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Copyright, Elon Musk and the Farting Unicorns of Doom
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You can learn a lot about copyrights by reading the lame excuses Musk tweeted, then deleted, for ignoring an artist’s copyrights.
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What Should You Do When Someone Steals Your Content?
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By Holly Reisem Hanna One of the challenging things about the online world is that everything is just out there. You create something (whether it’s a blog post, a web design, a photo, Pinterest image, or e-book) and you post it online, and anyone can try and steal it and claim it as their own—and […]
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5 Laws Every Blogger Needs to Know
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By Sarah Landrum Whether you do it for business reasons or purely pleasure, blogging can be an activity that is extremely empowering, fun and informative. However, it also carries a great deal of responsibility, which is especially true if you are a blogger who has built up a large amount of recognition in your industry […]
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Amway Sues Sony
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Amway is back in court over a dispute with record companies tied to a copyright infringement case settled 16 years ago.
The multi-level marketing giant is suing UMG Recordings Inc., Sony Music Entertainment and Warner Music Group Corp., for violating a 1998 settlement, which required them to provide notice of copyright infringement allegations by Amway distributors so the Ada-based company could investigate and stop them, reportsLaw360.
Instead music companies worked together to conceal the information for at least 18 months before ambushing Amway with numerous complaints, according to the suit filed by Amway’s parent company, Alticor Corp., in April in Orlando, Fla.
Earlier this month, a federal judge in Orlando declined to throw out the case but narrowed the copyright-related suit, Alticor Inc. v. UMG Recordings Inc., according to Bloomberg.
“Amway is pleased that the Court upheld our filing of the breach of contract claim and that the case will continue to move forward,” the company said in a statement to MLive. “We remain confident in our case and our efforts, including policies and training programs, to educate employees and distributors about the proper use of copyrighted materials.”
In 1998, Amway agreed to pay $9 million to settle a lawsuit that alleges Amway and some of