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Settlement Google news case

  • Venable LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 29 2007

A highly publicized case that has been going on for the last two years in which the large international service, Agence France-Presse, sued Google Inc. claiming Google, through Google News, infringed on its copyrights was settled last week

Irish file-sharing case sets legal precedent

  • Matheson
  • -
  • Ireland
  • -
  • January 29 2009

An action brought by four record companies (EMI Records (Ireland) Ltd; SONY BMG Music Entertainment (Ireland) Ltd; Universal Music (Ireland) Ltd and Warner Music (Ireland) Ltd) against Ireland's largest internet service provider, Eircom, in which they sought orders under the Copyright and Related Rights Act 2000 to restrain Eircom from infringing copyright in sound recordings that were owned by, or exclusively licensed to, the record companies by making available copies of those recordings to the public (through Eircom's internet service facilities) without their consent, has been settled

Viacom barred from seeking punitive damages in YouTube infringement case

  • Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 14 2008

Viacom was dealt a setback in its ongoing copyright infringement case against Google’s YouTube unit, as a federal district judge ruled against Viacom’s request to add a claim for punitive damages

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

  • McCarthy Tétrault LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • 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

Advocate General's opinion in the three French Google keyword references

  • Bird & Bird
  • -
  • European Union, France
  • -
  • September 23 2009

The Advocate General delivered his widely anticipated opinion today in three references to the European Court of Justice involving whether the AdWords system operated by Google amounted to trade mark infringement

Telecommunications firms litigate internet speed advertising claims

  • Baker & McKenzie
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • September 30 2009

The Ontario Superior Court of Justice has denied a request for an injunction by Bell Canada, the largest Canadian internet service provider, but has made important comments on the merits of an underlying action relating to comparative advertising of internet speed claims

Webcasting music services not “interactive” when users cannot directly control the songs they hear

  • McDermott Will & Emery
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 28 2009

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirmed a district court judgment that an internet radio service was not an “interactive service” within the meaning of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and hence was not liable for copyright infringement for failure to pay license fees

Frayne v. Chicago 2016, 2009 WL 65236 (N.D. Ill. Jan. 8, 2009)

  • Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 13 2009

The Northern District of Illinois dismissed plaintiff's two declaratory judgment claims relating to reverse domain name hijacking

Court holds "hot news" doctrine not preempted by Copyright Act in internet context; DMCA claim maintained for removal of author information

  • Wiley Rein LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 23 2009

A federal court in New York has ruled that "hot news" claims for misappropriation of breaking news content brought by the Associated Press (AP) against a news-related website, All Headline News Corp. (AHN) are not preempted by the Copyright Act

Court upholds ruling that online comments constitute defamation

  • Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • February 24 2009

In a recent case, the Ontario Court of Appeal considered whether the publication of a 'News Release' by a parent on the internet contained defamatory statements for which she could be held liable

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