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Senator Leahy introduced the PROTECT-IP Act (S. 968) on May 12, designed to combat websites “dedicated to infringing activities.” The legislation is cosponsored by Sens. Schumer, Feinstein, Whitehouse, Graham, Kohl Coons, and Blumenthal. According to the official summary, the legislation would allow the Justice Department obtain court orders against these sites and require third parties […]
Sen. Klobuchar has introduced legislation that would make illegal streaming of copyrighted materials a felony. This was one of the legislative recommendations made in the Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator’s report to Congress in February. The legislation has not yet been placed online, but a coalition of the Motion Picture Association of America, the Independent Film […]
In October 2009, Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa issued Decree 118 to improve access to medicines and support public health programs through a protocol that would reduce drug costs. The protocol established procedures for the compulsory licensing of pharmaceutical patents. Compulsory licensing authorizes generic competition with patented, monopoly protected drugs. Generic competition reduces costs and enables […]
IP Enforcement Roundup USTR Releases Special 301 Report On Monday May 2, USTR published the 2011 Special 301 Report, available here. After examining 77 countries, it included 12 on the Priority Watch List, 28 on the Watch list, and under “Section 306 monitoring.” Most of the countries in this year’s Special 301 Report have been […]
VPR International, a Canadian content producer, has filed a complaint against 1,017 Doe defendants for distributing its copyrighted material online. The Doe defendants are identified only by their IP addresses, so VPR sought an order from the court allowing it to subpoena their internet service providers for the “subscriber and location associated with each IP […]
A group of musicians led by Alki David, founder of the streaming service FilmOn.com, has sued CNET and its parent company, CBS Interactive, for distributing LimeWire and other peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing systems. The lawsuit, filed May 3, claims that “The CBS defendants have been the main distributor of LimeWire software and have promoted this […]
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