Category: copyright trolls
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So, you got a copyright infringement demand letter from Higbee & Associates?
Some context In 2018 Jake Haskell and I published an article called “Defense Against the Dark Arts of Copyright Trolling” in the Iowa Law Review. The article focused on BitTorrent related litigation…
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Prenda is gone, but copyright trolling continues
A pattern of “brazen misconduct and relentless fraud” Like many, I took great satisfaction from reading that John L Steele had plead guilty and acknowledged his role in the “copyright trolling” scheme that…
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Copyright Trolling in Chicago (17980 IP addresses and counting)
WBEZ ran a story on Thursday, based in part on my research first published in the Iowa Law Review. The story, Why Are So Many People In Northern Illinois Being Sued For Downloading…
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Some thoughts on Malibu Media’s recent loss and its implications
(Malibu Media LLC v. Doe, Docket No. 1:13-cv-06312 (N.D. Ill. Sept 04, 2013) Malibu Media’s case against yet another John Doe defendant was tossed out of court on February 8th by United States…
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(2/4) 2015 Data on Copyright Litigation in the US
2015 Update This is the second in a series of posts discussing the 2015 Update to the data in my forthcoming article, IP Litigation in United States District Courts: 1994 to 2014 (Iowa Law Review, forthcoming 2016). You…
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(1/4) 2015 Data on IP Litigation in US District Courts
Introduction to the 2015 Update This is the first in a series of posts discussing the 2015 Update to the data in my forthcoming article, IP Litigation in United States District Courts: 1994…
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Some cool graphs from my paper on IP litigation in US district courts
I have just revised my article, IP Litigation in US District Courts: 1994 to 2014, which will be published in Volume 101 of the Iowa Law Review next year. (You can download the article from ssrn now.) This…
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New empirical study of IP litigation in US District Courts
IP Litigation in United States District Courts: 1994 to 2014 I have just posted a new empirical study of IP litigation in US District Courts to SSRN. At the moment it has…
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Copyright and Pornography — Is now the time to panic?
There were 2004 copyright lawsuits filed in federal district courts in the United States in the period from January 1st to June 30th 2014. Just under 48% of these suits were filed…
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Copyright Trolling Data, Updated to June 30 2014
Copyright Trolls, Pornography, Statutory Damages… [Revised at 5:43pm to account for an idiotic mistake in Excel – Just going to show that you should not use excel for even the most simple…