A woman claims pornography is not copyrightable because it is not a science or useful art even if she did download some porn, which she did not. Liuxia Wong sued Hard Drive Productions ... (more)

The hobbyist was testing the camera on board his small uncrewed aerial vehicle (UAV), when he spotted it: a creek in Dallas, Texas, running red with blood. He'd captured a picture ... (more)

One of the more interesting things over the past few months is just how mainstream copyright issues have suddenly become. This point has been driven home with the news that Ruben Bolling's ... (more)

Ben Gazzara, an intense actor whose long career included playing Brick in the original “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” on Broadway, roles in influential films by John Cassavetes and work ... (more)

Dear Hollywood, You don’t need us to tell you that your position on anti-"piracy" laws has been unpopular recently. Last month’s historic protests, with millions of Americans ... (more)

A recent lawsuit filed against the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is drawing attention to the question of whether employees have a reasonable expectation of privacy when using personal ... (more)

It took an Internet-wide outcry from millions of voters to prompt Rep. Lamar Smith, author of the Stop Online Piracy Act, to postpone a vote on the controversial Hollywood-backed bill. ... (more)

Earlier this week, we reported on efforts by an Indiana state legislator who was interested in getting creationism inserted into the state's science classrooms. He managed to get a ... (more)

Anger at last month's decision by the European Union and 22 of its member states to sign the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) has led to widespread protests, hacked Web sites, ... (more)

Megaupload boss Kim Dotcom (read our in-depth profile in the article) was denied bail on Thursday by a New Zealand court. Dotcom insisted that he had no desire to flee the country and ... (more)

Out of reach of regular internet searches is the secretive online world known as the 'dark web' - anonymous, virtually untraceable global networks used by political activists and criminals ... (more)

An adult film company based in California has filed suit in New York to obtain the identities of individuals who illegally downloaded one of its pornography movies. Digital Sin ... (more)

In the past week 10 porn BitTorrent lawsuits were filed in federal courts throughout the U.S. Four of the suits were filed by a newcomer in copyright infringement litigation - Bubble ... (more)

Piracy’s a fact of life. As a defence against having their intellectual properties swiped, cracked and traded online like so many baseball cards, a lot of companies have turned to ... (more)

Virgin Media is to up the price of its broadband packages, three months after it said it was doubling its customers' speeds for free. In early January, the cable giant announced ... (more)

A dispute over ReDigi, an upstart company that lets users buy and sell "used" digital music files bought on iTunes, is quickly heating up as either the must-watch copyright case of ... (more)

Right now, representatives from nine countries including the United States are secretly meeting in a luxury hotel in Beverly Hills to negotiate the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, ... (more)

Google learned the hard way that free is not good for everyone. The search engine giant was fined by a French court because giving Google Maps away for free is anti-completive. The ... (more)

Criminal hackers have found a way round the latest generation of online banking security devices given out by banks, the BBC has learned. After logging in to the bank's real site, ... (more)

VeriSign Inc, the company in charge of delivering people safely to more than half the world's websites, has been hacked repeatedly by outsiders who stole undisclosed information from ... (more)

When the US Supreme Court decided last year to extend full First Amendment protections to video games, many likely thought that was the last word on potential legal assaults on the ... (more)

Federal authorities said Thursday they had seized and shuttered 307 domains, 16 allegedly engaged in unauthorized live sports streaming and the remainder accused of selling fake professional ... (more)

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today officially asked all parties involved in the Megaupload criminal case to refrain from deleting any data stored on servers once leased ... (more)

One of the worst parts of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) was its ridiculous secrecy, under which it was easy for negotiators and industry reps to see draft text, but ... (more)

Bestselling Brazilian novelist Paulo Coelho is joining in with a new promotion on the notorious file-sharing site the Pirate Bay, and calling on "pirates of the world" to "unite and ... (more)

A man is helping police with enquiries following a raid on a business in Sydney's inner-west alleged to be part of an international Chinese pay TV piracy operation netting $70 million ... (more)

The websites of Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich and the former Soviet republic's interior ministry were put out of action on Wednesday as disgruntled Internet users hit back at ... (more)

After a decade-long battle against file-sharing, music and technology giants are now pushing users to share to their hearts' content, with online music recommendations a key issue at ... (more)

Microsoft Corp. took out full-age ads in major newspapers Wednesday, slamming privacy policy changes at search rival Google Inc. that allow it to merge user data across its services. ... (more)

The U.S. White House has declined to respond to a petition calling for authorities to investigate the head of the Motion Picture Association of America for bribery related to comments ... (more)