US President Donald Trump’s expanding crises with both North Korea and Iran, and his apparent willingness to withdraw from a second US-Russia nuclear arms control treaty, are just some currently prominent examples of a longer standing problem with world politics and international law. This problem is the continuing US inclination to base American national security [...]
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UK court grants Nintendo injunction requiring internet providers to block Switch piracy websites
The UK High Court of Justice ruled Tuesday that Nintendo (NCL) has sustained significant losses as a result of pirated games being accessed and downloaded onto Nintendo Switches, granting an injunction requiring internet service providers to block piracy websites. The court stated that: The injunction strikes a fair balance between protecting NCL’s rights and the [...]
Supreme Court adds 3 new cases on copyright, fraud, post-sentence objection
The US Supreme Court issued orders Monday adding three new cases to the docket for next term on subjects including copyright, fraud and post-sentence objections. The Supreme Court granted certiorari in Allen v. Looper, which asks whether Congress can remove a state’s Eleventh Amendment sovereign immunity from cases involving federal copyright infringement. The case, rather [...]
Targeting Jihadist Terrorists: Identifying Pertinent Legal Guidelines
Targeted killing campaigns are still accelerating under the Trump administration, with fewer constraints and even less transparency. More precisely, it seems that the Obama-era Presidential Policy Guidance has been relaxed in two very meaningful ways: targets of “kill missions” are being expanded to include more Jihadist “Foot Soldiers” (rather than just identifiable terrorist leaders) and directed drone [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist, Curt Levey, of the Committee for Justice, discusses the implications of Kim Dotcom's fight to avoid extradition from New Zealand to the US...Notorious Internet pirate Kim Dotcom suffered another legal setback last month in his fight to...
DOJ and FBI takedown largest ever illegal dark web marketplace
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) together with the FBI have seized and shut down AlphaBay, a criminal marketplace on the "dark web" on Thursday. The site, which has reportedly been operating on the...
Canada Supreme Court rules Google must remove website from its global search results
The Supreme Court of Canada upheld an order on Wednesday that directed Google to block a company's website from is global search results. The ruling stems from a suit brought by a...
Europe court rules The Pirate Bay directly infringes copyrights
The European Court of Justice on Thursday ruled that the BitTorrent sharing site, The Pirate Bay (TPB) , is directly infringing on copyright laws. TPB allows users to share and download movies, television shows and...
European Court of Justice rules sale of devices that make piracy easier may violate copyright law
The European Court of Justice ruled Wednesday that devices with pre-installed software that make it easier to stream pirated content may violate an European Union (EU) copyright protection directive . The court determined that the...
Supreme court declines to hear Vimeo copyright infringement case
The US Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an appeal from record companies that want to pursue a copyright infringement case against music site Vimeo for hosting music by classic artists....