Publications

Privacy laws are only as strong as their enforcement. In California, the state’s privacy agency recently issued its largest-ever fine for violation of the state’s privacy law—and all because of a consumer complaint. The state’s privacy law, the Cali...

Note: The weekend before last we filmed a spy plane leaving a UK airbase on Cyprus and heading towards Gaza. The footage will feature in a documentary out later this month on our YouTube channel. We are standing on a sand dune in the pitch dark liste...

Every year, the US Trade Representative (USTR) issues an updated review of “Notorious Markets” that facilitate copyright infringement. This overview is put together with help from copyright holders and aims to motivate the targets, foreign authoritie...

LaLiga’s escalation of its anti-piracy enforcement measures began back in February with unprecedented blocking of Cloudflare IP addresses used by pirate sites, affecting large numbers of innocent websites using them too. After a brief pause between...

Cultivating community Logos is a movement devoted to reimagining how people connect and collaborate. Bringing this vision to life relies on the energy of a committed, creative community. If our values speak to you, we welcome your talents and ideas....

Last year, the video rental and streaming company Redbox shut down its service and filed for bankruptcy. The service, owned by Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment (now CSS Entertainment), was running hundreds of millions in losses per year and...

Most countries have an underlying piracy problem and there’s no shortage of rightsholders prepared to remind governments that work still needs to be done. The prospect of one day being removed from the USTR’s piracy and counterfeiting Watch List ma...

Dear Friend of Press Freedom, After over 100 days in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody, Mario Guevara was deported today. Read on for more about this and other press freedom abuses, and take a minute to tell your lawmakers to stand up...

For those interested in how policy takes shape under pressure from a constantly adapting piracy landscape, submissions to the USTR for its annual review of ‘notorious markets’ often carry clues on the performance of current strategies. Beyond the w...

The arrest of Alexa Wilkinson on felony hate crime charges for photographing vandalism at the New York Times building has prompted hairsplitting about whether they’re a journalist. The New York Times explained that Wilkinson’s “lawyers described them...