At the beginning of this year, Italy put in place its national anti-piracy platform, the so-called ‘Piracy Shield’. While the overall aim is to protect intellectual property rights and reduce the spread of pirated content online, particularly in the case of live streams, in practice the Piracy Shield constitutes the perfect example of what to avoid when setting up rules that allow for the blocking of content on the internet.

Mathilde Adjutor and Claudia Canelles Quaroni · September 18, 2024

Game of Thrones is arguably the world’s most popular show. In 2014, it surpassed The Sopranos as the most popular […]

Jacqueline Yin · May 29, 2019

Two Dutch organizations, the University of Amsterdam’s Institute for Information Law and the research firm Ecorys, just released a Global […]

Jonathan Band · August 2, 2018

This morning Google released an updated “How Google Fights Piracy” report, an extensive survey of how assorted Google products, including […]

Matt Schruers · July 13, 2016

The DMCA safe harbors are again in the spotlight, with extensive new research and an upcoming Copyright Office notice of […]

Matt Schruers · March 31, 2016

Today the Copia Institute released a report entitled The Carrot or the Stick? Innovation vs. Anti-Piracy Enforcement.  The idea of […]

Matt Schruers · October 8, 2015

Today a federal court of appeals in New York upheld an antitrust judgment against Apple, affirming a trial court’s finding that the technology […]

Matt Schruers · June 30, 2015

Jurassic World grossed over $315 million abroad last weekend, including more than $100 million in China. The overseas success of […]

Jonathan Band · June 19, 2015

In a Bloomberg Businessweek interview last month, Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom talked extensively about copyright and business models.  Dotcom, who […]

Matt Schruers · June 2, 2015

A striking Variety cover article shows that there is considerable consensus within the film industry on its greatest challenge right […]

Jonathan Band · January 30, 2015