Copyright

  1. CopyrightDMCA

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

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  2. Copyright

    Willie Nelson meme on Facebook was not clearly fair use

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  3. AnonymityCopyright

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

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  4. Copyright

    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

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  5. AnonymityCopyright

    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 . . .

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  6. CopyrightUnfair Competition

    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 . . .

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  7. CopyrightDMCA

    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 . . .

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  8. CopyrightElectronic Discovery

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

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  9. CopyrightDMCA

    Adult content website owner wins on DMCA safe harbor copyright issue

    Plaintiff, an adult film producer, discovered on defendant's user-upload website, Motherless.com, 33 clips from movies plaintiff had created and for which it held the copyright. . . .

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  10. AnonymityCopyright

    Court allows Microsoft to unmask unknown Comcast users accused of infringement

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