Dish Network and its security partner, Nagrastar, have sued “Boom Media” alleging that the set-top boxes and streaming service sold by the company are intended to receive hundreds of pirated TV channels from Dish’s Satellite TV Service.
Biggie Smalls Transforms Copyright Fair Use
The Notorious BIG is back to teach us about Copyright Transformation. Christopher Wallace’s estate (and others) were sued for infringement of The Last Poet’s lyric “party and bull . . .” in “When the Revolution Comes” from 1968. Let’s see why Biggie’s use of the phrase is a “quintessential fair use”.
YouTube Gets Lawyered! New “Fair Use” Video
YouTube has released a new Fair Use primer. It’s more of a short myth-buster over a promo of YouTube’s new features.
FAIR USE WINS, Copyright Troll Loses, over “News” Screenshot
Judge Nathan in the Southern District of New York has ruled that a use of a cropped screenshot of a copyrighted “news” article is a Fair Use where the secondary user made criticism and commentary as opposed to simply republishing the article.
Unconscionable! PhantomLord WINS Minor Contract Decision in Twitch Lawsuit
James Varga, aka PhantomLord, the former Twitch Streamer, has won a decision finding the $50,000 “cap” or maximum payout provision in his contract is invalid or “unconscionable”. Let’s see why and what happens next.