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US court finds LimeWire liable for inducing copyright infringement
- McCarthy Tétrault LLP
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- USA
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- August 11 2010
The recording industry recently won a major victory in its copyright piracy lawsuit against LimeWire, one of the most popular remaining peer-to-peer (P2P) music-file-sharing services in the US
Silence and inaction gave search engines an implied licence to display a cached copy of author’s works
- McCarthy Tétrault LLP
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- USA
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- April 30 2009
In Parker v. Yahoo! Inc., a US District Court dismissed in part an author’s copyright infringement lawsuit against Microsoft and Yahoo! for making a "cached" copy of his works available in their search results, because he had not taken steps to prevent the caching or have the content removed
Google settles Book Search Case with authors and publishers
- McCarthy Tétrault LLP
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- USA
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- February 12 2009
Google has entered into an agreement with the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers to settle two lawsuits over Google's Book Search project
US court rejects file-sharer’s fair use defence
- McCarthy Tétrault LLP
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- USA
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- October 31 2009
In Capital Records v. Tennenbaum, the US District Court for Massachusetts rejected the defendant file-sharer’s defence that his sharing of musical files over a peer-to-peer (P2P) network was a “fair use” that should insulate him from liability under the US Copyright Act
Court issues key rulings in copyright infringement case over open source software
- McCarthy Tétrault LLP
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- USA
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- February 11 2010
In the latest instalment in the Jacobsen v. Katzer saga, the District Court for the Northern District of California found that open source files for a model train software application were eligible for copyright protection
Court finds Fung and Isohunt liable for inducing copyright infringement
- McCarthy Tétrault LLP
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- Canada, USA
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- February 11 2010
A California District Court recently granted members of the Motion Pictures Association of America summary judgment in a copyright infringement action against Gary Fung and four websites operated by him, including Isohunt, one of Canada's largest BitTorrent sites
Psystar found liable for infringing Apple’s copyright in the Mac OS X operating system
- McCarthy Tétrault LLP
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- USA
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- February 11 2010
In Apple Inc. v. Psystar, a California District Court granted Apple’s motion for summary judgment for copyright infringement against Mac clone manufacturer Psystar, finding that Psystar had violated Apple’s reproduction right, distribution right and right to create a derivative work in its Mac OS X operating system
Sony triumphs in copyright battle over God of War
- McCarthy Tétrault LLP
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- Canada, USA
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- May 13 2010
In Bissoon-Dath v. Sony Computer Entertainment America, Inc., the US District Court for the Northern District of California granted summary judgment in favour of Sony in a copyright dispute over the popular God of War video game
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