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You are not your IP address

  • Fenwick & West LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • 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

Customers can resell copies of downloaded software; developers can try to stop them

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
  • -
  • European Union
  • -
  • July 4 2012

Yesterday, 3 July 2012, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruled in UsedSoft v. Oracle that online purchasers of software may resell copies of their downloads provided that they render the original download usable

Free software comes at a price: violation of open source license leads to enhanced monetary damages and forfeiture of products in Software Freedom Conservancy v. Best Buy et al.

  • Fish & Richardson PC
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 29 2010

On July 27, Judge Shira Scheindlin of the Southern District of New York issued a notable judgment in a case involving open source software

EU allows resale of downloaded software

  • Field Fisher Waterhouse
  • -
  • European Union
  • -
  • October 30 2012

In a judgment that has significant implications for the software and digital media industries in Europe, the European Court has ruled that, in principle, the owner of copyright in software cannot stop someone who has purchased and downloaded that software online from reselling it

Cloud computing provider faces potential seizure order in Ontario

  • Davis LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • March 7 2013

An interesting case is unfolding in Ontario where Megaupload Ltd. (a cloud storage provider) and Equinix Inc. are facing potential seizure orders for

Google’s legal challenges will have a ripple effect

  • Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP
  • -
  • France, USA
  • -
  • April 13 2011

Google’s influence is pervasive, and the outcomes of the many legal actions pending against the company will reverberate in many quarters

Decision in Football Dataco Ltd & others v Stan James Plc & others and Sportradar Gmbh & another

  • Bird & Bird
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • February 6 2013

Today the English Court of Appeal handed down its judgment in the above case. The case was brought by certain English and Scottish Football Leagues

The final score on database rights

  • CMS Cameron McKenna
  • -
  • European Union, United Kingdom
  • -
  • October 23 2012

The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has given a ruling on questions of database right infringement referred to it by the Court of Appeal

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

  • King & Wood Mallesons
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • 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

CIPPIC granted adjournment in the 2012 Voltage Pictures v Does P2P file sharing case

  • anticIPate Law
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • January 18 2013

Voltage Pictures' motion against Teksavvy was heard on January 14th, 2013, at Federal Court in Toronto. In the motion, Voltage had asked that

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