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Federal Court of Appeal renders decision on satellite radio judicial review applications

McCarthy Tétrault LLP
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Canada
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February 24 2011

The Federal Court of Appeal dismissed two judicial review applications of the Copyright Board's 2009 decision on satellite radio

Sony triumphs in copyright battle over God of War

McCarthy Tétrault LLP
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Canada, USA
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May 13 2010

In Bissoon-Dath v. Sony Computer Entertainment America, Inc., the US District Court for the Northern District of California granted summary judgment in favour of Sony in a copyright dispute over the popular God of War video game

Court issues key rulings in copyright infringement case over open source software

McCarthy Tétrault LLP
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USA
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February 11 2010

In the latest instalment in the Jacobsen v. Katzer saga, the District Court for the Northern District of California found that open source files for a model train software application were eligible for copyright protection

Court finds Fung and Isohunt liable for inducing copyright infringement

McCarthy Tétrault LLP
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Canada, USA
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February 11 2010

A California District Court recently granted members of the Motion Pictures Association of America summary judgment in a copyright infringement action against Gary Fung and four websites operated by him, including Isohunt, one of Canada's largest BitTorrent sites

Psystar found liable for infringing Apple’s copyright in the Mac OS X operating system

McCarthy Tétrault LLP
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USA
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February 11 2010

In Apple Inc. v. Psystar, a California District Court granted Apple’s motion for summary judgment for copyright infringement against Mac clone manufacturer Psystar, finding that Psystar had violated Apple’s reproduction right, distribution right and right to create a derivative work in its Mac OS X operating system

US court rejects file-sharer’s fair use defence

McCarthy Tétrault LLP
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USA
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October 31 2009

In Capital Records v. Tennenbaum, the US District Court for Massachusetts rejected the defendant file-sharer’s defence that his sharing of musical files over a peer-to-peer (P2P) network was a “fair use” that should insulate him from liability under the US Copyright Act

No safe harbour for the Pirate Bay operators fined and sentenced for aiding and abetting copyright infringement

McCarthy Tétrault LLP
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Sweden
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July 28 2009

In what is being heralded as a victory for copyright holders, a Swedish district court has found four operators of the file-sharing service The Pirate Bay guilty of aiding and abetting copyright infringement, fined them US$3.6 million, and sentenced each to a year in prison

Microsoft wins substantial damages award for unauthorized distribution of its software

McCarthy Tétrault LLP
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Canada
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July 28 2009

A federal court has granted Microsoft Corporation default judgment against two PC Village businesses and two individuals associated with the businesses in an action for copyright and trade-mark infringement

Silence and inaction gave search engines an implied licence to display a cached copy of author’s works

McCarthy Tétrault LLP
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USA
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April 30 2009

In Parker v. Yahoo! Inc., a US District Court dismissed in part an author’s copyright infringement lawsuit against Microsoft and Yahoo! for making a "cached" copy of his works available in their search results, because he had not taken steps to prevent the caching or have the content removed

Google settles Book Search Case with authors and publishers

McCarthy Tétrault LLP
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USA
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February 12 2009

Google has entered into an agreement with the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers to settle two lawsuits over Google's Book Search project