Ralph Lauren put out an ad which consisted of a retouched photo of a model. The model is made to look impossibly thin, such that her proportions seem anatomically improbable.

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A few hours ago Internet search mogul Google removed the Pirate Bay frontpage from its search results. According to the company this action was taken after it received a DMCA takedown request, which is odd since there are no torrents to be found on the homepage of The Pirate Bay.

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Sad to see 20th century companies still grasping their 19th century business models in the 21st century. You show 'em, Lessig...

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The Pirate Bay defendants wanted to know why they were being prosecuted while Google was not, even though Google also indexes .torrent files. A new site called "Pirate Google" tries to make the same point; we speak with the site's anonymous creator.

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In October 2007, radio personality Michael Savage (aka Weiner--hence the case caption) went on an anti-Muslim tirade on his radio show. This has become the source of at least 2 lawsuits.

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"There's a storm gathering." A minute-long TV spot by a group called the National Organization for Marriage is already spawning YouTube parodies of its grave, Terminator-esque warning about gay marriage destroying the American Way of Life.

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After four years of working with the NYTimes, loving them and linking to them often, thus driving lots of traffic, they've gotten dirty on us and, without warning, written to our hosting provider and threatened them with a lawsuit if they don't shut us down and/or remove all the  …

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Jailbreaking an iPhone constitutes copyright infringement and a DMCA violation, says Apple in comments filed with the Copyright Office as part of the 2009 DMCA triennial rulemaking.

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Ryan Spaulding, the proprietor of Boston-based music blog Ryan's Smashing Life, noticed something odd happening to his archived posts a few months ago. Some of Spaulding's posts, both recent and older, long-forgotten ones, started disappearing from his site.

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We believe that the internet offers extraordinary and valuable opportunities for education, and through sites such as YouTube, a forum for open discussion and exchange of views.

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Finally. The major record labels are coming around to voluntary collective licensing, as we've been urging (and predicting) since 2003. Last week, TechDirt posted a set of leaked slides suggesting that Warner Music Group has opened a discussion with several major U.S.

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Apple, in an attempt to prevent third party developers from understanding how to build software for iTunes, has shut down numerous projects. Essentially they are contending that even talking about their protocols is a violation of the DMCA.

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The author asserts that the DMCA has stifled innovation. Since this is what big government typically does best, it would not surprise me in the least.

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If you're wondering whom to thank for the Web 2.0 explosion in interactive websites, consider sending a bouquet to Congress.

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Trevor Potter, the general counsel for the McCain-Palin presidential campaign, sent a letter on Monday to Chad Hurley, the chief executive of YouTube, complaining that the video service, now owned by Google, had inappropriately removed McCain commercials from its site.

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THROUGHOUT this election season, Americans have used the extraordinary capacity of digital technologies to capture and respond to arguments with which they disagree.

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After seeings its videos repeatedly removed from YouTube, John McCain's campaign on Monday told the Google-owned video site that its copyright infringement policies are stringent to the point of stifling free speech, and that its lawyers need to revamp the way they evaluate copyr …

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8tracks: Online Mixtapes, Legally

Those of you with better-than-average memories may recall an article I wrote on Muxtape a few months back. In that article, I questioned the legal standing of the site.

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Universal Music Corporation ("Universal") had sent a takedown notice targeting a 29-second home movie of a toddler dancing in a kitchen to a Prince song, "Let's Go Crazy," which is heard playing in the background.

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In the nation's first such ruling, a federal judge on Wednesday said copyright owners must consider "fair use" of their works before sending takedown notices to online video-sharing sites.

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The outcome was predictable to anyone with an ice cream scoop worth of brain jelly slapped into their skull cavity, but professional psychic Uri Geller somehow didn't see it coming: his company, Explorologist Ltd., had its spoon bent by the EFF yesterday over a frivolous DMCA tak …

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Federal software contractors take note: A federal appeals court in the US recently ruled that a software owner couldn't sue the government for copyright infringement and anti-circumvention violations after the US Air Force refused to pay for a software license and cracked control …

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SAN JOSE, California -- Universal Music told a federal judge here Friday that takedown notices requiring online video-sharing sites to automatically remove content need not consider whether videos are protected by the "fair use" doctrine.

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But the really sad part, the part none of those young kids in the theatre knew, the truly despicable part, is that poor Wall-E would be deemed a dirty copyright criminal under Canada's new copyright law. Bill C-61 would criminalize much of Wally's behavior in the film.

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I got a comment from Ian Lamont, managing editor of The Industry Standard, wondering why we didn't introduce the concept of "Fair Use" in our story about media companies using content recognition systems to go after bloggers and others that use their material (in particular …

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