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

  • King & Wood Mallesons
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  • USA
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  • 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

Some new (and some rejected) exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act

  • Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
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  • USA
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  • November 20 2012

The U.S. Copyright Office issued its exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 ("DMCA") on October 26

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

  • Fredrikson & Byron PA
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  • USA
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  • 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

Second-hand software ok in the EU

  • Scott & Scott LLP
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  • European Union, USA
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  • 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

You are not your IP address

  • Fenwick & West LLP
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  • USA
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  • 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

What is a “hosting” violation really worth?

  • Scott & Scott LLP
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  • USA
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  • August 13 2012

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

Criminal liability for cloud storage service providers?

  • Fenwick & West LLP
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  • USA
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  • 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

The burden of online misdeeds: who should be responsible?

  • Fenwick & West LLP
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  • USA
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  • March 19 2012

On Jan. 18, the Internet had its first general strike

Swarming does not create jurisdiction

  • Holland & Knight LLP
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  • USA
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  • 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

Megaupload shutdown signals risks in the cloud

  • Buddle Findlay
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  • New Zealand, USA
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  • February 20 2012

The file storage and viewing websites run by Megaupload were shut down by the US Justice Department in January 2012 alleging copyright infringement