The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has held that TVEyes, Inc., a media company that continuously monitors the content of more than 1,400 television and radio channels, is not protected by the fair use doctrine, reversing the lower court’s finding of fair use and concluding that TVEyes infringes the copyrighted broadcast of Fox News Network (the plaintiff). ...
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit has set rules clarifying the eligibility of Internet access providers for limiting their liability for copyright infringements committed by their subscribers.
In 2014, BMG Rights Management, a music publisher, sued Cox Communications, an Internet access provider, on the theory that Cox had knowingly ignored requests to terminate the accounts of ...
The European Union is reexamining its 2011 adequacy finding of Israel which had cleared the path for cross-border transfers of personal data from the EU to Israel, the Head of the Israeli Privacy Protection Authority, Adv. Alon Bachar, revealed at a conference held by Pearl Cohen’s Internet, Cyber and Copyright Group on "Europe and Israel: The Data Protection Revolution ...
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has released guidance on Public Company Cybersecurity Disclosures. The guidance provides the Commission’s views about public companies’ disclosure obligations under existing law with respect to matters involving cybersecurity risk and incidents. It also addresses the importance of cybersecurity policies and procedures and the application of disclosure controls and procedures, insider trading prohibitions, and ...
A Belgian court ordered Facebook to stop tracking Belgian citizens surfing the Internet, and to delete all data it unlawfully obtained on Belgian citizens who are not Facebook users. The court also ordered that if Facebook does not comply with the ruling it will face compounding fines of € 250,000 per day. The court also held that Facebook failed to ...
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit has set rules clarifying the eligibility of Internet access providers for limiting their liability for copyright infringements committed by their subscribers.
In 2014, BMG Rights Management, a music publisher, sued Cox Communications, an Internet access provider, on the theory that Cox had knowingly ignored requests to terminate the accounts of ...
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