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U.S. Court of Appeals ruling protects ISPs from copyright infringement

  • Sullivan & Worcester LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 17 2013

Internet service providers faced with possible copyright infringement lawsuits are cheering a ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth

Illinois federal court limits discovery of IP address identification information from ISPs in John Doe actions: highlights continuing challenge of identifying anonymous posters of trade secrets and other intellectual property on internet

  • Seyfarth Shaw LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • April 27 2012

As highlighted in our recent webinar, The New Risk: Employee Theft Of Trade Secrets And Confidential Information In The Name Of Protected Whistleblowing, companies continue to struggle with anonymous whistleblowers in the Internet and social media age, including anonymous individuals who post trade secrets and other intellectual property on the Internet

Stored Communications Act and internet service providers

  • Winston & Strawn LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 28 2012

Working within the confines of the Stored Communications Act (“SCA”), plaintiffs have continued to seek information from Internet Service Providers (ISPs) from which they can identify individual end users associated with Internet Protocol (IP) addresses

Want to “unlock” that new mobile phone? The rules have changed.

  • Duane Morris LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 25 2013

It's a little-known fact that the Librarian of Congress has the power to determine if you can "unlock" your mobile phonePDA in order to change the

District court continues to prohibit the "reflashing" or "unlocking" of cellular devices

  • Fenwick & West LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • December 19 2012

The U.S. District Court, Southern District of Florida recently ruled that the unauthorized "unlocking" or "reflashing" of cellular devices, a process that

iPhone jailbreaking exempted from DMCA prohibitions

  • Porter Wright Morris & Arthur LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • July 30 2010

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) at 17 U.S.C. 1201(a) prohibits the circumvention of technological protection measures used by copyright owners to prevent copying

Copyright Office and Library of Congress allow “jailbreak” of iPhones

  • Manatt Phelps & Phillips LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 12 2010

The Library of Congress and Copyright Office gave the go-ahead to users of smartphones - including the iPhone - to engage in "jailbreaking" by installing third-party software and modifying the operating systems

Software company Hottrix has a few tricks up its sleeve in its copyright battle with Hershey

  • Arent Fox LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 21 2010

Got Milk?

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

  • Proskauer Rose LLP
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  • 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

Brand protection is an app-solute must

  • Haynes and Boone LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • May 9 2011

The ubiquity of mobile and Internet applications, or apps, is astounding