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Trademark claims against virtual world strip club denied on 1st Amendment grounds

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
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USA
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January 20 2009

A court has ruled that incorporating into a video game a virtual strip club with a similar look and feel to the real thing has artistic relevance and that similarities between the real and virtual strip clubs were not explicitly misleading

FCC adopts new DTV consumer education and reporting requirements

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
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USA
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March 10 2008

On March 3, the FCC released a Report and Order outlining new requirements for the education of consumers regarding the February 17, 2009 transition to digital television service

Court extends publishers’ rights to freelance works to CD-ROMs of back issues, unless

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
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USA
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August 4 2008

In a significant victory for publishers in their long-running battle with freelancers, a federal appeals court in Atlanta recently ruled that magazine publishers do not have to compensate the individual copyright holders of freelanced articles and photographs when the magazines are reproduced on CD-ROM for commercial sale, unless contracts between the publisher and the freelancer provide to the contrary

P2P file-sharing website ordered to pay movie studios $110 million in damages

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
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USA
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June 10 2008

As a sanction for electronic discovery violations, the U.S. District Court in the Central District of California ordered Valence Media LLC, the parent company of TorrentSpy.com, to pay $110,997,000 in damages to six motion picture studios for secondary liability for copyright infringement

Eighth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirms dismissal of class-action complaint filed against Time Warner Cable for overcharging customers

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
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USA
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April 16 2009

A Minnesota resident recently filed a putative class action lawsuit against Time Warner Cable, Inc. (“Time Warner”), alleging that Time Warner overcharged its customers for cable television services

Automated program for playing virtual world game deemed copyright infringement

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
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USA
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August 14 2008

In July 2008, a U.S. District Court in Arizona found on summary judgment that the use of an automated program to play a virtual world game constituted copyright infringement

Court rules copyright owners must consider fair use before DMCA takedown notice

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
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USA
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September 3 2008

In Lenz v. Universal Music Corp et al. (Case 5:07-cv-03783 JF) a California District Court held that in order to issue a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”) takedown notice in good faith, a copyright holder must evaluate whether the use at issue qualifies as “fair use” under copyright law

Google saved again by DMCA - im"Perfect" notices do not establish actual notice

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
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USA
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August 5 2010

A federal court dismissed on summary judgment most of the copyright infringement claims against Google, ruling, in part, that Plaintiff's notices were not compliant with the requirements of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act ("DMCA"

EA edges out a victory

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
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USA
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October 19 2010

EA has defeated Edge Games' attempt to broadly assert rights in the word "EDGE" in connection with video games

Blizzard wins big against unauthorized secondary market provider

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
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USA
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August 16 2010

A California Court ruled last week in favor of Blizzard, finding that Scapegaming (a.k.a. Alyson Reeves) ran an unauthorized secondary market that handled microtransactions in violation of the World of Warcraft terms of service

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