Enforcement News

SIIA Says U.S. Businesses Should Register with ICANN Trademark Clearinghouse to Protect Themselves from Intellectual Property Theft (SIIA)
With the launch of ICANN’s trademark clearinghouse earlier this week, SIIA urged businesses to register their brand names in order to protect them from being claimed by others as domain names.

SafeNet and SIIA Survey Reveals Where Software Publishers are Losing Up to 50% of Revenue (SIIA)
A joint survey from SafeNet and SIIA reveals where software publishers are losing revenue, with factors such as inadequate licensing models, piracy, IP theft, lack of usage insight, and back-office dysfunction.

AP Wins Big: Why a Court Said Clipping Content is Not Fair Use (paidContent)
A federal court has sided with the Associated Press and the New York Times in its case against news-monitoring service Meltwater, in a ruling that limits the amount of content that can be clipped under fair use.

Debate Over Music Piracy Writ Large, on Billboard (The New York Times)
The band Ghost Beach was offered major exposure on a Times Square billboard, and is using it to debate music piracy.

File-Sharing Service isoHunt Illegally Fosters Piracy, Appeals Court Says (Wired)
A federal appeals court ruled that the popular BitTorrent file-sharing service isoHunt and its related websites violate U.S. copyright law and are on the hook for hefty monetary damages.

Simon & Schuster Will Give Authors Direct Access to Piracy Data (paidContent)
Simon & Schuster will offer their authors data on how and when their books are being pirated online.

Keith Kupferschmid is General Counsel and SVP, Intellectual Property Policy & Enforcement at SIIA.