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Southern District of New York holds copyright first sale doctrine does not apply to digital music files; resale of digital music through transmit-and-delete process

  • Ropes & Gray LLP
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  • USA
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  • April 9 2013

In Capital Records, LLC v. ReDigi Inc., 12 Civ. 95, (Mar. 30, 2013) ("Capital Records v. ReDigi") Judge Sullivan of the Southern District of New York

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Second Circuit finds first sale doctrine does not apply to digital copies even when original file is deleted after transfer

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
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  • USA
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  • April 4 2013

In a decision sure to be significant to the cloud computing and digital content industries, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New

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Resale of digital music files constitutes copyright infringement

  • Holding Redlich
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  • Australia, USA
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  • April 19 2013

On 30 March 2013, a New York federal court ruled that the resale of digital music files on a web-based service owned and operated by ReDigi Inc

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Selling second hand music: not music to record companies’ ears

  • King & Wood Mallesons
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  • USA
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  • October 26 2012

Second hand book stores, preloved clothing stores, and markets for old records there are no laws preventing these shop owners from selling used items to consumers, so how about a second hand store for digital music and movie files?

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The Aereo and ReDigi decisions: courts continue to wrestle with the application of copyright law to the redistribution of digital content

  • Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
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  • USA
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  • April 9 2013

A series of recent decisions in the Second and Ninth Circuitsincluding Viacom v. YouTube and UMG v. Veoh (both dealing with the distribution

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No first-sale doctrine for digital music files

  • Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP
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  • USA
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  • April 8 2013

Capitol Records, LLC v. ReDigi, Inc., No. 12 CIV. 95 RJS, 2013 WL 1286134 (S.D.N.Y. Mar. 30, 2013) The Southern District of New York recently held

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Can you legally re-sell your digital music files?

  • Duane Morris LLP
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  • USA
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  • January 22 2013

Can you legally resell your second-hand digital files? That's an unusual question not yet directly answered by the courts. U.S. copyright law's first

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You say you want a revolution: RIAA does not agree that ReDigi’s “legally downloaded digital music” marketplace qualifies for first sale protection

  • Pattishall McAuliffe Newbury Hilliard & Geraldson LLP
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  • USA
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  • November 16 2011

Two potentially revolutionary “disruptive technologies” were back in the news this week.

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A blow to digital music resellers

  • Faegre Baker Daniels
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  • USA
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  • April 10 2013

You can sell used books on Half.com and used furniture on Craigslistbut used MP3s? Not so fast. In Capitol Records, LLC v. ReDigi, Inc., Judge

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Recording Industry vs. ReDigi -- is site facilitating re-selling of "pre-owned" MP3s a contributory copyright infringer or protected under “first sale doctrine”?

  • Locke Lord LLP
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  • USA
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  • December 13 2011

Want to re-sell all those old MP3 files of songs you downloaded back in the day but no longer want?

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Google RIP: what inactive account manager means for your will

  • Pitmans LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • April 16 2013

Google Inactive Account Manager is a new feature which allows account holders to donate their digital assets to a nominated beneficiary, with

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Non-commercial use of trademark "DigiD" by Dutch government does not infringe dutch trade name rights in "Digi-D"

  • Hogan Lovells
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  • Netherlands
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  • January 20 2011

The District Court of The Hague rendered a decision in the summary proceeding DigiD v. Digi-D.

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Usedsoft v Oracle: an intelligible guide for non-IP-lawyers

  • Collyer Bristow LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • November 27 2012

The most significant IPIT case since our last edition of IP Matters isUsedSoft GmbH v Oracle International.

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Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. and the ghost of Quality King

  • Porter Wright Morris & Arthur LLP
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  • USA
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  • April 30 2013

Under a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling, publishers of books and magazines who print and sell their publications in other countries through

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Licence to sell Part 2

  • Pitmans LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • September 11 2012

In our last update we discussed the issues surrounding re-selling digital licences and the effect that this will have on both software suppliers and licensees.

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Technological designs create legal significance Part I

  • Steptoe & Johnson LLP
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  • USA
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  • April 25 2013

Recently, the Second Circuit handed down its much-anticipated decision in WNET v. Aereo, Inc., No. 12-2786, 2013 WL 1285591 (2d Cir. Apr. 2, 2013)

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