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Supreme Court evenly split in Costco v. Omega

  • Foley Hoag LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 17 2010

On December 13, 2010, after much anticipation in the case of Costco Wholesale Corporation v. Omega, S.A., No. 08-1423, it was announced that the eight Justices of the high court that considered the merits were evenly split, four to four

Ninth Circuit imposes DMCA liability, even in the absence of copyright infringement

  • Foley Hoag LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 10 2011

The Ninth Circuit's liability determination in MDY Industries v. Blizzard rested not on copyright infringement, but on a violation of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) provisions regarding circumvention of access controls

Update: Blizzard owns your software

  • Foley Hoag LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 10 2011

As expected, the Ninth Circuit has declared link that Blizzard's World of Warcraft (WoW) software licensees are just that -- licensees, and not owners -- because the WoW Terms of Use sufficiently restrict the transfer and use of the WoW software

The political parody problem

  • Foley Hoag LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 2 2010

In a bid to win the hearts and minds of voters, lately political candidates have touted, among other things, their musical predilections

Dollar bin divers rejoice! First sale doctrine applies to promo CDs

  • Foley Hoag LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 21 2011

Most of you serious music fans have at least one

Is it getting hot in here? Perfect10.com takes on chilling effects

  • Foley Hoag LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 24 2011

In what must be one of the nation's longest-lived Internet copyright wars, Perfect10, Inc. recently opened up a new front, asserting that online publication of its Digital Millenium Copyright Act takedown notices is a copyright violation

RIAA not keen on hearing the .music

  • Foley Hoag LLP
  • -
  • Global, USA
  • -
  • January 31 2011

While brand owners have taken issue with the vast trademark implications of ICANN's proposed (and at this point, likely) expansion of the domain name space to add countless new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) to the Internet, one organization has raised the specter of increased copyright infringement pursuant to domain name expansion

The DMCA: less protection than meets the eye against circumvention of technological measures to prevent access to software

  • Foley Hoag LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 16 2010

The anti-circumvention provision of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. 1201, continues to challenge courts in the context of computer software

Autodesk owns your software

  • Foley Hoag LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 23 2010

Autodesk owns your software if you (think you) own a copy of AutoCAD, that is

Too little too late: court rejects confirmatory copyright assignment due to lack of evidence of prior transfer

  • Foley Hoag LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 26 2011

A recent case in the Third Circuit, Barefoot Architect Inc. v. Bunge, Case Nos. 09-4495, 09-4600, (3d. Cir. January 14, 2011) has provided some interesting practice pointers with respect to copyright transfers

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