Funding to protect your intellectual property

Business entities, regardless of its size, commonly complain about their expenses and spends on intellectual property (IP) protection. As a result, they are reluctant to take appropriate actions against infringers which puts them at considerable risk in losing revenue. However, this is attributed to the lack of awareness of benefits from protecting IP and also likely due to absence of an aggressive marketing and business growth strategy.  Companies in the market for a while have had already realized (and possibly harvested) the benefits and some of them have an in-house IP Department.  This is only limited to MNCs and other major players.  These companies allocate funds for IP protection, research and development in the field of intellectual property and some...

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After 10 years Isohunt closes down a bit early, survived many Copyright battles!

Many of the file sharing and torrent websites have been losing their battles against Copyright owners.  One such was Megaupload, which was shut down a few months ago.  Isohunt.com has fought many battles and somehow pulled off for about 10.5 years. Isohunt has posted a notice on its website that it has closed a day earlier than required to avoid being a part of an attempt to archive it.  Isohunt was first sued by a movie production house in way back in 2006 and the case has reached a settlement with the MPAA and Isohunt agreed to both pay $110 million in damages and to close down in seven days. After a group named Archiveteam said they were preparing to make...

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