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iPhone “Jailbreaking” is Fair Use
Copyright Office reviews the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), and issues opinions on how it should be interpreted. Copyright Office reviews DMCA only every three years, it is unlikely that Apple will be able to overturn this decision anytime soon. Every three years, the U.S. In releasing this opinion, the U.S. Image Source.
JetLawBlog
- Saturday, July 31, 2010
Suck it, El Jobso
by Jason Fischer A while back, attorneys for Apple concocted a creative argument for why jailbreaking your iPhone constituted an infringement of the copyrights in the device’s software, based on the non-circumvention provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (more familiarly known as the “DMCA&# ).
The Legal Satyricon
- Monday, July 26, 2010
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Court grants summary judgment for studios in Gary Fung/IsoHunt case; no DMCA safe harbor for inducement
Judge Wilson also soundly rejected Fung's DMCA safe harbor defense, and in the course broke some new ground. As far as I am aware, this is the first case to find that a DMCA safe harbor was unavailable because the defendants had "red flag" knowledge of its users' infringement. Tags: copyright DMCA Columbia v. 334 F.3d 2003)."
Copyrights & Campaigns
- Wednesday, December 23, 2009
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Who is this masked anti-DMCA activist?
Words fail me: Actually, if you can ignore the fact that you're being lectured to about the DMCA's notice-and-takedown provisions by some dude wearing a Mexican wrestling mask , you'll actually be impressed by this non-lawyer who calls himself the " Masked Analyst " and understands the DMCA better than most attorneys I know.
Copyrights & Campaigns
- Monday, April 20, 2009
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Court narrowly construes damages provision of DMCA Section 512(f); litigation fees not recoverable
A federal court this week narrowly construed the damages and attorneys' fees provisions of the DMCA section that provides a cause of action for sending knowingly false takedown notices. 8, 2007; UMG sent a takedown notice June 4; YouTube removed the video shortly thereafter; and Lenz filed a DMCA counternotice June 27. Fogerty v.
Copyrights & Campaigns
- Saturday, February 27, 2010
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Court grants summary judgment for Veoh in Universal Music Group copyright suit; says web video site protected by DMCA safe harbor
In a big win for web hosts, a federal court in Los Angeles has granted summary to Veoh in a copyright suit brought by several Universal Music Group entities, ruling that the web video host is protected by the safe harbor in Section 512(c) of the DMCA , and thus not liable for infringing uploads by its users. UMG v.
Copyrights & Campaigns
- Monday, September 14, 2009
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10 years of the DMCA
The Electronic Frontier Foundation covers “Unintended Consequences: 10 years under the DMCA&# here. Tags: DMCA It’s been 10 years today since President Clinton signed the Digital Millennium Copyright Act into law. Wired has put together a nice retrospective, available here. Public Knowledge’s take on the act is here.
Cyberlaw Central
- Tuesday, October 28, 2008
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Removal of Lessig video apparently NOT a DMCA takedown
It was inevitable that reports of a "DMCA takedown" allegedly issued by Warner Music Group on a video presentation by Larry Lessig would garner lots of attention. I've refrained from commenting so far, because I strongly suspected that initial reports of a "DMCA takedown" were inaccurate, and I wanted to wait until some true facts emerged.
Copyrights & Campaigns
- Thursday, April 30, 2009
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LA Times Tech Blog flubs the DMCA
But the Times gets the DMCA and YouTube's own policies wrong. What the DMCA actually says is that if YouTube wants to maintain its "safe harbor" from liability in a copyright suit by WMG, it must keep the video off the site for at least 10 business days following receipt of the counternotice from Chatham. posted the video to YouTube.
Copyrights & Campaigns
- Monday, January 26, 2009
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Class action copyright suit filed against Scribd; is filtering an act of infringement?
First, Each time Scribd receives a DMCA-compliant takedown request from a copyright holder, we quickly remove the unauthorized document and add a unique reference file corresponding to that document to our copyright database, deleting previously-uploaded copies of the same work identified by the system. Tags: copyright DMCA scribd
Copyrights & Campaigns
- Sunday, September 20, 2009
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When not to send a DMCA notice: the case of the racist Obama/Palin shoe-shine photo
One is that a "DMCA notice" is the universal means for addressing alleged web-based infringement. DMCA notice is a specific type of communication, appropriate only for combating specific types of infringement. Szukalski apparently wanted Frey to remove the altered version of the photo, so he sent what purports to be a DMCA notice.
Copyrights & Campaigns
- Saturday, January 9, 2010
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Animal rights group settles DMCA abuse suit with rodeo association; lesson: don't send takedown notices unless you control the copyright
An animal rights group called SHARK ("Showing Animals Respect and Kindness") has settled a lawsuit it brought against the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association, alleging that the PRCA had sent improper DMCA takedown notices to YouTube over 13 videos that SHARK supporters shot and were posted to the web by the organization.
Copyrights & Campaigns
- Thursday, February 12, 2009
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