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DigiProtect Now Handing Pre-Settlement Threat Amounts Over To Collections Agencies
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| They're now sending out these letters at a
| massive rate, and while they're not
| actually filing lawsuits, it appears that
| at least one of the firms involved,
| DigiProtect, is getting a collections
| agency involved in some cases. That seems
| pretty nasty. There's no actual debt here,
| because the person has not agreed to pay
| up, but by handing it over to a
| collections agency, the person will now
| get hounded with demands for payment. It's
| difficult to see how this is even close to
| legal.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20091207/0102027231.shtml
Music Publishers Lawsuit Against Yahoo, Microsoft, Real Tossed For Failing To Prove They Hold Copyrights
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| In some cases, those rights are still held
| by independent music publishers -- and
| there was a fair amount of confusion over
| who owned what. It was a perfect example
| of how ridiculous copyright law is today
| that even in setting up a big music
| operation from a major company with the
| major record labels, no one was exactly
| sure if all the proper rights were
| secured.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20091207/0102027231.shtml
IFPI Use IPRED To Demand File-Sharer Info For The First Time
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| Music industry group IFPI has today
| submitted a request to the Stockholm
| District Court to force an ISP to hand
| over the personal details of an alleged
| file-sharer. The action marks the first
| time a request has been made by the
| organization under the IPRED legislation
| introduced in April.
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http://torrentfreak.com/ifpi-use-ipred-to-demand-file-sharer-info-for-the-first-time-091207/
Artists' lawsuit: major record labels are the real pirates
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| Between $50 million and $6 billion may be
| owed to musicians and artists in Canada,
| but not from your run-of-the-mill file
| sharers. The Canadian recording industry
| itself is being accused of massive
| copyright infringement, and the list of
| miffed artists just keeps getting longer.
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http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/12/artists-lawsuit-major-record-labels-are-the-real-pirates.ars
How Team Tenenbaum missed a chance to shape P2P fair use law
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| A federal judge has made it official: P2P
| file-swapper Joel Tenenbaum is on the hook
| for $675,000. The real tragedy here,
| though, is what might have been, as the
| judge admits she was receptive to all
| kinds of limited fair use claims and again
| slams the record industry's lawsuit
| campaign.
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http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/12/how-team-tenenbaum-missed-a-chance-to-shape-p2p-fair-use-law.ars
Recent:
P2P Pre-Settlement Letters In Germany May Have Been Illegal; Lawyer
Who Reveals This Threatened With Lawsuit
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| There have been plenty of legal questions
| over the activities of a small group of
| companies in Europe, including law firm
| Davenport Lyons, ACS:Law, Logistep and
| Digiprotect among others -- who all seem to
| work together to purposely put files online
| that they have licensed, and then send
| threat letters to the owner of any IP
| address that connects to them. This leads
| to a fair number of totally bogus demands
| for people to pay up to avoid getting sued.
| Apparently, the business is quite
| profitable, even as no actual lawsuits have
| been filed.
|
| [...]
|
| After a German lawyer, Thomas Stadler,
| reviewed all this and posted his analysis
| saying that the efforts in Germany were
| clearly illegal under German law (Google
| translation from the original) , the German
| lawyer who had sent the original document
| (the leaked one, detailing how these
| operations worked), Udo Kornmeier sent him
| a cease-and-desist letter (again, Google
| translation from the original), demanding
| he take down his blog post that showed the
| whole operation was illegal. Apparently,
| lawyers who may be breaking the law in
| Germany don't like other lawyers exposing
| them...
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20091204/0924437205.shtml
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