Those copyright violation allegations eventually ended in a prison sentence and fees for Svartholm.
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Until Saturday morning, when it was yanked from YouTube for a copyright violation, you could have seen it too.
Later, after a small tempest of protest, YouTube unblocked the video, saying that it was not a copyright violation.
And if copyright violation enabled by accessible inventions like the BookLiberator catches on, it could lead to headaches for the publishing industry too.
They sued Costco for copyright violation in July 2004, and won an injunction barring the warehouse retailer from selling the otherwise legit Omegas.
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NASCAR, asserting its rights to images of everything that occurs at any NASCAR race, had the video taken down as a copyright violation.
Now All Things Digital reports that Parker has joined a consortium looking to buy Warner Music Group, one of the major mainstream labels that sued Napster for copyright violation and had a hand in shutting the site down.
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But an appeals court later lifted the injunction, taking issue with some of the grounds upon which Judge Whyte's injunction was based, especially the copyright-violation claims.
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Mr. Lavinbuk explains that a person in the U.S. who downloads a song or movie from a server in Antigua without authorization from the copyright holder is reproducing that work in violation of U.S. copyright law.
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But it's a likely violation of copyright law, which stipulates that no one, except the copyright holder, gets to produce "derivative work" or adaptations.
Now, if the authors of the Sweet 16 were to copy portions of, say, a diagnostic manual explain the best way to administer the test, that probably (and rightly) would be a violation of copyright.
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The bill would make it explicitly clear that it is not a violation of copyright law to alter somebody's work without permission, as long as it's for private use only and these altered copies of the work are not redistributed in anyway.
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