirates to jail for 10 years – one of the government’s proposals – is “unacceptable, infeasible and unaffordable.” The…
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Hollywood Issuing DMCA Takedowns for Content on Their Own Computers
Are you familiar with this message? “In response to a complaint we received under the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act, we have removed 1 result(s) from this page. If you wish, you may read the DMCA complaint that caused the removal(s) at ChillingEffects.org.” It appears at the bottom of Google search results, usually…
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Online Pirates in UK Could Face 10 Years in Prison
The UK government is considering a law that would see online pirates face up to 10 years in jail. At present, online piracy carries a maximum sentence of 2 years in prison, in extreme circumstances, but MPs have begun a consultation regarding increasing the penalty to 10 years, which would…
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White House Wants to Make Illegal Downloads a Felony Offense
The White House has weighed in on the issue of media copyright infringement online, asserting that illegal downloads should be made a felony offense. Alex Niejelow, Chief of Staff to the US Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator and National Security Council’s Head of Cybersecurity Policy, said in a statement, “we believe…
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Nvidia Post Great Q3 Fiscal Results and Reveal Licensing Plans
Nvidia has posted some very impressive Q3 fiscal year 2015 results. The GPU manufacturer had a revenue of £1.23 billion during that period, an impressive increase by 16% year-over-year. The overall revenues are at £3.43 billion and that is 15% over last year. The new generation of graphics cards with…
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The word iPhone becomes banned in Mexico after trademark ruling
We hear enough these days about how Apple is taking on Samsung for the nth reason yet again, but over the last few months there has been another case brewing with Apple, but this time it is against them. In Mexico, a company known as iFone S.A. de C.V. registered their name…
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Patent Royalties Getting Out of Hand: Could Exceed $120 Per Smartphone
Anyone who follows smartphones will know that the rise of patent wars, patent trolls and massive battles over intellectual property has already started to get out of hand – you only have to look to the endless lawsuits between Apple and Samsung to see that. However, to paraphrase the latest report…
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