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Novell prevails in long-running dispute over ownership of UNIX copyrights - and open source software moves on
- Proskauer Rose LLP
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- USA
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- August 31 2011
The dispute between The SCO Group and Novell, Inc. over the ownership of copyrights in the code to certain versions of the UNIX operating system, which started eight years ago, appears to have been handed its retirement papers by the Tenth Circuit
Access to licensed software by attorneys acting for benefit of licensee breached license agreement
- Proskauer Rose LLP
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- USA
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- January 11 2011
Use of licensed software by attorneys acting for the benefit of a licensee of the software breached the terms of the license agreement, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled
Register of copyrights says "who knows?" on ownership of computer program copies
- Proskauer Rose LLP
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- USA
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- August 5 2010
Who owns the firmware on a smartphone, the device manufacturer or the purchaser?
Can I ask you a personal question? What is your computer's IP address?
- Proskauer Rose LLP
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- Switzerland
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- September 22 2010
In a September 8, 2010 opinion, Switzerland's highest court announced that Internet Protocol (IP) addresses are personal information protected by the country's data protection laws
Ninth Circuit rules on license versus sale of software
- Proskauer Rose LLP
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- USA
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- September 24 2010
The Register of Copyrights may have concluded that precedents defining the difference between a license and a sale of software are conflicting, but a panel of the Ninth Circuit had no difficulty in resolving the issue in its recent opinion Vernor v. Autodesk, Inc., 2010 U.S. App. LEXIS (9th Cir. Sept. 10, 2010
Ninth Circuit says DMCA anticircumvention provision gives new, access-prevention right to copyright owners - MDY v. Blizzard, part II
- Proskauer Rose LLP
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- USA
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- January 4 2011
As we related in Part I of this post, Blizzard Entertainment, distributor of the World of Warcraft game software and the operator of the servers that enable online game play, sought to block the use of automated game playing software by deploying anti-bot software, WoW Warden
No CFAA violation where software licensor with administrative password gave server access to licensor's competitor
- Proskauer Rose LLP
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- USA
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- September 30 2010
Neither a software licensee, nor a competitor of the software licensor, violated the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act when the competitor accessed a server containing the licensor's proprietary files via a password supplied by the licensee who had been issued an administrative password by the licensor, a district court ruled
Oracle v. Google judge writes the book on software programming copyright for now, anyway
- Proskauer Rose LLP
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- USA
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- June 6 2012
The trial in the dispute between Oracle and Google over the use of Java technology in the Android operating system is over, and the greatly anticipated ruling on copyright in the Java Application Programming Interface (API) has issued
No fair use defense for online post of 21-page book excerpt
- Proskauer Rose LLP
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- USA
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- January 11 2011
The blog posting of images of 21 pages of a soon-to-be-published book is not protected by the fair use doctrine and thus may be temporarily enjoined, a district court ruled
Music downloads and ringtones are licensed, not sold, under royalty agreement
- Proskauer Rose LLP
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- USA
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- January 11 2011
Sales of music by digital downloads and by ringtones sold through carriers must be accounted to an artist under a royalty contract with a recording company as licenses rather than sales of the music, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled
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