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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
  • -
  • 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
  • -
  • 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

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

Caveat for copyright holders: don’t sit on your claims

  • Fredrikson & Byron PA
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 24 2012

Copyright owners face many challenges in this digital age, not the least of which is the ease with which creative works like music and movies are illegally distributed over the internet

Swarming does not create jurisdiction

  • Holland & Knight LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 16 2012

Judge Manning dismissed plaintiff Millenium TGA's case against a Doe defendant identified by its computer IP address ("Doe") for lack of personal jurisdiction

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

Second-hand software ok in the EU

  • Scott & Scott LLP
  • -
  • European Union, USA
  • -
  • October 22 2012

A flurry of attention surrounded the recent legal saga of Timothy Vernor and his protracted fight against Autodesk to re-sell software via eBay

European Court of Justice sets criteria for balancing privacy rights and copyrights in the social networking context

  • Hunton & Williams LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 17 2012

On February 16, 2012, the European Court of Justice held in the SABAM vs. Netlog case (C-36010) that imposing an obligation on social networks to install a “general filtering system” to prevent all users from sharing copyrighted music is disproportionate to the extent that such filters may infringe on user privacy rights or block lawful communications

Supreme Court allows pro-Autodesk decision to remain intact in Ninth Circuit

  • Scott & Scott LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 11 2011

On October 3, 2011, the U.S. Supreme Court declined a request to grant certiorari in the case of Vernor v. Autodesk, in which the Ninth Circuit found that Autodesk could use copyright law to prevent an eBay user from re-selling its software products via the popular auction site

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