White House, Tech Giants Aim to Keep Online Ads Off Rogue Sites (CNET) The White House and eight major tech companies unveiled best practices for online ad networks aimed at cutting off revenue to websites selling counterfeit goods or engaging in copyright piracy. Read the White House release here.
Has Patent, Will Sue – An Alert to Corporate America (The New York Times) Inside the mind of a patent troll – IPNav, owned by Erich Spangenberg, is a Dallas-based company that helps “turn idle patents into cash cows,” with its typical client an inventor or corporation demanding a license fee from an infringer.
Goodreads Hit With Copyright Suit Over Fan Photo (paidContent) Photo agency BWP Media has filed a copyright lawsuit against Amazon’s Goodreads site over a celebrity image posted by one of the site’s members.
Executives are Biggest Risk for Copyright Infringement (Fort Mill Times) A recent study found that nearly half the executives surveyed for the study are potentially exposing their organizations to the risk of copyright infringement violations.
RIAA Wants Infamous File-Sharer to Campaign Against Piracy (Wired) The RIAA offered music file-sharer Jammie Thomas-Rasset a reduction of her $222,000 fine if she agreed to make a public statement against piracy.
Broadcasters Lose Final Appeal to Take Down Aereo (Ars Technica)
A coalition of broadcasters, in its suit against Aereo, asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit to take their case “en banc,” but the court declined.
Keith Kupferschmid is General Counsel and SVP, Intellectual Property Policy & Enforcement at SIIA.