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Owner of Mega and MegaUpload sites fighting US extradition says Google and others should help his defence fund in return for using his patent, but earlier filings cast doubt on claim Kim Dotcom in a New Zealand court in 2012.

A driving force for the development of the Internet was to provide certainty for Internet service organizations on the liability exposure they may have for acts of third parties on their Internet sites.

Big changes may be afoot in copyright law these days, via both litigation and legislation.

When most people think of a trade agreement, they're unlikely to think that it would have anything to do with regulating the Internet.

Copyright owners from around the world, including American music publishers and a U.K. soccer league, banded together with much fanfare in 2007 to bring a class action lawsuit against YouTube LLC and its parent Google Inc.

So, where do indies really stand on streaming services? Whisper calculations show that indies typically get paid less than their major label counterparts per song played, and that doesn't even include monstrous upfront advances and ownershiup shares raked by the Big Three.

The last time Congress tried to pass major copyright reforms, 2011's Stop Online Piracy Act and Protect IP Act , it pissed off just about every corner of the Internet, from Google to Wikipedia to the Teen Witch Fan Club .

The general legal advice to website operators who allowed User Generated Content in the form of comments, videos or pictures used to be relatively easy.

Hong Kong-based Oron.com says it's just an ordinary cloud storage company, like Dropbox or Apple's iCloud.

On its face, a bipartisan bill introduced in the House of Representatives last Thursday to permanently legalize cellphone "unlocking" isn't particularly groundbreaking.

Few names strike as much fear--and derision--among Internet lawyers as Perfect 10.

A bipartisan bill allowing for the unlocking of devices without service provider permission has been introduced in the House of Representatives.

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Editor's note: Sid Venkatesan is an IP partner specializing in high stakes IP disputes and IP counseling for technology companies in the Silicon Valley office of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP.

Defense Distributed's goal is to evaporate the container described by the Second Amendment, making obtaining a firearm trivial enough that even trying to place restrictions on gun manufacturing becomes useless.

For years the content copyright industries have been lobbying, in national law or within trade agreements, for overreaching rules that would break the Internet in the name of copyright enforcement.

A funny thing happened on the way to Congress yesterday. For once, lawmakers introduced a common-sense bill: the Unlocking Technology Act of 2013 .

The World Wide Web Consortium , the group that orchestrates the development of Web standards, has today published a Working Draft for Encrypted Media Extensions , a framework that will allow the delivery of DRM-protected media through the browser without the use of plugins such as Flash or Silverlight.

Learn about use of cutting-edge applications, ranging from location-based services and mobile payments to machine-to-machine communications and augmented reality.