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Will filming Times Square now require negotiating with hundreds of copyright owners?

  • King & Wood Mallesons
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  • Australia, USA
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  • May 3 2013

On 8 April 2013, The Motion Picture Association of America, along with the International Documentary Association and Film Independent, filed an

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

How much do you know about copyright in quotes? Test your muscle against the Yale Law School top ten

  • King & Wood Mallesons
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  • Australia, USA
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  • December 13 2012

Now that you've considered how and whether you can protect quotes via copyright, it's time to take your skills to the next level

Nietzsche has Kanye West's back in rap battle -- US copyright case tests originality of song lyrics

  • Hunt & Hunt
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  • Australia, USA
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  • November 23 2012

A case of déjà vu for American musician, film director and fashion designer Kanye West who has found himself the subject of another copyright infringement claim, this time by unsigned rapper Vincent Peters, professionally known as Vince P

Def Leppard fire silver bullet in copyright stand-off

  • King & Wood Mallesons
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  • Australia, USA
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  • August 15 2012

Def Leppard and their record company, Universal, have once again proved that musicians and music labels go together like oil and water

Intermediary liability global

  • Baker & McKenzie
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  • Australia, India, Netherlands, Spain, United Kingdom, USA
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  • January 25 2012

They have also been a number of overseas developments that are of interest from an Australian perspective given the ongoing debate surrounding the issue

Point Break live! Heading for a wipe out!

  • King & Wood Mallesons
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  • Australia, USA
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  • May 27 2011

In the hit 1991 film Point Break the FBI sends young agent Johnny Utah (Keanu Reeves) undercover at the beach to mix with surfers (including Bohdi, Patrick Swayze) that they believe could be members of a gang that robs banks wearing masks of ex-US presidents

The changing face of artist's resale royalties

  • Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP
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  • Australia, USA
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  • December 7 2010

In February 2009, a bill was introduced in the New York State Assembly that would require the seller to pay 5 of the sale price to the artist every time a work of art by a living artist is sold in New York for $1,000 or more

YouTube finds safe harbour in Viacom copyright case

  • Clayton Utz
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  • Australia, USA
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  • July 7 2010

Service providers in the US will be liable if they actually know of specific copyright infringements, but not if they only are generally aware of their users' infringing activity