Installing earlier software version that lacked license check feature triggered DMCA anticircumvention liability

Failure to pay software license fees was breach of contract, not copyright infringement

Company cannot avoid DMCA liability for false CMI by claiming it used its own name

Willie Nelson meme on Facebook was not clearly fair use

Bittorrent copyright plaintiff got much gentler treatment in New York federal court

Video game elements did not infringe copyright

Cat images in defendant's video game were not similar enough to cat images in plaintiff's video game for there to be copyright infringement

Court labels copyright plaintiff as a troll and shuts down efforts to ID anonymous infringer

A federal judge held that a copyright holder plaintiff could not get early discovery to seek the identity of the account holder associated with a . . .

Web scraping case fails under Dastar

Claim against owner of website for scraping content failed, where plaintiff failed to allege improper removal of copyright management information, and where claim for passing . . .

Suit under DMCA for concealing copyright management information failed because plaintiff did not properly allege defendants’ intent

Plaintiff sued defendants under the provision of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) (17 U.S.C. § 1202(a)) that, among other things, prohibits a person from . . .

Court takes into consideration defendant’s privacy in BitTorrent copyright infringement case