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Changes afoot for copyright law as the enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill receives Royal Assent

  • Lee & Thompson LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • May 24 2013

Last month the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill received Royal Assent, paving the way for an updated UK copyright regime intended to "promote

Using amateur athlete's avatar in video game could violate right of publicity, Third Circuit rules

  • Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP
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  • USA
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  • May 24 2013

Electronic Arts, Inc., makes video games, including the NCAA Football series. EA put an avatar of Ryan Hart, an ex-quarterback at Rutgers, in the

Up to six years in prison for link to contents protected by copyright: proposed Criminal Code reform Spanish

  • Abril Abogados
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  • Spain
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  • May 24 2013

Several major legislative reforms by the Spanish Ministry of Justice have been performed in the last months. Now it is the turn of the Criminal Code

Copyright infringement action against former employees fails to present issues of fact for jury

  • Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • May 22 2013

This action by a business against former employees contained a copyright claim and a plethora of state law claims relating to a software program for

Bill proposes new copyright licensing opportunities

  • Mannheimer Swartling Advokatbyrå AB
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  • Sweden
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  • May 22 2013

On 4th April 2013 the government passed a bill to Parliament containing a number of proposals that would make it easier for rights holders and users

Intellectual property weekly abstracts bulletin

  • Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
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  • Canada, USA
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  • May 22 2013

The Supreme Court has dismissed Eli Lilly of Canada Inc.’s leave on the issue, as summarized by the Court, as to whether the creation by the Federal

Supreme Court establishes international copyright exhaustion

  • Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP
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  • USA
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  • May 22 2013

The recent Supreme Court decision in Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons represents a significant victory for college students in their struggle with

Revoking an “implied” software license

  • Field Law LLP
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  • Canada
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  • May 21 2013

A license can be granted without any written agreement. It happens more often than you might think. For example, a license by verbal agreement and a

YouTube (part III) notice-and-take-down safe harbour under the DMCA

  • Bennett Jones LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • May 21 2013

A driving force for the development of the Internet was to provide certainty for Internet service organizations on the liability exposure they may

To Kill a Mockingbird: the inside legal story on Harper Lee’s dispute

  • King & Wood Mallesons
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  • USA
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  • May 21 2013

She's been awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom; she's won a Pulitzer Prize; her only novel has sold over 30 million copies and it's been made