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MPAA Gives Thumbs Up To GOP On Platform Piracy Stance

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Wednesday August 29, 2012 @ 9:43am PDTTags: copyright infringement, Motion Picture Association of America, Republican National Convention

The Motion Picture Association of America, lead by former Connecticut Democratic Senator Chris Dodd, approves of what the Republicans have to say about protecting intellectual property and internet freedom in their party platform. The GOP platform, which was formally approved last night at the party’s convention in Tampa, Florida, strongly advocates internet freedom, especially in terms of deregulation, innovation, competition. The GOP also doesn’t want to “shift control away from the successful multi-stakeholder approach of Internet governance and toward governance by international or other intergovernmental organizations.” In terms of piracy, the GOP platform states that “punitive measures will be imposed on foreign firms that misappropriate American technology and intellectual property.” Here’s what the MPAA had to say in response:

“The Republican Party platform language strikes a very smart balance: it emphasizes the importance of us doing more as a nation to protect our intellectual property from online theft while underscoring the critical importance of protecting internet freedom.  As the party points out, the internet has been for its entire existence a source of innovation, and it is intellectual property that helps drive that innovation.  Copyright is the cornerstone of innovation; it allows creators to benefit from what they create.  As Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor – herself once a Republican elected official – wrote, ‘[I]t should not be forgotten that the Framers intended copyright itself to be the engine of free expression. By establishing a marketable right to the use of one’s expression, copyright supplies the economic incentive to create and disseminate ideas.’

I agree wholeheartedly with my friends in the Republican Party that we must protect the free flow of information on the internet while also protecting American innovators.  It is imperative to our national economy and our national identity that we protect an internet that works for everyone.”

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Aereo Beats Broadcasters’ Effort To Take It Down Pending Trial

By DAVID LIEBERMAN, Executive Editor | Wednesday July 11, 2012 @ 3:21pm PDTTags: Aereo, copyright infringement

UPDATE, 6:56 PM: Aereo CEO and Founder Chet Kanojia is taking a victory lap following today’s court decision. He says it “shows that when you are on the right side of the law, you can stand up, … Read More »

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Global Biz Briefs: Aussie Downloads, Univision-FiOS, George Soros, Greece Fest

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Sunday June 3, 2012 @ 6:43pm PDTTags: copyright infringement, Univision, Verizon FiOS

27% Of Australians Admit To Illegal Downloads
Some 27% of Australians persistently or casually download screen content illegally and at a growing rate over the past 12 months, according to new research from the Intellectual Property Awareness Foundation, a coalition of film and TV organizations. The report showed 86% of people who download or stream illegally at least once a week admit they do so because it’s free. Incongruously, 71% of the 1,654 adults surveyed acknowledge that piracy is stealing but 76% don’t think they contribute to the problem. Some 50% of respondents agree that Internet Service Providers should take more responsibility to prevent the illegal distribution of movies and TV shows online. — Don Groves

Univision Signs New Deal With FiOS
Univision Communications has reached a comprehensive multiyear agrement with Verizon FiOS to continue carrying the U.S. Spanish-language media leader’s Univision and TeleFutura network feeds and owned-and-operated broadcast stations, the cable network Galavisión. Multichannel News reports the deal also includes Univision’s new cable services sports network Univision Deportes, telenovelas network Univision tlnovelas and FOROtv, a Spanish-language news network. The FiOS agreement also includes plans for multiplatform authentication rights for Univision’s upcoming interactive digital video platform for existing and new networks. The FiOS pact is Univision’s third far-reaching affiliate agreement in 2012. Dish Network and AT&T U-verse reached deals in January and May.
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Stallone Sued Over ‘Expendables’ Script

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday October 25, 2011 @ 11:49pm PDTTags: Copyright, copyright infringement, Lionsgate, Nu Image/Millennium, Sylvester Stallone, The Expendables

Sylvester Stallone has been sued by a writer who alleges the hit movie The Expendables copies a script and short story he filed with the U.S. Copyright Office in 2006. Marcus Webb says he then made available … Read More »

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Viacom Urges Appeals Court To Order Jury Trial In YouTube Suit

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday October 18, 2011 @ 5:40pm PDTTags: Copyright, copyright infringement, Google, Viacom, YouTube

Viacom and Google/YouTube were back in court Tuesday arguing over last year’s federal district court ruling that relieved YouTube and its parent Google of massive copyright infringement charges, Bloomberg reported. Viacom told a panel of three judges … Read More »

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SAG Member Cops Plea On Screener Leak

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday September 14, 2011 @ 8:57pm PDTTags: Black Swan, copyright infringement, FBI, SAG, Screen Actors Guild

Actor Wes DeSoto has agreed to plead guilty to copyright infringement for leaking an awards screener of Black Swan and other films to file-sharer BitTorrent. DeSoto’s L.A. apartment was raided by FBI agents in April after a MPAA piracy officer tipped the … Read More »

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