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Videogame app developer breaks the rules on copyright infringement

  • Proskauer Rose LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 19 2012

Desiree Golden, a recent college graduate, wanted to aim at the big money that can be made in app development

Oracle v. Google judge writes the book on software programming copyright for now, anyway

  • Proskauer Rose LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 6 2012

The trial in the dispute between Oracle and Google over the use of Java technology in the Android operating system is over, and the greatly anticipated ruling on copyright in the Java Application Programming Interface (API) has issued

Novell prevails in long-running dispute over ownership of UNIX copyrights - and open source software moves on

  • Proskauer Rose LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 31 2011

The dispute between The SCO Group and Novell, Inc. over the ownership of copyrights in the code to certain versions of the UNIX operating system, which started eight years ago, appears to have been handed its retirement papers by the Tenth Circuit

Mobile carriers not secondarily liable for copyright infringement on multimedia messaging system

  • Proskauer Rose LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 5 2011

Mobile carriers are not liable for inducing infringement of copyright on their multimedia messaging system because they did not design the system with the object of promoting infringement, nor did they take any specific, affirmative steps to actively encourage or induce infringement by users of the system, a district court ruled in a copyright infringement action brought by a producer of multimedia messaging content

Assignment of copyright through terms of use: does e-sign make it ok? A tool for B2B sites dealing with unauthorized access to their content?

  • Proskauer Rose LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 20 2012

It is a common practice for Web site providers who accept submissions of user-generated content to include a license provision in their “Terms of Use” to obtain rights to use the content

European Court of Justice rules on copyright status of computer programming languages and functionality

  • Proskauer Rose LLP
  • -
  • European Union, USA
  • -
  • May 7 2012

In a jury room in San Francisco, jurors in Oracle, Inc. v. Google, Inc. have been toiling over complicated issues related to the copyrightability of the Java computer programming language, and they may well return a verdict before the ink is dry on this post

Download of copyrighted digital music file not a public performance under Copyright Act

  • Proskauer Rose LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 11 2011

Downloading a copyrighted digital music file does not constitute a public performance under the Copyright Act, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled

Logo, copyright notice and link on web site constitute copyright management information under DMCA

  • Proskauer Rose LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 30 2010

A photographer's name, logo and link on a Web site containing copyrighted photographs constitute copyright management information within the scope of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. 1202, a district court ruled

Company that distributed P2P software secondarily liable for massive infringement by users

  • Proskauer Rose LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 29 2010

A company that created and distributed a peer-to-peer file-sharing program that was used to distribute unauthorized copies of copyrighted music files on a "massive scale" is secondarily liable for acts of direct infringement on the part of the users of the program, a district court ruled

Under New York long-arm statute, copyright owner's location is situs of copyright harm from online infringement

  • Proskauer Rose LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 5 2011

Under N.Y.C.P.L.R. 302(a)(3)(ii), which provides for long-arm jurisdiction in cases involving out-of-state tortious acts that cause harm within the State, where unauthorized copies of copyrighted works are posted on Web sites outside New York, the situs of the resulting injury is the location of the copyright owner