WordPress Wednesday News: 4 WordCamps, WordPress 2.6.2, Bad Themes, Count Twitterers, Threaded Comments, and Sticky Posts
Four WordCamps and one WordPress Meetup all on September 27. It s WordPress Day! WordPress 2.6.2 released. Update now. New Plugin released taking advantage of new features in 2.6.2. Comment threading and inline editing added to upcoming WordPress 2...

84 GMAT Scores Cancelled For Students Who Used Copyright Infringing Test Prep Site
Back in July we wrote about our surprise at the fact that the Graduate Management Admission Council, who creates the GMAT test used as part of the admissions process for many business schools, had won a copyright infringement lawsuit against a test p...

Disney Joins NBC And Viacom In Demanding UK ISPs Kick File Sharers Off The Internet
While Disney is quite often painted as the leader of the pack when it comes to ridiculous and draconian copyright-related proposals, much of that can be attributed to former CEO Michael Eisner, who helped push for the Bono Copyright Extension Act to ...

Is It Copyright Infringement For A Political Campaign To Use A Snippet Of A News Broadcast In An Ad?
Reader Video Savant alerts us to the fact that CBS Interactive is the latest entity to ding the McCain campaign for copyright violations. In this case, CBS has sent a takedown notice to YouTube concerning one of McCain s latest commercials. The com...

Initial Thoughts on Genius
OK so I ve been playing around with Genius and here are my initial thoughts / experiences: If you ve got a lot of indie catalogue in your iTunes catalogue (and I do) it reveals just how may gaps remain in the iTunes Music Store catalogue. The ...

Groups Urge Senate Not To Turn The Justice Department Into Hollywood s Private Police Force
As we noted earlier this summer, Senator Patrick Leahy had introduced a companion bill to the House s dreadful Pro-IP bill, except that Leahy s bill went further. Beyond just adding a Copyright Czar position to the White House, it would authorize ...

CBS Goes To Court To Let The NFL Know That You Can t Copyright Player Stats
Over the past few years, there have been a series of lawsuits concerning whether or not fantasy baseball operators need to license player info from Major League Baseball. Major League Baseball lost at every level and an eventual appeal to the Suprem...

More Scammers Using Bogus Copyright Infringement Accusations To Get Their Way
Last Friday, we noted that scammers were picking up the success the entertainment industry was having with pre-settlement letters to accused file sharers, and using a similar tactic with phone calls, demanding money to avoid getting sued. We noted...

Copyright Extension In Europe Will Only Make Musicians A Tiny Amount Of Money; But Will Cost Consumers
When the EU ignored tons of evidence and the very purpose of copyright in announcing plans to extend performance copyrights from 50 to 95 years, the politicians who supported this proposal (of course) insisted that they were doing so to benefit the a...