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Miller v. Facebook, Inc.: copyright infringement claim dismissed

  • Fenwick & West LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 7 2010

In March, the US District Court for the Northern District of California granted Facebook's motion to dismiss a copyright infringement claim brought by Daniel M Miller, the creator of an online video game called Boomshine

Advanced copyright issues on the internet

  • Fenwick & West LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • November 10 2010

During recent years, the Internet has become the basic foundational infrastructure for the global movement of data of all kinds

Knockoffs, the nemesis of the gaming world

  • Fenwick & West LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 23 2011

On March 22, Amazon launched the Appstore, bringing video games to the fingertips of thousands of Android users who, like their iPhone and iPad-toting friends, can now purchase and play video games anywhere, anytime

Could Lime Wire plaintiffs make the Oracle jury award look like small potatoes? Nope, says SDNY judge in statutory damages ruling

  • Fenwick & West LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 5 2011

Was the record-breaking jury verdict in Oracle Corp. v. SAP AG, 566 F. Supp. 2d 1010 (N.D. Cal. July 3, 2008) a modest damages award?

Viacom v. YouTubeGoogle: Second Circuit Reinstates Viacom’s Copyright Lawsuit, But Largely Affirms Pro-Online Service Provider Holdings

  • Fenwick & West LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 11 2012

The Second Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday set aside a 2010 federal district court decision that had granted summary judgment to YouTube and Google, based on the Digital Millennium Copyright Act’s safe harbor for storage at the direction of users

Advanced copyright issues on the internet

  • Fenwick & West LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 9 2012

During recent years, the Internet has become the basic foundational infrastructure for the global movement of data of all kinds

Electronic Arts v Zynga real dispute over virtual worlds

  • Fenwick & West LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 4 2012

Electronic Arts Inc.'s ("EA") recent lawsuit against Zynga Inc. ("Zynga") filed in the Northern District of California on August 3, 2012 is the latest in a string of disputes where a video game owner has asserted that an alleged copycat game has crossed the line between lawful copying and copyright infringement

First Circuit to address limits on copyright damages

  • Fenwick & West LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 14 2011

Joel Tenenbaum, an undergraduate student, was sued by five major record labels alleging copyright infringement for illegally downloading and distributing music owned by the labels, using a variety of music file sharing online services

SOPA and PIPA deconstructedthe meaning of key provisions of the controversial anti-piracy legislation

  • Fenwick & West LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 30 2012

Intellectual property rights holders have proposed aggressive legislation to pull the rug out from under Internet infringement by cutting off advertising and credit card payment services to domains allegedly used for “piracy” in effect broadening secondary liability for copyright infringement and by giving the government expansive powers to block Internet access to websites that are said to “facilitate” infringement

Associated Press v. Meltwater

  • Fenwick & West LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 29 2013

Meltwater News infringed copyrights of the Associated Press (AP), the U.S. District Court for the Southern District in Manhattan held last week, when