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You are not your IP address

  • Fenwick & West LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 27 2012

A district court judge ruled recently that an IP address, on its own, is not enough to determine a person's identity, throwing a wrench in the copyright infringement claims brought by pornographic film producers in four related mass BitTorrent lawsuits, which involved more than 80 John Doe defendants accused of illegally downloading different pornographic films

Free software comes at a price: violation of open source license leads to enhanced monetary damages and forfeiture of products in Software Freedom Conservancy v. Best Buy et al.

  • Fish & Richardson PC
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  • USA
  • -
  • July 29 2010

On July 27, Judge Shira Scheindlin of the Southern District of New York issued a notable judgment in a case involving open source software

Google’s legal challenges will have a ripple effect

  • Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP
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  • France, USA
  • -
  • April 13 2011

Google’s influence is pervasive, and the outcomes of the many legal actions pending against the company will reverberate in many quarters

Criminal liability for cloud storage service providers?

  • Fenwick & West LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 5 2012

On January 18, 2012, Megaupload.com was ostensibly a successful cloud storage service, with a large public presence and numerous celebrity endorsements, claiming 180 million registered users and 4 percent of total internet traffic

De-mining the DMCA’s safe harbor: UMG v Veoh

  • King & Wood Mallesons
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 4 2013

As well as being home to the world's largest film and music companies, the US is the intellectual, entrepreneurial and technical leader of the

Web users with unsecured wireless connections fingered in copyright lawsuit

  • Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 10 2012

In a development that could impact providers of free Wi-Fi services and broadband subscribers who rely on wireless routers, Liberty Media Holdings LLC has asked a Massachusetts federal court to rule that broadband subscribers with wireless routers may be held liable for copyright violations when other persons illegally download copyrighted content through unsecured wireless network connections

Legislative outlook

  • Arent Fox LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 31 2011

On October 26, 2011, a bipartisan group of Congressmen led by Lamar Smith, R-Tex., Chair of the House Judiciary Committee, introduced HR 3261, the Stop Online Piracy Act, which tightens the prohibition in the Copyright Act against the unlicensed streaming of copyrighted works, such as motion pictures, music, and software applications

What is a “hosting” violation really worth?

  • Scott & Scott LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 13 2012

Using third-party software as components of business solutions delivered to customers over the Internet can be risky

Think twice before selling used copies of software

  • Arnall Golden Gregory LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • September 13 2010

Roughly a year ago, I wrote about a couple of federal district court decisions

The CDA, DMCA, UGC, COPPA: alphabet soup and online legal basics

  • Wiley Rein LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 27 2011

Traditional radio, television and newspaper outlets are now using multiple platforms to disseminate information to the public, to further stories, and to connect with listeners, viewers and readers

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