14 May 12: Rest in peace, Perfect10 v. Google: epic copyright struggle finally dismissed - Last month, after eleven years, three Ninth Circuit opinions and 1,212 docket entries in the trial court, soft-porn multimedia company Perfect10, Inc. stipulated to the dismissal of its copyright infringement claims against Google (and others) in the Federal District Court for the Central District of California (Foley Hoag)

12 May 12: Optus to appeal ‘TV Now’ copyright infringement finding

8 May 12: Seventh Circuit case explores copyright liability for embedding infringing videos - Copyright litigation between two relatively minor parties before the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit has seen amici briefs from the likes of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), Google, and Facebook (Arent Fox)

27 Apr 12: UK ‘three-strikes’ copyright piracy law put on hold - The introduction of the UK’s controversial graduate response – ‘three-strikes and you’re disconnected’ – process for dealing with online copyright infringement has been delayed for two years.

27 Apr 12: Optus cloud-based TV recording service found infringing on appeal - The Full Court of the Federal Court of Australia has ruled that the Optus ‘TV Now’ cloud-based recording service infringes copyright.

20 Apr 12: Australian ISP not liable for customers’ BitTorrent copyright infringements - The Australian High Court has ruled in favour of an ISP which failed to terminate access to the Internet for those of its customers engaged in copyright infringement using the BitTorrent protocol, on the ground that the ISP “had no direct technical power at its disposal” to prevent a customer from using the BitTorrent system to download the films.

11 Apr 12: Expanding Australia’s copyright safe harbour scheme: the industry response - Internet intermediaries support reforming the copyright infringement safe harbour scheme, while rights-holders want the ALRC to consider the issue (Clayton Utz)

11 Apr 12: Second Circuit reverses dismissal of Viacom’s $1 billion copyright case against Google - In Viacom International Inc.’s $1 billion copyright suit against Google Inc., and its YouTube platform, the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit found that summary judgment on the issue was premature, because evidence existed from which a reasonable jury could conclude that YouTube had actual knowledge or awareness of specific infringing activity on its website (Loeb & Loeb)

20 Mar 12: Six Bills reforming Internet copyright proposed through social media

8 Mar 12: Berlin court rules Facebook violates user rights

7 Mar 12: Pinterest’s popularity soars, but (p)interesting copyright questions abound - Enter Pinterest, the latest social networking site on the block. If you haven’t heard of it, you will soon – and chances are you’ll be hearing “Pinterest” and “copyright” frequently mentioned in the same breath (Foley Hoag)

6 Mar 12: Record companies win first round v The Pirate Bay in the UK but pirates remain at large

2 Feb 12: Australian court finds Optus cloud-based TV recording service non-infringing - The Federal Court of Australia has ruled that Optus does not infringe copyright in the TV programs recorded by users of its ’TV Now’ cloud-based recording service

22 Jan 12: US Anti-piracy Bills postponed, copyright infringers charged and jailed - The US Department of Justice has trumpeted the bringing of charges against the principals of one online copyright infringement site, and the jailing of the founder of another, at the same time as voting on the controversial US Anti-piracy legislation was postponed

21 Jan 12: US Senate Postpones PIPA Vote; EU Commissioner Joined Opposition - The new age of lobbying through online public engagement showed its effectiveness today as the Senate announced the postponement of next week’s vote on controversial anti-piracy legislation that led to unprecedented protests on the internet (by IP Watch)

20 Jan 12: Occupy IP: New Economy Businesses Clash With Old - It may be too much, too late for content providers finally trying to tame the internet, and a fresh approach is needed, writes Bruce Berman (by IP Watch)

20 Jan 12: SOPA – What’s it all about? – Stumped by SOPA? Perplexed by PIPA? In light of Wikipedia’s blackout this week, Managing IP provides a simple guide to legislation pending in the US Congress and the debates surrounding it (by Managing IP)

14 Dec 11: Australian ISPs propose “Notice and Discovery” scheme for infringing customers - Five major Australian Internet Service Providers have released details of a proposed scheme for assisting copyright owners to enforce their rights against customers downloading infringing material

29 Nov 11: ECJ rules out injunctions against ISPs that require filtering to prevent illegal downloads –  the Court of Justice of the European Union has held that under EU law, a national court cannot impose an injunction requiring an ISP to install a wide ranging filtering system in order to tackle illegal downloading since such an injunction is incompatible with EU law and the associated limitations on intermediary liability (by Hogan Lovells)

16 Nov 11: Barrage Of Doubts Voiced On US Internet Piracy Bill - International critics say that the draft US Stop Online Piracy Act would put the United States on the same ground as China with regards to internet filtering, undermining the US argument for internet freedom (by IP Watch)

8 Nov 11: Vanderbilt-Melbourne Global Debate on the future of record labels - On November 15, in Nashville, TN, a distinguished panel of business and academic experts debated the role of record labels in the digital age.

2 Nov 11: UK Judge: ISP Must Block File-Sharing Site In 14 Days, Foot Bill - A UK judge has ordered the country’s biggest internet service provider to block customers from accessing a website where members share unauthorized copies of music and movies (by paidContent: UK)

24 Oct 2011: Consultation Paper on Revising the Scope of the Australian Copyright Safe Harbour Scheme – The Australian government has released for consultation its proposal to expand the type of entities to which the copyright safe harbour provisions apply (by A-G’s Dept)

16 Sep 2011: Comparative analysis of the national approaches to the liability of Internet intermediaries (WIPO / Seng) - The World Intellectual Property Organization has published a comparative survey reviewing the national laws of copyright indirect liability and safe harbor defenses in fifteen countries, from both the civil and common law jurisdictions.

13 Sep 2011: EU extends copyright protection for record producers and performers from 50 to 70 years – The European Union has extended copyright protection for performers and record producers from 50 to 70 years (by IP Watch)

12 Sep 2011: IFPI Digital Music Report 2011 (by IFPI)

7 Sep 2011: Is the price of the New Zealand Internet piracy law a treasure that no-one can afford?

30 Aug 2011: Optus launches pre-emptive strike on TV cloud storage

25 Aug 2011: A-G to host roundtable on online copyright infringement

12 Aug 2011: iiNet case off to the High Court

9 Aug 2011: The final details and technical requirements for the implementation of New Zealand’s Internet copyright infringement regime (Lexology), which comes into force on 1 September 2011, have now been completed and are set out in the Copyright (Infringing File Sharing) Regulations 2011 gazetted last week

29 July 2011: Landmark UK decision on ISP liability (by ACC)

9 June 2011: The Ministry of Economic Development has released a discussion document on proposed regulations under the Copyright (Infringing File Sharing) Amendment Act (which comes into force on 1 September this year)

20 May 2011: The New Zealand parliament passed the Copyright (Infringing File Sharing) Amendment Bill on 14 April, putting a three-tiered system in place for deterring illegal file sharing online

16 May 2011: LimeWire, Record Labels Settle Suit (by WSJ)

12 May 2011: Google has been told it infringes publishers’ copyright by reproducing their headlines, in a decision by the Belgian Court of Appeal (by Managing IP)

12 May 2011: Biggest BitTorrent Downloading Case in U.S. History Targets 23,000 Defendants (Wired)

4 May 2011: A prominent intellectual property law firm has moved to establish an extrajudicial scheme to resolve piracy disputes between internet firms and copyright holders (by Australian IT)

4 May 2011: How Three Strikes is Working (by Managing IP)

26 April 2011: Read Kim Weatherall’s review of the iiNet Full Court decision here (by Fortnightly)

14 April 2011: New Zealand Parliament moves against illegal filesharing (by ACC)

11 Mar 2011: The Internet Industry Association (IIA) has announced its intention to immediately begin developing an industry code of practice for internet intermediaries, following the recent Full Federal Court appeal decision in Roadshow Films which found in favour of ISP iiNet, but left the door open on the question of ISP responsibility (by ACC)