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The Dallas Buyers Club LLC v iiNet Limited piracy court case raises many questions about what sort of trail people leave when they use technology to make illegal copies of movies and other copyrighted material. The Federal Court of Australia has ruled...

The Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New York ruled on October 16 that Google’s library book scanning project is protected by fair use and so does not constitute copyright infringement. The decision, which rejects the latest challenge in Authors Guild...

Today’s guest post is by attorney Bradlee Frazer, who has been a guest here several times before. Read his previous posts: Q&A on Copyright—plus his 101 post on copyright Guidelines on using trademarks in your work You might also want...

Artur Debat/Getty Images Ever since 1999, when millions of Internet anarchists turned to Napster to share copies of the latest Backstreet Boys song, debate has raged about how to turn off the seemingly infinite tap of copyrighted music, movies, TV and...

Stories about copying turn up a lot on Techdirt. That's largely as a consequence of two factors. First, because the Internet is a copying machine -- it works by repeatedly copying bits as they move around the globe -- and the more it permeates today...