Torrent Defenders®

Dallas Buyers Club LLC, the copyright owner of the Oscar winning motion picture starring Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Garner, and Jared Leto,  begun an apparent nationwide litigation campaign in February 2014 suing internet users it alleges illegally downloaded the movie Dallas Buyers Club using BitTorrent or similar peer-to-peer file-sharing programs. Last week, on April 26 2014,

The U.S. Supreme Court granted certiorari for American Broadcasting Companies, Inc., et al v. Aereo, Inc. on January 10, 2014. This case has the potential to change the landscape of broadcasting, transmission and retransmission/recording and has garnered a great deal of attention. First, we provide some short, pertinent background on the Betamax and Cablevisions cases

Garcia v. Google: The Recognition of an Independent Copyright in Actors’ Performances and Its Impact on the Film Industry In an interesting opinion issued by the Judge Kozinski of the 9th Circuit on Feb. 26th, the court issued a preliminary injunction forcing YouTube to remove a video posting and opened the door for actors to

Parts I and II have laid the framework for ICANN and how the newly available domain names will operate. But, how will all of this affect trademark owners and how will disputes be handled? The next wave in the domain name business will be providing specific domain names to trademark owners interested in purchasing them.

Part I provided an introduction to ICANN, its many acronyms and how the system came to be. This section focuses on what this means for consumers. ICANN’s Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO) conducted trials in the early 2000s and introduced a policy development process in 2005 based on the introduction of new gTLDs. The new