trolls – Courtroom Strategy by Attorney Oscar Michelen

New Copyright Regs Could Screw Website Owners: Seriously, Beware!

November 1, 2016 Oscar Michelen 4

From the Electronic Frontier Foundation comes this news: Under a new rule from the Copyright Office, website owners could be exposed to massive risk of copyright liability simply for neglecting to submit an online form on time. The rule could eliminate the safe harbor status that thousands of websites receive under the Digital Millennium Copyright […]

NY Federal Court Rules Copyright Trolls Cannot Use “Negligence” Theory

July 20, 2012 Oscar Michelen 0

In another major blow to copyright lawsuits filed by the porn industry, Judge Lewis Kaplan of the Southern District of NY, ruled that porn distributor Liberty Media could not rely on a theory of negligence in its copyright infringement case against a NY man named Cary Tabora. The complaint alleged that Tabora’s roommate, Schuyler Whetstone, […]