Advanced Copyright Law on the Internet

Secondary Liability of Investors (a) The Hummer Winblad/Bertelsmann Litigation For a discussion of this litigation, see Sectio ...

With respect to contributory liability, the Ninth Circuit agreed with the district court that the plaintiffs had not alleged suf ...

world who own infringed copyrighted works, who have or will register them with the U.S. Copyright Office as required, whose work ...

reproductions, public performances, public distributions, public displays, digital performances of sound recordings, and/or impo ...

example, if a site distributing pornographic material were to link to a religious site distributing religious material.^3036 In ...

The Shetland Times Case A recent case out of Scotland illustrates one type of harm that a linked site owner perceived to resul ...

Times’ headlines from a single Times newspaper as a basis for News’ links to the Times website might also constitute an infringe ...

Absent the “framing” by Defendants described above, someone wishing to view the content of Plaintiffs’ sites would, upon accessi ...

which asserted claims for copyright and trademark infringement, as well as for unfair competition based on various common law an ...

to the site; and (iii) that Microsoft’s presentation of information about Ticketmaster on its Seattle Sidewalk site was commerci ...

led to a Swedish university website where two allegedly infringing photographs of actress Elizabeth Taylor owned by the plaintif ...

websites on which the Handbook was available, nor that the defendants had induced the operators of those websites to post the Ha ...

on its own, it provided information as to where and how tickets that it did not sell could be purchased and a link that would ta ...

v. Connectix Corp.,^3066 which the district court characterized as holding that copying for reverse engineering to obtain non-pr ...

through the use of spiders, [Tickets.com] was not exploiting [Ticketmaster’s] creative labors in any way: its spiders gathered c ...

http://www.mp3board.com, which provided Internet users with resources to enable them to locate MP3 files from publicly available ...

contribution prong, the court noted that MP3Board styled itself as a “passive” tool. The court concluded, however, that there wa ...

issues of fact concerning whether MP3Board qualified as a “service provider” for purposes of the Section 512(d) safe harbor, the ...

displayed on the site. The defendant then modified its own web site so that small, low resolution thumbnail images of Batesville ...

The court cited the Intellectual Reserve case, discussed in Section III.D.6 above, for the proposition that, in extreme cases, e ...