News Roundup - December 2014

1. Google sues Mississippi Attorney General 'for doing MPAA's dirty work'
2. China opens second intellectual property rights court
3. Google & MPAA Publicly Slam Each Other Over Piracy
4. Swedish Supreme Court Determines Movie Piracy Fines
5. “How To Learn Absolutely Nothing In Fifteen Years,” By The Copyright Industry
6. Sony Planned to Flood Torrent Sites With “Promo” Torrents
7. Leak Exposes Hollywood’s Global Anti-Piracy Strategy
8. The Pirate Bay Goes Down Worldwide
9. Google News Is Taken Offline In Spain, After A Call For Payments

News Roundup - November 2014

1. Net neutrality: FCC tells Obama to back off
2. Has Switzerland cracked the net neutrality riddle?
3. CJEU asked to rule on copyright liability of operators of free and open Wi-Fi networks
4. Operation Onymous may have exposed flaws in Tor, developers reveal
5. Right to be forgotten poses more questions than answers
6. Amazon takes 22.5% of UK entertainment market Pirate Bay Founder Peter Sunde Released From Prison
7. AVG Monitors Torrenting Habits to Advise Heavy Downloaders
8. 17 Arrested As European, U.S. Officials Raid Online Black Markets
9. Picking The Locks: Redefining Copyright Law In The Digital Age

News Roundup - October 2014

1. Close To 100,000 Hungarian Demonstrators Protest Internet Usage Tax
2. In An Online, On-Demand Age, TV Reruns Are Redefined
3. UK reforms enabling private copying, parodying and general quotation of copyrighted material come into force
4. Academic behind copyright law changes warns that rights holders could lose even more control of content by taking test cases to court
5. Oettinger sketches out EU copyright reforms timetable

News Roundup - September 2014

1. CJEU defines works of parody and rules that rights holders' interests must be considered

News Roundup - August 2014

1. Is posting football Vines copyright infringement?

News Roundup - July 2014

1. Doubt cast over proposed UK laws on private copying 
2. Digital Economy Act copyright regime shelved by UK government
3. Private copying exception plans face possible legal action following parliamentary sign off

News Roundup - June 2014

1. Private copying, parody and quotation rights rules move closer to being implemented
2. Researchers given 'data mining' right under new UK copyright laws
3. Viewing freely available copyrighted material on websites does not require rights holders' permission, rules CJEU
4. Rights holders can control resale of digital content that is not software, rules German court