By Eleonora Rosati to The 1709 Blog on 4/17/2012 This blogger has just come back from New York, where she attended the 20th Fordham IP Conference, a symposium held every year, when leading academics, representatives of the judiciary and industry alike gather together at the Upper West Side premises of the Fordham Law School to [...]
No Comments. Continue Reading...By Leo Kelion @ BBC News 16 April 2012 Last updated at 00:31 Oracle’s claim that Google violated several of its patents and copyrights goes to trial in a San Francisco court on Monday. It is one of the biggest such tech lawsuits to date. Oracle is claiming about $1bn (£630m) in compensation. The Java [...]
No Comments. Continue Reading...By Charles Bieneman on April 8, 2012 In a high-profile case, the Second Circuit has defined contours of the safe harbor provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. § 512(c); those provisions relieve a service provider of liability for certain copyright infringements. Viacom Int’l, Inc. v. YouTube, Inc, Nos. 10-3270-cv and 10-3342-cv (2nd [...]
No Comments. Continue Reading...By Ben to The 1709 Blog on 4/06/2012 01:59:00 PM The National Copyright Administration in China has published a preliminary amendment draft to revise China’s copyright laws (Copyright Law of the People’s Republic of China (modified draft)) on its official website (on March 31st). The draft has been posted to “collect public opinion and constructive [...]
No Comments. Continue Reading...Summary: Two appellate cases involving Google adwords and keywords ads have been handed down in the U.S. and Australia. The full text of the two judgment can be found here: Australian Competition and Consumer Commission v Google Inc [2012] FCAFC 49 (3 April 2012) and Rosetta Stone Ltd v. Google. Australia court finds Google hosted [...]
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