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Copyright Law Preempting Contractual Terms of Use

Patently-O

The basic setup: Genius.com has lots of song lyrics, most of which were posted by fans (i.e., “crowdsourced”). The case ties in directly to lots of academic work on the topic. The pending Supreme Court petition in ML Genius v. Google focuses on an important issue of copyright preemption. Petition for Cert.

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Swedish court applies C-762/19 CV-Online Latvia in parking app battle

The IPKat

For more content aggregated on the topic of CV-Online Latvia, see here. The defendant claimed that the aggregator app worked based on crowdsourced information, that is information supplied by the user through the use of the parking apps, which was communicated to the aggregator app. Parkamo GmbH.