Advanced Copyright Law on the Internet

(D) For educational purposes by college and university faculty, college and university students, and kindergarten through twelft ...

exemption did not apply to the defendant’s activities because the defendant’s “purchase and resale of the TracFone handsets was ...

defendant’s conduct “was for the purpose of reselling those Phones for a profit, and not ‘for the sole purpose of lawfully conne ...

maximum statutory damages award of $46,540,000 ($2500 per phone sold) and entered a permanent injunction against the defendants. ...

(iv) Bose v. Zavala In this case, the defendant sold Bose Lifestyle Media Centers in auctions on eBay. In his auctions, he offer ...

constituted circumvention in violation of Section 1201 and sought statutory damages. The court rejected this argument, citing au ...

issue preclusion. Accordingly, the plaintiff could not prove that the defendants violated the DMCA because where there is not en ...

Unlike the case of the prohibition of circumvention to gain unauthorized access to a work under Section 1201(a)(1), the prohibit ...

SCEA was therefore entitled to a preliminary injunction against sale of the device under Section 1203.^841 (ii) The DirecTV Case ...

software to execute on the Playstation. Second, software developers could use the devices to test their own games as a less expe ...

On a motion for a preliminary injunction, the court found the plaintiff likely to prevail on these claims. The court rejected th ...

(vi) Movida Communications, Inc. v. Haifa In this case, the court ruled that the defendant’s actions of tampering with or alteri ...

Blizzard argued that scan.dll and the resident software controlled access to copyrighted software, as required by Section 1201(a ...

up the individual visual images or recorded sounds within the game client software. However, the circumvention claims were valid ...

title,” whereas Section 1201(b) is directed to protecting “a right of a copyright owner.”^870 Noting that neither Section 1201(a ...

to grant exemptions to certain non-infringing behavior from Section 1201(a)(1) liability would be unnecessary if an infringement ...

‘circumvention’ element of a § 1201(a)2) claim, because Blizzard has demonstrated that it did not authorize MDY to circumvent Wa ...

The court was also not convinced that the addition of a bar code or other functional device on the coupon qualified it as a uniq ...

anti-circumvention provisions and the district court granted summary judgment to the plaintiffs on those claims.^892 On appeal, ...

communication between receivers and smartcards.^897 The court also found the defendant liable under Section 1201(b)(1) for traff ...