Category Archives: News

Finally, A Return to Fair Harvesting!

I will truly never understand why people use cheats, bots or hacks to achieve a better outcome in computer games. And I find World of Warcraft boring even without these cheats. So when people use bots to collect fictional herbs and other odds and ends in the fictional World of Warcraft world (more…)...

Mrs. Doubtfire

Peter D. was a customer of one of our clients and had neglected to pay his bills. So we applied for a court order, which, after being contested by Peter D., led to proceedings under the jurisdiction of the local district court. An ordinary story so far! Of course, from time to time, a suit cannot be served (more…)...

I know it when I see it…

At the 2013 Copyright and Technology Conference in London I rediscovered just how much the phrase “I know it when I see it” bothers me. In the case of Jacobellis v. Ohio in 1964, Potter Stewart, a Supreme Court Justice in (more…)...

Are Cloud storage services responsible for large-scale copyright infringements? Megalupload met a spectacular end at the beginning of 2012; Hotfile was recently found guilty of aiding and abetting copyright infringements (U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, 1:11-cv-20427). On the other hand - at a first glance - other services such as iCloud, Microsoft Skydrive or Dropbox (more…)...