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Circuit split brewing over public performance right

Fenwick & West LLP
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USA
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April 10 2013

On December 27, 2012, a federal judge for the Central District of California granted a preliminary injunction ordering the shutdown of AereoKiller, a

Associated Press v. Meltwater

Fenwick & West LLP
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USA
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March 29 2013

Meltwater News infringed copyrights of the Associated Press (AP), the U.S. District Court for the Southern District in Manhattan held last week, when

Electronic Arts v Zynga real dispute over virtual worlds

Fenwick & West LLP
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USA
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October 4 2012

Electronic Arts Inc.'s ("EA") recent lawsuit against Zynga Inc. ("Zynga") filed in the Northern District of California on August 3, 2012 is the latest in a string of disputes where a video game owner has asserted that an alleged copycat game has crossed the line between lawful copying and copyright infringement

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

Advanced copyright issues on the Internet

Fenwick & West LLP
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USA
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July 2 2012

During recent years, the Internet has become the basic foundational infrastructure for the global movement of data of all kinds

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

DMCA Safe Harbors de-coded: 17 U.S.C. Section 512 re-organized in more logical order

Fenwick & West LLP
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USA
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May 7 2012

Organizationally speaking, the Safe Harbors part of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), 17 U.S.C. 512, doesn’t make much sense

Viacom v. YouTubeGoogle: Second Circuit Reinstates Viacom’s Copyright Lawsuit, But Largely Affirms Pro-Online Service Provider Holdings

Fenwick & West LLP
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USA
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April 11 2012

The Second Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday set aside a 2010 federal district court decision that had granted summary judgment to YouTube and Google, based on the Digital Millennium Copyright Act’s safe harbor for storage at the direction of users