The German Federal Court of Justice ruled that embedded videos don't infringe copyright under German laws, however, it could still violate European laws. Webmasters will need to be much more careful about quoting content from online German...
For the second time, a federal court correctly rejected Viacom's lawsuit against YouTube. Google-owned video-sharing site YouTube has handed Viacom yet another loss in the latest round of a copyright infringement court case that has lasted six...
A U.S.federal court jury ruled that the company did not infringe on Oracle patents with its use of Java components in its Android platform. Oracle had previously won a partial victory on the matter of copyright infringement, though the jury...
Rosetta Stone’s trademark infringement lawsuit against Google, first filed in 2009 and dismissed by a Virginia court in August 2010, has been revived by a federal appeals court. The $1 billion Viacom-YouTube copyright case was reopened by an...
Adult website and magazine Perfect 10 has failed to prove to a federal appeals court that Google nearly drove it to bankruptcy by indexing and showing thumbnail images of Perfect 10’s nude female models in Google Image search results for free.
The answer is yes, he is still under supervision of the court, in the form of Federal probation. Before anyone asks, I do not know which federal investigative agency is still digging. Other activities remain under investigation by another federal...
Google's Street View mapping service infringes privacy, a Switzerland's Federal Administrative Court has ruled. The Italian court recently found Yahoo liable for contributory copyright infringement for listing links to websites that hosted a film.
This was in a federal court so could be applied anywhere in the U.S. A federal judge in South Carolina entered a judgment against Bright Builders Inc.on counts of contributory trademark infringement and unfair trade practices for allegedly...
The Federal Communications Commission will vote on whether to adopt rules to preserve net neutrality at its December 21st open meeting, according to a tentative agenda released just after midnight on Wednesday.
The section notice posted at the domains taken down for hosting torrents and a torrent search engine - Torrent-Finder.com goes on to state: "Willful copyright infringement is a federal crime that carries penalties for first time offenders of up to...
In its appeal, Rosetta Stone argues that the Virginia federal district court that found in Google's favor got it wrong on numerous counts. Late last week, the videos were taken off the site, under the guise of copyright infringement.
David Lieberman of USA TODAY says, "Entertainment companies may find it harder to keep movie and TV show clips from circulating for free online after a federal judge on Wednesday threw out Viacom's hotly contested $1 billion copyright infringement...
Judge Throws Out Copyright Infringement Suit Against Online Video Site Veoh Posted by Nathania Johnson Aug 28, 2008 A California federal court judge, Judge Howard Lloyd, has thrown out a copyright infringement suit against online video site Veoh.
A California federal court judge, Judge Howard Lloyd, has thrown out a copyright infringement suit against online video site Veoh. The judge's reasoning was that Veoh is protected by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act's (DMCA) safe harbor...
Google said YouTube was faithful to the requirements of the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act, saying the federal law was intended to protect companies like YouTube as long as they responded properly to content owners' claims of infringement.
It checks U.S.federal, state, and international trademark databases, and then searches the Web for trademark usage. Take into account that you will have higher processing fees than for copyright registration, along with legal consulting fees.
With a growing number of trademark infringement lawsuits against search engines, and a general ignorance by state and federal legislators on the true application of trademark law itself, few legal guidelines are currently in place for search...
So some states are trying to deal with it on their own, but it will likely not work because it's a federal issue that Congress needs to deal with. Back at the first legal session in 2002, I remember there being a panelist from the Federal Trade...
Registration of an online work for copyright is provided by the federal government at the U.S. The DMCA is fully enforceable by law, with civil suits able to be filed in federal court for both compensatory and punitive damages.
The full bench of the Federal Court, the country's second-highest court, has upheld a lower court ruling that Stephen Cooper, the operator of the Web site in question, as well as Comcen, the Internet service provider that hosted it, were guilty...
