The Year in Copyright News •
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- 2 7 lettersZoe ______, member of Congress who received one of EFF’s 2014 Pioneer Awards, in part for her commitment to reforming the Digital Millennium Copyright Act
- 7 8 lettersFirst name of the fictional detective who—thanks to the Supreme Court's refusal to take up the case—is officially in the public domain
- 8 7 lettersFormer Panamanian dictator who used the “right of publicity” to attack the creators of Call of Duty for including him in their game
- 9 6 lettersCode-sharing website from which Popcorn Time torrent software was removed after an elaborate takedown request from the MPAA
- 10 5 lettersCompany that lost a major case before the Supreme Court over letting users rent dime-sized antennas to record television programming
- 13 6 lettersCindy Lee ______, actor who filed a copyright suit against Google over her five-second performance in the notorious “Innocence of Muslims” video
- 14 9 lettersBlog site, run by Automattic, that earned all the possible stars in EFF’s inaugural Who Has Your Back copyright and trademark report
- 17 4 lettersAccording to a dangerous decision by the Federal Circuit Court in Oracle v. Google, these Java specifications may be considered copyrightable
- 18 6 letters"Monkey _____" (see crossword background) was the center of a controversy when a photographer didn’t like that it was uploaded as a public domain image to Wikimedia Commons
- 19 6 lettersYou can now do this to your cellphone to bring it to a different carrier, thanks to a bill signed by President Obama in Augus
- 20 6 lettersNews and gossip site that Quentin Tarantino filed a copyright lawsuit against after it linked to a leaked script of his upcoming movie The Hateful Eight
- 21 5 lettersPhotography licensing company that made its images “free to embed” and announced it would dial back its copyright enforcement
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- 1 7 lettersPorn troll Malibu Media filed more than 1,600 copyright lawsuits in 2014, using this name in place of many of the yet-to-be-identified defendants
- 3 6 lettersAn appeals court ruled that you can’t copyright the shape of this tobacco paraphernalia
- 4 4 lettersOutgoing “IP Czar” Victoria Espinel has taken the top job at the Business Software Association. In political circles, this move is known as the revolving ___
- 5 6 lettersImage-hosting site owned by Yahoo that raised some hackles when it announced it would be selling prints of some users’ Creative Commons licensed prints
- 6 4 lettersCompany whose leaked emails revealed a secret anti-piracy meeting organized by the Department of Homeland Security
- 7 9 lettersComedy Central show Nathan For You tested the limits of fair use with its parody coffee shop, “Dumb ________”
- 11 6 lettersBrian Knappenberger released his Aaron Swartz documentary, “The Internet’s ______” under a Creative Commons License
- 12 9 lettersIn December, Swedish police raided this notoriously resilient torrent site, bringing it down worldwide
- 15 6 letters“Blurred Lines” singer Robin _____ went to court to ask for a declaratory judgment that his song does not infringe Marvin Gaye’s “Got To Give It Up”
- 16 6 lettersMaker of single-serving brewing pods that introduced something akin to DRM for coffee machines