Aereo Files Complaint Against CBS to Stop More Lawsuits (CNET)
After CBS vowed to file another lawsuit against Aereo in Boston, despite losing the last couple rulings, Aereo filed a complaint against CBS asking the court to prevent CBS from filing any more lawsuits against it.
A Caribbean Headache for Obama’s New Trade Rep (Bloomberg Businessweek)
In an effort to exact revenge against the U.S. for kicking its online casino operators out of the country, Antigua is now threatening to allow people to ignore protection of intellectual property rights for trademarks and copyrights, and is taking bids from websites that traffic in pirated goods, including top contender The Pirate Bay.
Judge Asks IRS, Feds to Investigate Copyright-Trolling Attorneys (Wired)
A federal judge sanctioned Prenda Law attorneys for running a BitTorrent “copyright lawsuit factory,” and recommended federal prosecutors investigate for potential criminal charges.
MegaUpload Lawyers Claim DOJ Charges Have No Basis in Law (PC World)
MegaUpload lawyers released a white paper arguing that the U.S. Department of Justice’s copyright infringement case against the file storage service is “prosecutorial overreach” based on a misreading of U.S. law and a “theory” of criminal secondary copyright infringement.
German Court Convicts, Sentences BitTorrent Site Operator to Nearly Four Years (Ars Technica)
A German district court sentenced a 33-year-old alleged operator of a Russian-hosted torrent site to three years and ten months in prison for abetting copyright infringement, one of the harshest sentences ever.
Keith Kupferschmid is General Counsel and SVP, Intellectual Property Policy & Enforcement at SIIA.