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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 fair use defense for online post of 21-page book excerpt

  • Proskauer Rose LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • 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
  • -
  • 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

Implied license, fair use, held meritorious defenses in online newspaper article copyright infringement action

  • Proskauer Rose LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • January 11 2011

The implied license and fair use defenses raised by the operator of an online forum are meritorious defenses that warrant reopening a default judgment for copyright infringement, a district court ruled