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Hopping mad: FoxDish dispute asks Ninth Circuit what is a permissible copy under Copyright Act
- Hogan Lovells
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- USA
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- January 7 2013
In March 2012, Dish Network (Dish) made its "PrimeTime Anytime" (PTAT) feature available to subscribers with a "Hopper" set-top box. Once activated by the
Appellate court finds that digital downloads are "licenses", not traditional sales, under music recording agreement
- Hogan Lovells
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- USA
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- February 28 2011
In the first appellate decision addressing royalties under a standard recording agreement, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on 3 September 2010 reversed a decision of the United States District Court for the Central District of California that addressed the question of whether digital music distribution is more properly characterized as a sale or as a license
U.S. court rejects settlement on Google book search
- Hogan Lovells
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- USA
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- April 14 2011
On 22 March 2011, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York denied its approval of a proposed settlement in the class action proceedings regarding Google’s digital library project
Very non-garden-variety case: landscaper artist’s "rights of integrity" not violated by city trimming his garden
- Hogan Lovells
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- USA
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- April 14 2011
Nothing is coming up roses for Chapman Kelley, the artist responsible for creating an acclaimed showpiece garden in Chicago’s Grant Park
Dead or alive: U.S. high court agrees to hear free speech challenge against foreign copyrights "restored" from the public domain by international treaty
- Hogan Lovells
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- USA
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- April 14 2011
The U.S. Supreme Court has decided to hear a constitutional challenge from orchestra conductors, educators, performers, publishers, archivists, and distributors, who use and rely on works that are in the public domain, against the restoration of U.S. copyright protection for certain foreign works as a result of international agreements entered into over 15 years ago
Inspiration, imitation or illegal misappropriation? Courts reject artists’ taking others’ photographs as source material for new works
- Hogan Lovells
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- USA
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- July 21 2011
In two decisions issued within the past few months one in New York and one in California artists engaged in “appropriation art” were held to have violated the U.S. Copyright Act by incorporating others’ copyrighted photographs into their own artworks
Beat it: federal court blocks discovery of cable and satellite subscription revenues in copyright infringement case against Fox News
- Hogan Lovells
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- USA
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- July 21 2011
Despite generally far-flung discovery in civil litigation in the U. S., courts will sometimes limit what information a plaintiff can see
Star Wars Stormtrooper helmets English floodgates open to cross-border IP litigation...?
- Hogan Lovells
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- United Kingdom, USA
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- October 25 2011
The UK's highest court of appeal, the Supreme Court, decided that Lucasfilm's UK copyright was not infringed by the manufacture and sale of replica Star Wars Stormtrooper helmets in the UK
South Park's parody of a viral video is fair use
- Hogan Lovells
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- USA
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- July 20 2012
Despite finding that the producers of the famous South Park animated television series took the "heart" of a famous Internet video, a United States Court of Appeals held that South Park’s parody was protected as a fair use and that the district court properly dismissed the plaintiff’s copyright claim without allowing the chance to take discovery
Evaluating copyright fair use continues to be complex
- Hogan Lovells
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- USA
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- October 25 2012
Many recent decisions have touched on the copyright fair use doctrine
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