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An Ontario lawyer successfully moved for certification of a class action alleging that the Carswell database search and retrieval service known as "Li...
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The recording industry recently won a major victory in its copyright piracy lawsuit against LimeWire, one of the most popular remaining peer-to-peer (...
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... ALL THOSE PERSONS WHO ARE INFRINGING COPYRIGHT IN THE PLAINTIFFS' SOUND RECORDINGS. (Defendants).... industry are very concerned about infringement of copyright in their musical works through the us...
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A California District Court recently granted members of the Motion Pictures Association of America summary judgment in a copyright infringement action...
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Part of the reason is that people question whether the law that forbids sharing of such material online is morally justified. The fact that something is illegal doesn't mean that it's necessarily immoral. Around the world, young people are questioning the merit of the laws that forbid them to share material. They break copyright laws in part because they believe that these laws are unjust.
As a society, we need to think again about copyright laws. If I buy a book, and lend it to a friend, should I be charged because they haven't paid for the book themselves? No, because it is considered fair use. What if instead of having to walk over and lend the book, I allow my friend to make a copy of it to keep? This is now considered copyright infringement, although the consequences of both situat...
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In the latest instalment in the Jacobsen v. Katzer saga, the District Court for the Northern District of California found that open source files for a...
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It has been reported that game publisher Square Enix has filed suit against 15 unknown defendants, alleging copyright infringement over the game Deus ...
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This thesis puts forward the development prospect and concrete protections of the network copyright protection in the Internet era through the analysis of law. It figures that the variety of the network copyright has its own characteristics; the objection system on the Internet should be established to fix on the network copyright of a certain work; the range of the network works is different from that of the traditional works; the download, copying, printing, backing up, and paste of the network works should be also considered as the reasonable use under certain conditions; the network copyright, depending on different subjects, is applicable to different liability principles of infringement; the characteristics of the network copyright infringement case should be considered in the asp...
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The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has ruled that
an open source software licence was enforceable and can attract
liability for copyright...
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The producers then brought a motion in the Federal Court to compel five major Internet service providers to disclose the identities of 29 customers who were suspected of downloading thousands of songs onto their computers. The amendments also deal with copying television shows and movies, and posting copyrighted material on to the Internet, such as to site like YouTube or Facebook.Internet service providers would be exempt from liability for copyright infringement by their subscribers.