Peloton Pissed Off Music Execs And Now It Might Have To Pony Up $150 Million
Yesterday, Peloton got a nasty surprise in the form of a $150 million lawsuit from the National Music Publishers’…
NYC's New Tourist Trap Claims the Rights to Every Photo You Take Inside of It [Update: Not Anymore]
New York City’s newest luxury neighborhood, Hudson Yards, officially opened on Friday and visitors are already…
Kickstarter to Remove That Rat From the End of The Departed Whacked By DMCA Takedown
Kickstarter has exterminated a campaign to exterminate the infamous rat from the end of The Departed after Warner Bros.…
YouTube Updates Its Three-Strikes Policy—But Not the One You're Mad About
Making bullshit copyright claims to get content removed from YouTube remains a tried-and-true way to screw with…
R.E.M. Copyright Complaint Gets Trump Tweet Axed by Twitter
Apparently even Donald Trump is not immune to copyright takedowns. On Friday, the president tweeted a mocking video…
It's Now Legal to Hack DRM to Repair Your Own Devices
In a blow to manufacturers that use digital rights management (DRM) protections to prevent consumers from tinkering…
Senate Unanimously Passes Music Modernization Act, Improving Artist Payouts From Streaming Giants
The Senate cleared a bill late on Tuesday, the Music Modernization Act, that will dramatically restructure the way…
Kim Dotcom Is Almost Entirely Out of Chances to Avoid Being Extradited to the US
Kim Dotcom, the former founder of defunct file hosting service Megaupload and its successor Mega, just lost another…
Wikipedia Italy Blocks All Articles in Protest of EU's Ruinous Copyright Proposals
Last month, members of European Parliament voted to move forward with a sweeping overhaul of the European Union’s…
USPS Ordered to Pay $3.5 Million After Putting Artist's Weird 'Sexier' Lady Liberty on Stamps
The US Postal Service will have to pay a sculptor who recreated the Statue of Liberty for a New York-themed Las Vegas…
The End of All That's Good and Pure About the Internet
We regret to inform you that the internet is on red alert once again. On Wednesday, the EU’s Legislative Committee…
The Founding Fathers of the Internet Plead With EU to Squash Its Bad Copyright Bill
Once again European lawmakers are set to vote on a bill that promises to change the internet as we know it. Experts say…
How 1960s Film Pirates Sold Movies Before the FBI Came Knocking
It was a Friday evening in 1975, and Woody Wise was driving from Los Angeles to Palm Springs, with his two kids in the…
Spotify Agrees to Fork Over $112 Million to Artists in Class Action Settlement
Spotify has faced a number of accusations regarding violations of copyright in recent years and this week saw one of…
E-Waste Innovator Will Go to Jail for Making Windows Restore Disks That Only Worked With Valid Licenses
California man Eric Lundgren, an electronic waste entrepreneur who produced tens of thousands of Windows restore disks…
Eventbrite's Bonkers 10,000 Word User Agreement Allows It to Film, Own Copyright From Any Event [Updated: Not Anymore]
Eventbrite is one of the largest event hosting platforms on the planet. It’s been used to plan millions of events in…
Pepe the Frog Creator Files Lawsuit Against Infowars
Matt Furie, the creator of Pepe the Frog, is continuing his copyright war against the alt-right by targeting Alex…
Danish Man Convicted of Telling Web Users Where to Download Popcorn Time
A Danish man has been handed down a six-month conditional sentence for merely sharing information about Popcorn Time,…
Man’s YouTube Video of White Noise Hit With Five Copyright Claims
Sebastian Tomczak is a music technologist and professor who likes to upload random experiments to YouTube. One of his…