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Dissecting Mr. Rockefeller: First Circuit rejects copyright infringement claim based on unoriginal elements of news photograph

  • Foley Hoag LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 17 2013

Clark Rockefeller, aka Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter, lived a double life until his conviction for child abduction in 2009. He was subsequently

Will the Supreme Court review copyright damages in music downloading case?

  • Foley Hoag LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 21 2012

Like Joel Tenenbaum, who has been discussed in prior entries in this blog, Jammie Thomas-Rasset has conducted a long-running battle with the recording industry over how much damages she should pay for her downloading activity

YouTube not required to remove “Innocence of Muslims” video in response to actress’s takedown notice

  • Foley Hoag LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 7 2012

Last week a California federal judge declined to enter a preliminary injunction sought by actress Cindy Lee Garcia, which would have required YouTube to remove the 14-minute anti-Islamic film “Innocence of Muslims” that has sparked deadly protests around the globe in recent months

Republican Standing Committee's disappearing copyright brief too "awesome" for publication

  • Foley Hoag LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • November 20 2012

Last Friday, the Republican Standing Committee (“RSC”) published a report by twenty-four year old staffer Derek Khanna, a former Mitt Romney aide and graduate of Georgetown Law School, entitled: “Three Myths about Copyright Law and Where to Start to Fix it.” In less than twenty four hours, the report disappeared from the internet

The year of downloading dangerously: federal court gives adult film copyright “trolls” the third degree

  • Foley Hoag LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • November 5 2012

About this time last year, we reported on a case which bore perhaps the least catchy name in the history of the Massachusetts Federal District Court: Liberty Media Holdings, LLC v. Swarm Sharing Hash File AE340D0560129AFEE8D78CE07F2394C7B5BC9C05,821 F.Supp.2d 444 (D. Mass. 2011

Publishers appeal Georgia State University copyright ruling

  • Foley Hoag LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 31 2012

We’ve previously written about the academic publishing industry’s lawsuit against Georgia State University (“GSU”) and its library system’s electronic reserve practices

Google settles long-running copyright dispute with book publishers

  • Foley Hoag LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 5 2012

Yesterday (October 4th) Google and the Association of American Publishers (AAP) announced that they have settled the litigation filed in 2005 by the AAP challenging the Google Books Library Project

If it's not copying, it's not copyright infringement: why the Seventh Circuit overturned an injunction against myVidster.Com

  • Foley Hoag LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 4 2012

This past week, myVidster.Com was hijacked by Dutch cyber-pirates, and the owners were really happy when it came back on line Friday

$675,000 jury verdict against music file-sharer upheld

  • Foley Hoag LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 28 2012

As previously discussed on this blog, last year the First Circuit held that the jury verdict for $675,000 in statutory damages against graduate student and file sharer Joel Tenenbaum should not have been reduced to $67,500 by District Court Judge Nancy Gertner on constitutional grounds

Political fair use part v: the dulcet tones of presidential copyright infringement

  • Foley Hoag LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 27 2012

Mitt Romney seems to attract copyright controversies like his bank account attracts interest

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