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WTO authorizes IP piracy by Antigua

  • Steptoe & Johnson LLP
  • -
  • Antigua, USA
  • -
  • February 14 2013

In the old days, governments could issue "letters of marque" authorizing privateers to capture enemy vessels and keep some of the booty. (Heck, the U

Librarian of Congress publishes new list of DMCA exemptions

  • Steptoe & Johnson LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • November 10 2012

The Librarian of Congress has published the fifth triennial set of rules on exemptions from the “anticircumvention provision” of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act

Court doesn’t like the Flava of video infringement claim

  • Steptoe & Johnson LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 1 2012

The Seventh Circuit has ruled, in Flava Works, Inc. v. Gunter, that a website did not infringe copyright by embedding copyright-infringing videos from third-party websites

Are German shepherds more obedient than French poodles?

  • Steptoe & Johnson LLP
  • -
  • France, Germany
  • -
  • August 25 2012

Perhaps

Online video streaming sites subject to VPPA

  • Steptoe & Johnson LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 25 2012

The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California has determined that the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) can be applied to companies that stream video on the Internet

Ninth Circuit keeps website safe inside the DMCA safe harbor

  • Steptoe & Johnson LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 14 2012

The Ninth Circuit last month upheld a district court’s summary judgment in favor of Veoh Networks, a website that hosts user-uploaded video content

European High Court rules that ISPs do not have to monitor user traffic for illegal downloads

  • Steptoe & Johnson LLP
  • -
  • European Union
  • -
  • December 3 2011

Internet service providers cannot be required to install filtering systems designed to monitor traffic on their networks for copyright-infringing material, according to a decision last month by Europe’s highest court

A second tussle in Brussels over Google news

  • Steptoe & Johnson LLP
  • -
  • Belgium
  • -
  • May 21 2011

The Belgian Court of Appeal has upheld a lower court’s 2007 ruling in Copiepresse v. Google, affirming that Google’s practice of posting snippets of newspaper articles (along with links to the newspapers’ websites) constituted copyright infringement

French court narrows the scope of website immunity

  • Steptoe & Johnson LLP
  • -
  • France
  • -
  • April 16 2011

In four recently published decisions (L'affaire Clearstream, Le génocide arménien, Les dissimulateurs, and Mondovino), the Paris Court of Appeals has ruled in favor of copyright holders who sued Google's video search site for linking to unauthorized copies of their films

New Yorkers hurt all over

  • Steptoe & Johnson LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 2 2011

at least when it comes to online copyright infringement