George Lucas loses copyright battle over stormtrooper uniforms.

Theoretically, does this mean that making and offering up for sale knitting patterns of Doctor Who aliens fine and legal?

NSW Federal Court has dismissed the application by the Internet Industry Association to be heard as amicus curiae (friend of the court) in the iiNet caseBasically that means that the IIA can't make submissions to the court about how a ruling again ISP iiNet would weaken various copyright and communications laws that give ISPs protection from ( Read more... )

The Pirate Bay is found guilty of copyright infringement1. Does this mean Google and other search engines are guilty of copyright infringement? They link to torrents and copyrighted material as well ( Read more... )

TAUNTAUN SLEEPING BAG!!

Evangelion 2.0 teaser trailers are up.

I couldn't care two hoots about the Twilight series (saw the movie on the plane, it induced a lot of eye-rolling/malicious laughter/face-palming), but fandom_lawyers has linked to something interesting. Apparently some paranormal website (not a publishing house from what I can tell) is planning to ( Read more... )

Twilight in Fifteen Minutes. Guess I don't have to watch this movie anymo-- oh, I probably will so I can join in properly on all the pointing and lulz-ing.

Forgot to post this up last week, but the film and TV industry is suing internet service provider iiNet for 'permitting illegal downloading'. Basically the film and TV bodies can't be bothered ( Read more... )