Publishers representing the writers of songs by Bruno Mars, Katy Perry, Rihanna, Justin Timberlake, Carrie Underwood and hundreds of other artists sued Peloton Interactive Inc on Tuesday, ... (more)

More American households subscribe to digital streaming services than pay for traditional television – a first in U.S. viewing habits, according to a new survey. Some 69 percent ... (more)

Musicians and fans across the world this week are lamenting the loss of an estimated 50 million songs that once lived on MySpace. The news brings back bittersweet memories of the creative ... (more)

Running a torrent site anywhere in the Western world was once an extremely risky endeavor, with prosecutions regularly hitting the headlines. These days there appears to be less ... (more)

In the piracy space, Reddit’s /r/piracy sub-Reddit is an invaluable source of information. It has close to 350,000 subscribers, making it one of the largest piracy-focused discussion ... (more)

Have you reached a few thousand followers on Instagram? More? Congratulations, you are insta-famous. Among other things, though, being an Instagram influencer means that it’s quite ... (more)

Malicious hackers wasted no time exploiting a nasty code-execution vulnerability recently disclosed in WinRAR, a Windows file-compression program with 500 million users worldwide. The ... (more)

The Higher Regional Court of Vienna, Austria, has ruled that YouTube can't be held liable for infringing videos uploaded by users. The Court overturned a previous verdict which held ... (more)

The government on Wednesday decided to forgo submitting to the Diet a bill that would make it illegal to download literary materials without the permission of copyright holders, as ... (more)

Hal Blaine, known as the drummer on various smash hits throughout the 1960s and 1970s, died on Monday (Mar. 11). He was 90. Blaine was a member of the “Wrecking Crew,” Hollywood’s ... (more)

The Press Association, Evening Standard, Independent and Reuters are among more than 200 publishing and music organisations across Europe calling on the European Parliament to adopt ... (more)

When Internet users download or share copyrighted content online, particularly using BitTorrent, they should presume that copyright holders are watching. Transfers that take place ... (more)

On March 4, 2019, the US Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision authored by Justice Kavanaugh in Rimini Street, Inc. v. Oracle USA, Inc., finding that the term “full costs” in 17 ... (more)

In pretty much every part in the world, creators can claim copyright on their work without having to register anything. This is also true in the United States. However, when rightsholders ... (more)

Open source breaches have increased by 71 percent over the last five years, while 26 percent of companies have reported a confirmed or suspected web application breach in the past year ... (more)

NASA is going back to the Moon to stay. It’s part of a bold directive from the President for the U.S. to lead a worldwide endeavor to open a new era of space exploration in a measured, ... (more)

Swiss telecom company Swisscom cannot be forced to block access to foreign internet sites that illegally make films available, the highest Swiss court said on Wednesday, ending a three-year-old ... (more)

Spotify has claimed victory after the Bombay High Court ruled on an injunction lodged by Warner Music Group - although the major has today strongly refuted the DSP's interpretation ... (more)

The Oscars is the most watched awards show of the year, closely followed by hundreds of millions of movie fans around the world. On Sunday, Hollywood’s finest gathered at the red ... (more)

Warner Bros. has shut down a campaign campaign seeking to digitally erase the rat from the ending of Martin Scorsese's Oscar-winning gangster drama The Departed. Organiser Adam Sacks ... (more)

For more than a decade, alleged file-sharers around the world have been pressured to pay significant settlement fees. These so-called ‘copyright-trolling’ efforts are pretty straightforward. ... (more)

Since 2012, downloading music and movies that have been illegally placed online has been prohibited in Japan under the country’s Copyright Act. With punishments of up to two years ... (more)

Peter Tork, the guitarist and wise-cracking character in the 1960s teen-pop sensation the Monkees, died today at the age of 77, a rep for the group confirmed to Variety. Speaking with ... (more)

In September 2013, Valve founder Gabe Newell gave a rare, 20-minute presentation at LinuxCon. He called Linux "the future of gaming," predicting that as the industry became more user-driven ... (more)

China's top copyright watchdog has pledged to strengthen the crackdown on bootlegging of films in theaters and strictly inspect online platforms that sell or spread pirated works, the ... (more)

Lincoln Bandlow is scheduled on Wednesday to argue in a Sacramento federal court that he should not pay sanctions for missing deadlines in roughly 25 cases in which he represents pornography ... (more)

Last week's publication of the final draft of the new EU Copyright Directive baffled and infuriated almost everyone, including the massive entertainment companies that lobbied for it ... (more)

Last year it was reported that an advisory panel for the Cultural Affairs Agency was considering the possibility of rendering the downloading of a broader range of content as a criminal ... (more)

One day last July, Fan Bingbing, China’s highest-paid movie star, seemed to vanished from the face of the earth. Her disappearance occurred around the time the government opened an ... (more)

The European Council’s Romanian presidency announced today it has struck a provisional agreement with the EU Parliament on a draft directive that makes changes to existing European ... (more)