Advanced Copyright Law on the Internet

The court therefore granted summary judgment to Yandex to that extent. The court then ruled that the case would proceed to trial ...

through which the work passes, the recipient, or some combination of the foregoing? Thus, the same issue of volition arises with ...

The court in Marobie-FL, Inc. v. National Association of Fire Equipment Distributors^649 ruled that the placement of three files ...

through the Kazaa network, that “[l]isting unauthorized copies of sound recordings using an online file-sharing system constitut ...

In United States v. Carani,^664 the court ruled that storing child pornography in a shared folder on the Kazaa peer-to-peer netw ...

Accordingly, the court concluded that the plaintiffs must be awarded statutory damages of $750 per infringed work.^672 In Columb ...

Napster a direct infringer of the plaintiffs’ exclusive distribution rights. The plaintiffs relied on Hotaling v. Church of Jesu ...

work on a computer network should not be viewed as sufficient to establish a copyright infringement.^688 Accordingly, the court ...

In Latin American Music Co. v. Archdiocese of San Juan,^695 although not a case involving online activity, the First Circuit hel ...

Accordingly, the court concluded that the defendants could not be liable for violating the plaintiffs’ distribution right unless ...

argument that Congress’ adoption of the WIPO Copyright Treaty, which contains an express right of “making available” a copyright ...

defendants and filed an action for copyright infringement. The plaintiffs filed a motion for summary judgment of infringement.^7 ...

must involve a ‘sale or other transfer of ownership’ or a ‘rental, lease, or lending’ of a copy of the work.”^722 Finally, the c ...

include offers to do the acts enumerated in Section 106(3) further indicated its intent that an actual distribution or dissemina ...

jury returned a verdict for $1.92 million. The court later reduced the award to $54,000 but granted the plaintiffs’ request for ...

Atlantic Recording Corp. v. Brennan, 2008 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 23801 at *3 (D. Conn. Feb. 13, 2008) (denying plaintiffs’ entry of d ...

Aereo’s hard drive. Aereo’s system then converted the signal from its original format to a different digital format that allowed ...

Some distributions will clearly be “public,” such as the posting of material on a Usenet newsgroup, and some will clearly not, s ...

The Right of Distribution Under the WIPO Treaties Article 6 of the WIPO Copyright Treaty provides that authors of literary and ...

The Right of Distribution Under WIPO Implementing Legislation (a) United States Legislation The DMCA does not contain any prov ...