With streaming video piracy booming, content companies and allies are continuing a legal assault against pirate services, and some see the number of allies growing to potentially include other parts of the legitimate video streaming ecosystem. The MPAA said it's seeing some preliminary signs the content company litigation strategy is bearing fruit. However, that legal strategy also faces unique challenges compared with past video piracy fights, experts say.
With streaming video piracy booming, content companies and allies are continuing a legal assault against pirate services, and some see the number of allies growing to potentially include other parts of the legitimate video streaming ecosystem. The MPAA said it's seeing some preliminary signs the content company litigation strategy is bearing fruit. However, that legal strategy also faces unique challenges compared with past video piracy fights, experts say.
With streaming video piracy booming, content companies and allies are continuing a legal assault against pirate services, and some see the number of allies growing to potentially include other parts of the legitimate video streaming ecosystem. The MPAA said it's seeing some preliminary signs the content company litigation strategy is bearing fruit. However, that legal strategy also faces unique challenges compared with past video piracy fights, experts say.
The following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the week of Jan. 8-14:
The National Marine Fisheries Service is proposing new regulations on the requirements and procedures of its planned Commerce Trusted Trader Program (CTTP) for high-risk seafood imports. Under the proposed rule, participating importers would have to maintain an “internal control system” of product tracing and verification and submit to annual third-party audits. In return, the importer would benefit from reduced entry filing requirements under the NMFS Seafood Import Monitoring Program, which took effect Jan. 1.
Vietnam filed a new challenge at the World Trade Organization on Dec. 12 of U.S. antidumping duties on frozen fish fillets from Vietnam, the WTO said in a press release. The country says the U.S. violated WTO rules in several recent and ongoing administrative reviews, including by requiring Vietnamese exporters to demonstrate their eligibility for separate rates or else assigning them to the Vietnam-wide entity. The request for consultations begins a 60-day period of discussions between the U.S. and Vietnam. If that period passes without agreement, Vietnam may request a dispute settlement panel to decide the case.
Canada recently filed a wide-ranging challenge at the World Trade Organization to U.S. procedures in antidumping and countervailing duty investigations. In a request for consultations publicly released Jan. 10, Canada said several aspects of U.S antidumping and countervailing duty laws and regulations violate WTO rules, including the retroactive cash deposit requirements after “critical circumstances” determinations.
The following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the week of Jan. 2-7:
The Supreme Court should strike down the FCC's 2015 net neutrality order, said internet entrepreneur Daniel Berninger, who continues to pursue an appeal despite the current commission's rollback of the telecom regulation in that order. Without high court intervention, FCC authority over the internet won't be constrained by Congress or the Constitution, with its chairman effectively "a king," Berninger said at a Hudson Institute event Monday. Most legal experts we have heard from said they doubt justices will grant Berninger's cert petition seeking review of lower court rulings upholding the order (in Berninger v. FCC, 17-498, here), given the recent FCC net neutrality reversal (see 1712140039 and 1801050031). Some say he has a chance.
The Supreme Court should strike down the FCC's 2015 net neutrality order, said internet entrepreneur Daniel Berninger, who continues to pursue an appeal despite the current commission's rollback of the telecom regulation in that order. Without high court intervention, FCC authority over the internet won't be constrained by Congress or the Constitution, with its chairman effectively "a king," Berninger said at a Hudson Institute event Monday. Most legal experts we have heard from said they doubt justices will grant Berninger's cert petition seeking review of lower court rulings upholding the order (in Berninger v. FCC, 17-498, here), given the recent FCC net neutrality reversal (see 1712140039 and 1801050031). Some say he has a chance.