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Illegal streaming of pirate copies - what will come after kino.to?

  • Hogan Lovells
  • -
  • Germany
  • -
  • November 28 2011

The German Federal Minister of Justice, Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger, quotes Prof

European Court of Justice paves the way for sale of used software

  • Hogan Lovells
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  • European Union
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  • October 25 2012

The European Court of Justice allows the sale of used software also in cases where the initial purchase was made by way of Internet download, and thereby extends the application of the exhaustion doctrine to the act of copying the actual software

the effect of making software "open source" and its impact on the author's copyright of the underlying code

  • Hogan Lovells
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 14 2010

An open source program is one in which the author distributes the underlying source code along with an executable version of the software and license

"Game over" for used software?

  • Hogan Lovells
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  • Germany
  • -
  • January 20 2011

The resale of "used" software is a market with a potential value of billions of Euros worldwide

Ninth Circuit narrows applicability of the "first sale doctrine"

  • Hogan Lovells
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 14 2010

A recent decision issued by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (Ninth Circuit) strengthens copyright owners' ability to prevent the resale and further distribution of products subject to copyright protection through narrowing the applicability of the "first sale doctrine."

To use or not to use? Federal Court of Justice asks CJEU to evaluate the compatibility of a re-sale of used software licenses with copyright law

  • Hogan Lovells
  • -
  • European Union, Germany
  • -
  • April 14 2011

The question of whether or not the trade in used software licenses which are passed on to the buyer by way of online download is compatible with copyright law has long been controversially discussed by German courts and legal commentators

Copyright Developments in Europe - UK Hargreaves Review of IP

  • Hogan Lovells
  • -
  • European Union, United Kingdom
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  • July 19 2011

On 18 May 2011 Professor Hargreaves published his Review on Intellectual Property and Growth

Product makers and sellers beware: the use of unlawful software or hardware by a product manufacturer is now an act of unfair competition in Washington state

  • Hogan Lovells
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 21 2011

On 22 June 2011, it became an act of unfair competition in Washington state for product manufacturers whose products are offered for sale in Washington state to use "stolen or misappropriated IT" in their business operations

Court allows inspection of seized evidence of infringement at interim proceedings level

  • Hogan Lovells
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  • Netherlands
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  • October 25 2011

Obtaining evidence which is in the possession of a possible infringer used to be a difficult task for an IP owner in the Netherlands, but the IP owner's position has significantly improved in recent years

Global media and communications quarterly

  • Hogan Lovells
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  • Global
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  • May 8 2012

Readers of this Journal will be heartily sick of predictions of the “death of TV”