Arizona is one of my favorite states. We planned on another family vacation in Tucson last month in January, but work needs won out. I like the Arizona weather (except summer heat and monsoons), colors of the landscape and the sky (check out these sunsets). I want to bring my drone there again to take

U.S. Department of Commerce Proposes Changes to Statutory Damages Under the Copyright Act Recently, the U.S. Department of Commerce Internet Policy Task Force issued a report proposing changes to the current statutory damages under the Copyright Act, “White Paper on Remixes, First Sale and Statutory Damages” In recent years, there has been a surge in

I was recently interviewed by the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin, the “lawyer’s newspaper” printed in Chicago since 1854. Its the type of newspaper that older attorneys still read every day, delivered to their office, and contains the daily docket for state and federal courts in the Chicago metropolitan area. But the subject was very “new

The Pirate Bay – Down Forever? Today, TorrentFreak reports “The Pirate Bay lost all of its active “Hydra” domain names this morning. ThePirateBay.LA, .GD, .MN and .VG were suspended by their registrar, alongside several other TPB related domains. The domain troubles make the site hard to reach through the usual channels, but The Pirate Bay

We recently were contacted by someone who received a notice from their ISP that a subpoena was issued demanding their identity be released in connection to a federal copyright lawsuit alleging illegal BitTorrent use to download a movie. This person’s father adamantly said “no one in this household uses BitTorrent.”  The son chimed in, stating