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Supreme Court Affirms Availability of Back-Damages Under Copyright Discovery Rule

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2024) , resolving a circuit split over the availability of back-damages in copyright infringement cases. Nealy was incarcerated from 1989 to 2008 and again from 2012 to 2015 , and consequently was unaware that Butler had licensed their music without proper authorization. Nealy , No. 22-1078, 601 U.S. Despite 17 U.S.C. §

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Supreme Court Fixes One Problem with the Copyright Statute of Limitations, But Punts Another — Warner Chappell Music v. Nealy (Guest Blog Post)

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If the Supreme Court upholds the discovery rule for copyright cases, or simply declines to address it, the decision will leave copyright defendants exposed to very large awards for years of infringing conduct (as they have been everywhere but the Second Circuit). By Guest Blogger Tyler Ochoa Last week, the U.S. 3d 39 (2d Cir.

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IPSC Breakout Session #5 Platforms & Interfaces/IP Enforcement

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Piggyback on VC due diligence, valuation. The problem is that this system fell apart around 2008-2012 when smartphones came out. Access to market is now about having enough computers to run the software for all your users. Ideas are nothing without financing. Everything moved into the cloud.

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