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Tendre histoire que celle racontée par le magazine M du journal Le Monde, et mise en ligne ce week-end (en fait une reprise non sourcée d'un reportage du New York Times ). Quantitativement parlant, Hyman Strachman fait très certainement partie des pires pirates des Etats-Unis. L'homme aurait réalisé plus de 300 000 copies sur DVD de films distribués par Hollywood comme Gran Torino , Very Bad Trip , Transformers , The Artist , ou Le Discours d'un roi .
Il pirate 300 000 fois et Hollywood ne peut rien dire
That sinking feeling: will Titanic copyright claim go down without a trace?
From the 'I don't believe it department', this Kat brings you news that on 10 February 2012 a lady by the name of Princess Samantha Kennedy, of Imperial Beach, California, filed an action against Paramount Pictures in the US District Court for the Southern District of California in relation to the motion picture blockbuster Titanic . As we all know, Titanic was a critical and commercial success: it won 11 Academy Awards (including Best Picture) and has earned approximately US $2 billion at the box office. James Cameron is credited as being the writer of this particular production and he duly registered version editions of both the screenplay and the film with the US Copyright Office back in the late 1990s.
A viral video featuring a drunken Alberta man belting out an impassioned rendition of the lengthy song “Bohemian Rhapsody” while sitting in the back of an RCMP cruiser has fallen victim to copyright rules. Most versions of the video posted on YouTube have now been removed at the request of EMI Music Publishing, which owns the rights to the song, although it’s still possible to find copies of the video elsewhere online.
Bohemian Rhapsody (drunk version) pulled down by music giant EMI
Stephen Fry has weighed into a legal battle over the name of The Hobbit pub in Southampton. Photograph: Getty Images/PA The battle between Hollywood and The Hobbit gained an unexpected new recruit as the British performer Stephen Fry threw his weight behind a campaign to save an imperiled Southampton public house.
Stephen Fry joins The Hobbit pub's fight with Hollywood | Film | guardian.co.uk
L'affaire des films X piratés du studio américain Hard Disk Productions continue de faire parler d'elle, à travers une affaire judiciaire qui pourrait potentiellement rendre légal le piratage de films pornos aux Etats-Unis.
Le piratage de pornos bientôt légal aux USA ?
The Home Video Prince Doesn't Want You to See - ABC News
A bouncing YouTube baby has be-bopped his way right into the legal cross-hairs of the pop star Prince, sparking a lawsuit that could test the boundaries of U.S. copyright law. Holden Lenz, 18 months old, is the pajama-clad star of a 29-second home movie shot by his mother in the family's rural Pennsylvania kitchen and posted last February on the popular video site YouTube.from the keep-up dept
Can You Keep Up With Everyone Suing Over How Avatar 'Stole' Its Story? | Techdirt
Voici encore une illustration de la censure par abus de droit d'auteur.
Un minutieux montage des JT de Pernaut censuré au nom du droit d'auteur
Louis Vuitton attaque Warner Bros en contrefaçon
On connaît beaucoup de plaintes assez grotesques en matière de protection de la propriété intellectuelle, mais celle-ci devrait facilement rejoindre le palmarès. Louis Vuitton a déposé plainte contre Warner Bros en contrefaçon (ce qui en soit est une douce ironie), parce que le producteur a osé utiliser un faux sac Louis Vuitton dans une scène de son film Very Bad Trip 2 .
Very Bad Trip 2 –la suite de Very Bad Trip qui en plus d'être l'un des films les plus piratés de 2011 a aussi fait un carton au box office– attire les soucis judiciaires, rapporte le Guardian.
Louis Vuitton porte plainte contre Warner Bros pour Very Bad Trip 2 | Slate
Though the slip up that caused Night of the Living Dead to lapse into the public domain is most likely the best-known case of copyright affecting horror movies, it is far from the only nor is it the first. The truth is that copyright has been creating havoc with horror movies for as long as there have been horror films, all the way back to at least 1922 , when the estate of Bram Stoker, the author of the original Dracula novel, took an upstart video company that made an unlicensed adaptation of the book. This battle not only helped shape horror movie history, but it is also something of a vampire tale unto itself.
Dracula vs. Nosferatu: A True Copyright Horror Story | Plagiarism Today
Even if you aren’t a horror movie fan or have never seen a zombie film, you’ve probably at least heard of “The Night of the Living Dead”.
How a Copyright Mistake Created the Modern Zombie
Previously this month, we talked about how a copyright blunder led to Night of the Living Dead being released into the public domain and how a copyright dispute nearly led to the destruction of Nosferatu , now regarded as one of the best early vampire films and created much of the modern vampire lore. However, this week’s post is a bit of a twist.
How Universal Re-Copyrighted Frankenstein’s Monster | Plagiarism Today
Man Sues Claiming 'Hangover II' Ripped Off His Life Story (Exclusive) - Hollywood Reporter
Was The Hangover Part II inspired by the tale of an American who experienced a rocky honeymoon in Asia?We're not sure what's more scintillating — that a German court has banned Beyonce's video for "Video Phone" because she is wearing copyrighted underwear or that in defending the video, Sony tried to invoke Pablo Picasso. A Munich District Court has ruled that the black-and-white cubist-pattern print undergarment (right) violates the intellectual property of underwear manufacturer Triumph. As a result, Judge Peter Guntz said the highly original bra deserves — pardon our translation — "a very broad scope of protection" and has ordered the video be stripped off television.